Digital Marketing Executive

Leeds, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive paid media across search and social to optimise performance and ROI for multiple brands; turn data into actionable optimisations while keeping budgets paced and creatives on-brand.

  • Own paid search across Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising, including Search, Display, and Performance Max.
  • Plan and execute paid social campaigns on Meta and LinkedIn with audience targeting and remarketing.
  • Research keywords, audiences, and competitors to inform strategy, monitor metrics, and report insights.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Building, managing and optimising paid search campaigns across Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising, including Search, Display and Performance Max
  • Planning and executing paid social campaigns on Meta and LinkedIn, using audience targeting, remarketing and lookalike strategies
  • Conducting keyword, audience and competitor research to inform campaign strategy
  • Monitoring and reporting on performance metrics such as CPC, CTR, CPA, ROAS and Quality Score, turning data into clear, actionable insights
  • Managing and pacing budgets to ensure spend is directed to the most effective campaigns
  • Contributing to ad copy and creative briefs that are on-brand, relevant and conversion-focused
  • Supporting campaign tracking and measurement, including pixels, tags and conversion tracking
  • Keeping up to date with platform changes, industry trends and paid media best practice

Requirements

  • 2+ years’ experience managing PPC campaigns (in-house or agency)
  • Hands-on experience with Google Ads and paid social platforms (Meta and/or LinkedIn)
  • Strong working knowledge of Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
  • Confident analysing performance data and translating it into optimisation actions
  • Strong copywriting skills for paid search and paid social ads
  • Solid understanding of audience segmentation, remarketing and the digital funnel
  • Comfortable managing multiple campaigns across different brands or business areas
  • Experience with conversion tracking, smart bidding and audience tools (e.g. Customer Match, Custom Audiences)

Benefits

  • Work at the heart of a creative, customer-led enterprise marketing function
  • Exposure to a diverse portfolio of brands and products across the automotive ecosystem
  • A culture that values innovation, continuous improvement and collaboration
  • The chance to develop your paid media expertise in a large, global organisation where marketing makes a real commercial impact
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Cox Automotive Europe

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We're transforming the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses vehicles.As the global industry leader in connected automotive services, our scale and expertise are unmatched, with 29,000+ employees across five continents.We simplify the complex, build trusted solutions for today, and innovate for the future, connecting every stage of the vehicle life cycle so manufacturers, fleet operators and retailers can focus on what they do best.In Europe, we help 18,000+ customers transform their business operations through market-leading remarketing, retail, funding and vehicle solutions.Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., a privately owned, Atlanta-based company with $22 billion in annual revenue.Our vehicle solutionsEV Battery Solutions • Manheim Inspection Services • Manheim Vehicle Services • MovexOur remarketing solutionsDealer Auction • Manheim Auction Services • Manheim Express • RMS Automotive Our funding solutionsNextGear CapitalOur retail solutionsCodeweavers • eVA Valuations & Appraisals

Rothwell, England, GBR
1.2K employees (34 in marketing)
47% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
22.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.9%
Direct
38.3%
Referral
10%
Social
7.3%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
34 (3% of company)

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