Manager, Search Marketing

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$75K/yr – $108K/yrManager5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end paid search programs for clients, leading strategy development, bid optimization, and team leadership while ensuring alignment with client goals and measurable results.

  • Lead strategy development and analyses for target audiences, geography, and timing
  • Direct day-to-day bid optimization, testing, and QA across campaigns
  • Mentor and develop the team, manage forecasting/budgeting, and coordinate cross-functional efforts

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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Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V

Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through leading agency brands Dysrupt, Infinite Roar, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith, as well as global accelerator PMX; immersive experience group PMCI (inclusive of Picture Motion and RDL Worldwide); and access to integrated platform-based technologies and offerings from CJ, Epsilon and Influential. A key business solution of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40]), Publicis Media’s digital-first, data-driven global solutions deliver client value and drive growth in a platform-powered world. It is present in over 100 countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide.

London, England, United Kingdom
11K employees (3,008 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
526.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.4%
Direct
38.4%
Referral
11.8%
Social
15.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,719 (25% of company)
Median Career Experience
13.5 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
139