Head of Paid Digital

Chesterfield, Derby, UK (Hybrid)

£50K/yr – £55K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Own paid digital strategy, profitability, and team leadership across multiple platforms with a focus on scalable, insight-driven growth.

  • Growth Governance: set the paid digital vision, roadmap, and best practices for planning, activation, and reporting.
  • Team & Stakeholder Leadership: mentor senior specialists, manage performance, and drive strategic pitches with cross-functional partners.
  • Platform Leadership: own strategies across Google, Meta, Bing, YouTube, TikTok and emerging platforms, driving ROI and platform testing.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Set and own the Paid Digital vision and roadmap aligned with CNS’s wider commercial strategy.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop the Paid Media team, including performance management, succession planning, and clear progression frameworks.
  • Act as the senior strategic lead for Paid Digital across Google, Meta, Bing, TikTok, YouTube, and emerging platforms.
  • Translate client business objectives into scalable, insight-led paid media strategies that drive growth and ROI.
  • Accountable for departmental profitability in collaboration with the Digital Commercial Director
  • Report on departmental forecasting, utilisation, and resourcing.
  • Play a key role in new business pitches, audits, and strategic upsell opportunities.
  • Establish, refine, and enforce best-practice processes for planning, activation, optimisation, and reporting.
  • Champion innovation by testing new platforms, betas, automation, and partnerships.
  • Collaborate closely with senior stakeholders across Digital, Client Services, and Commercial teams.
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CNS Media Ltd

CNS Media is an independent, award-winning, full-service marketing agency, combining exceptional media buying power with digital and creative expertise.💡From Media, Outdoor and Digital, to SEO, Social and Creative, commercially-focused results are at the heart of everything we do. Free from network bias, we focus on what works best for our clients, using data-led insight, connected thinking and real results to connect brands with the right audience, in the right place, at the right time.Working alongside our media and digital teams is Fork The Waffle, our in-house creative production team, creating standout campaigns designed to perform across every channel.With CNS Media, you’ll get independent imagination, commercially-focused results, and full-service delivery. 🎯

Founded in 2006
Chesterfield, England, GBR
40 employees (17 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
13.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
47.3%
Direct
41.4%
Referral
7.8%
Social
2.2%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~40

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
12 (30% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2