Employer Brand Paid Media Manager

Manchester, UK (Hybrid)

£37K/yr – £42K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own paid media delivery for recruitment marketing programs, turning performance data into practical fixes and clear recommendations while coordinating cross‑partner relationships and new-business support.

  • Paid media ownership: guide strategy, budget, and delivery across global client work.
  • Insight to impact: diagnose issues and turn data into actionable recommendations.
  • Stakeholder alignment: manage trust-based relationships with internal teams, clients, and partners.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Shape and own paid media delivery: consult, collaborate and assist on strategy and campaign delivery, managing budgets and timelines for global clients.
  • Turn data into a story: diagnose performance challenges and use the insight to direct the fix, turning results into clear, practical and relevant recommendations.
  • Manage multiple relationships: based on trust, create alignment and communicate with confidence across internal agency colleagues, clients and delivery partners.
  • Support business growth: collaborate on new business pitches and proposals.

Requirements

  • Ideally 2-3 years paid media experience in agency and recruitment marketing - to have a working knowledge of ATS and the data fluency to blend evidence with creative strategy.
  • A real knack for making the complex simple — translating paid media terminology, targeting logic and performance into plain, practical language.
  • Commercial confidence — managing budgets, building rationale and making informed, well-evidenced decisions.
  • A proactive, solutions-focused mindset, with an eye for spotting and capitalising on new opportunities.

Benefits

  • Hybrid flexible working
  • 33.5 days paid holiday per year (inclusive of bank/ public holidays)
  • Workplace pension
  • A supportive, warm and collaborative working environment that we are committed to and genuinely pride ourselves on
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Human Magic

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Fresh ideas, electric humans. We’re a global employer brand agency with soul.No matter how the world of work changes, one truth remains:Humans are the magic behind it.We inspire those humans. Tune into their frequency. Move businesses where they need to go.Now with HIYA (formerly TapIn) in the mix, we’re adding even more energy. Connecting brands with next-gen talent and making sparks fly.We build employer brands, recruitment marketing and creative that get under your skin.We are Human Magic.

Founded in 2004
Liverpool, England, GBR
54 employees (19 in marketing)
60% recommend to a friend
68% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Google Ads Budget
$28

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~54

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
12 (22% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$785.1K
Last Raise
$785.1K
Series Unknown, 13 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2013
    Series Unknown • $785.1K