Account Manager, Search

Manchester, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

Job Summary

Owns alignment of paid search delivery by leading a team and coordinating client workstreams, balancing hands-on campaign optimization with coaching, stakeholder management, and process improvements to drive client outcomes.

  • Lead a paid search team to deliver campaigns, reporting, and best-practice adherence while developing talent and workflows.
  • Own client and partner relationships, surfacing strategic issues and opportunities to improve performance and business impact.
  • Embed operational discipline and a test/learn mindset to optimize processes and revenue opportunities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Line Management: - Manage one or several team members, overseeing their work and development to successfully execute client deliverables. Provide coaching and support, ensuring workloads are effectively managed.
  • Campaign Management: - Effectively manage your and your team’s designated search accounts, ensuring ongoing and timely optimization and proactively identifying tactical and strategic opportunities and forecasting.
  • Campaign Management: - Take responsibility for wider client or team deliverables (such as performance commentary or weekly reporting) and guide team members on effective execution.
  • Campaign Management: - Ensure adherence to Paid Search channel best practices for clients and contribute to the development of search best practice.
  • Client & Partner Management: - Develop strong relationships with colleagues supporting campaign delivery, your client, and key suppliers, leading team communications and building rapport to become a trusted advisor.
  • Client & Partner Management: - Demonstrate strong knowledge of the client sector/industry, identifying strategic issues and raising questions to help stakeholders explore and understand their wider business challenges.
  • People Development: - Act as a motivational manager, leading by example while encouraging and coaching team members, providing feedback and recognition for a job well done.
  • People Development: - Delegate and manage workloads across team members, whilst supporting and educating planning teams on the benefits and purpose of paid search.
  • People Development: - Assist with the recruitment process for the immediate and wider team when required, attending interviews and acting as an ambassador for the team.
  • Operational Excellence: - Making full use of the technology available, implementing processes and practices that maximize operational efficiencies whilst identifying opportunities for process improvement, and providing recommendations.
  • Operational Excellence: - Takes ownership of issues when they arise and proactively suggests ways to resolve these and prevent them from happening in the future.
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WPP Media

Media is changing. So are we. We are WPP's global media collective, built for the AI era.We bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create innovative solutions that deliver unparalleled growth for brands - in every market, every day.

30K employees (6,827 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
159.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$9.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.3%
Direct
46.3%
Referral
10.7%
Social
5.7%
Paid
2.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~30.1K
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Account Manager, Search

WPP Media · Manchester, UK · Hybrid