Paid Media Manager

Northwich, Warrington, UK (Hybrid)

£35K/yr – £42K/yrMid LevelPermanent

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own paid search and brand campaigns end to end, driving PPC performance across markets while staying within budgets and feeding pricing insights to Commercial teams.

  • PPC & Brand Growth: Lead a team to plan and optimize Search Ads 360 campaigns and online brand activity (video, display, paid social) to meet KPI targets.
  • Budget & Performance: Monitor market spend, pacing, and efficiency, surfacing opportunities for growth within budgets.
  • Cross-Functional Execution: Collaborate with Commercial and source market teams to inform priorities and improve strategy.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive the improved performance of our PPC accounts using Search Ads 360. You will lead a team to plan and create a variety of PPC campaigns and must proactively ensure all accounts are optimised in line with our objectives. You will be responsible for the delivery of our overall paid search strategy and ensuring key stakeholders are regularly updated on results.
  • Own our online brand awareness activity, including video, display and paid social campaigns. This will include campaign creation, ongoing optimisation and reporting.
  • Monitor the paid media spend for each market to ensure we remain in-line with set budgets and identify opportunities for growth and efficiency.
  • Contribute to the paid media development plan and ensure key projects are on track.
  • Work collaboratively with our Commercial teams, using trading data to inform priorities, and feed insights to them to inform our pricing strategies.
  • Work closely with our source market teams, improving our digital marketing knowledge and execution, aiming to exceed industry performance benchmarks.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in managing medium to large Search Ads 360 accounts – preferably holding Google Ads Certification.
  • Strong knowledge of GA4.
  • Genuine passion for the Search Industry.
  • Results driven.
  • Highly analytical with ability to spot opportunities and act on them.
  • Strong communicator with excellent presentation, written and verbal skills
  • Must work well alongside the Senior Paid Media Manager on collaborative tasks but also confident enough to work autonomously.
  • Must be highly organised, with the ability to work well under pressure/fast turnarounds.
  • Innovative with the desire to contribute ideas to help shape strategy.
  • Understanding of website performance metrics and tracking.
  • Knowledge of the wider Search landscape, with understanding of how PPC affects SEO.
  • Familiar with budget pacing on a monthly basis.
  • Understanding of first touch, last touch and DDA attribution.
  • Ability to work with a variety of digital professionals in order to implement and optimise campaigns.

Preferred

Benefits

  • Company pension
  • On-site parking
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ECG

ECG (European Camping Group) stands as the European leader in outdoor hospitality (HPA), providing an unrivalled, premium selection of 4/5* campsites in the continent’s most sought-after destinations.Our operations are driven by powerful and well-established tour operator brands (Homair, Eurocamp, and Roan), complemented by our portfolio of large-scale Spanish resorts operating under the Alannia brand.In peak season, ECG mobilizes over 7,000 employees to serve 450 camping destinations across 13 European countries. This network includes more than 110 directly managed campsites and over 350 partner establishments.ECG is actively involved in every facet of the HPA sector: from mobile home and bare pitch rental to residential mobile home sales, distribution platforms, and central reservation services for independent sites. Our unified mission remains: “An unforgettable holiday for everyone!”While the group’s customer base is mainly international (UK, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Poland, etc.), French customers represent a significant 40% of our total visitors.

Founded in 1989
Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FRA
511 employees (26 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
38.7%
Direct
39.8%
Referral
15.8%
Social
4.2%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~513

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
14 (3% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2025
    Private Equity
  • Apr 2018
    Private Equity

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