Director, Paid Search

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$97K/yr – $140K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

This role leads the enterprise Search practice, shaping strategic vision, client advisory relationships, and cross-channel collaboration while driving team performance and scalable delivery.

  • Owns strategy and delivery of the Search practice with clear goals and governance.
  • Partners with vendors and stakeholders to align staffing, budgets, and client messaging.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Oversee enterprise-scale Search team, establishing overall strategic vision and driving tactical excellence, innovation and collaboration
  • Deeply understand client leadership stakeholders, priorities, and pain-points, proactively setting goals, sharing perspectives and approach-based solutions
  • Cultivate client leadership relationships both at the brand level and beyond, serving as a trusted advisor for ideation, escalation or action plan creation
  • Represent Search in broader client leadership conversations, actively contributing and/or leading communications
  • Create a culture of transparency, comradery, and accomplishment within their team, setting overarching objectives and celebrating accomplishments
  • Drive team process, financial accountability, training and best practice sharing
  • Establish and document client-level optimization, innovation and planning approaches, creating timelines, templates and scaled resources
  • Support career growth of those responsible for career growth of others, setting clear and consistent expectations by level across the team
  • Determine new ways to partner across Channels and integrate beyond Search
  • Represent capability in deliverable and fee scoping workstreams, advocating and rationalizing team's staffing needs and partnering across stakeholders to address

Requirements

  • Ability to multi-task and manage one’s time, demonstrating personal organization and meet deadlines while maintaining attention to detail
  • Ability to take and/or set initial direction, proactively provide proposed solutions and status updates
  • Ability to anticipate problems before they happen and creatively problem solve
  • Enterprise client management and account planning experience
  • Exhibits integrity, trust and investment in self-development
  • Adherence to agency procedures (timesheets, required trainings, 360 feedback, etc)
  • Proven ability to lead people and projects
  • Experience managing a team of 7+
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred, with 10+ years of direct Search campaign management
  • Healthcare industry knowledge a plus

Benefits

  • medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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Publicis Health Media

Publicis Health Media (PHM) is the market-leading media agency in the health category, providing unmatched DTC and HCP health, wellness and pharmaceutical expertise, innovation and unmatched clout.Our team of market makers works closely with an expansive set of consumer and HCP media partners, consistently identifying first-to-market opportunities that help our clients disrupt their categories and drive business growth. We believe that everyone deserves to have a positive healthcare experience. That healthcare marketing must go beyond the expected and the traditional. That we need to push the boundaries of media through data, content, commerce and creativity. Together we create powerful experiences that matter, driving better health outcomes for the people we serve.

Founded in 2012
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
800 employees (170 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$97K/yr – $140K/yr

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.1%
Direct
45.8%
Referral
7.3%
Social
14%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~800

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Director, Paid Search

Publicis Health Media · Chicago, IL · On-site