Manager, Search Marketing

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$75K/yr – $108K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 11 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the day-to-day client relationship and lead program strategy, analytics, and team development while ensuring campaigns deliver on client goals and collaborate across internal and external stakeholders.

  • Lead client strategy and day-to-day management
  • Coach analysts and drive best practices across media activations
  • Coordinate forecasting, budgeting, and cross-team collaboration

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serving as primary contact for day-to-day clients
  • Spearheading the development of program strategies and analyses for clients (e.g., target audience recommendation, geographic targeting, timing/scheduling strategy)
  • Overseeing day-to-day internal team’s work on bid strategy optimization and testing
  • Establishing and driving paid search best practices for team to assimilate across tactics and activations
  • Maintaining a level of quality assurance and holding the team accountable for delivering campaigns and executions with precision
  • Writing and delivering media strategies, and overseeing the translation of these strategies into final media recommendations
  • Ensuring that media deliverables meet and align with client goals and objectives
  • Prioritizing teamwork, delegating responsibilities, and implementing a task management system that is universally accepted and applied
  • Developing team for advancement through positive mentoring, providing critical feedback, and exuding a genuine interest in professional success of others
  • Ensuring that analysts are effectively developing and optimizing campaigns for added value

Requirements

  • A four-year degree and 5 to 7 years of digital media experience, 4+ years of SEM experience
  • Prior experience managing direct report(s) preferred
  • Strong familiarity with the digital environment and a clear understanding of media planning and buying process (multi-channel knowledge and DoubleClick search expertise preferred)
  • Strong understanding of media research tools – you know their strengths/weaknesses, and when and how to effectively use them
  • Keen attention to detail and an analytical approach to achieving objective
  • Solid quantitative and research skills, and proven data interpretation capability
  • Fluency with Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel). Experience working with Tag Management Solutions, DMP, MTA and Site Analytics tools preferred
  • Excellent client presence and ability to lead discussions with internal and external leadership
  • Strong ability to understand client objectives and how they translate into search and media strategies
  • Stellar communication and presentation skills – you’re poised, articulate and convincing

Benefits

  • medical coverage
  • dental
  • vision
  • disability
  • 401K
  • parential and family care leave
  • family forming assistance
  • tuition reimbursement
  • flexible time off
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Founded in 1926 by Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, today Publicis Groupe is the second largest communications group in the world and a leader in marketing, communication, and digital business transformation, led by Arthur Sadoun, the third CEO in its history. Publicis Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Publicis Groupe is a privileged partner in its clients’ transformation to enhance personalisation at scale. The Groupe relies on ten expertise concentrated within four main activities: Communication, Media, Data and Technology. Through a unified and fluid organisation, its clients have a facilitated access to all its expertise in every market. Present in over 100 countries, Publicis Groupe employs around 103,000 professionals. Website: www.publicisgroupe.com X: @PublicisGroupe Instagram: @publicisgroupe YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/publicisgroupe Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/publicisgroupe

Founded in 1926
Paris, Ile de France, FR
34K employees (11,817 in marketing)
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$75K/yr – $108K/yr

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Total Funding
$1.4B
Last Raise
$1.4B
Post IPO Debt, 10 months ago

Funding History

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526.1K
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Search
33.4%
Direct
38.4%
Referral
11.8%
Social
15.8%
Paid
0.4%

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Manager, Search Marketing

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