Paid Media Manager (Japanese/Korean Speaking)

London, UK (Hybrid)

£35K/yr – £42K/yrSenior Level2+ years exp

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end paid media delivery with a focus on performance, bidding discipline, and cross-channel coordination to drive client business results.

  • Own daily performance, bidding strategies, and automation to hit KPI targets across a portfolio of clients.
  • Define 90-day roadmaps and lead cross-channel planning and QBRs to align spend, creative testing, and growth opportunities with client goals.
  • Turn raw data into actionable recommendations and clearly communicate measurement impact, including simple lift tests and privacy-change considerations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Campaign Management & Technical Excellence: You'll own the daily performance and technical sophistication of your client portfolio.
  • Bidding & Optimisation: Independently manage and troubleshoot bidding strategies to hit agreed KPIs. Implement complex portfolio bidding and leverage CroudOS automation tools
  • Account Hygiene & Platform Expertise: Maintain "Best in Class" account hygiene. Stay ahead of technical platform shifts, extract maximum value from platform tools, and define what proactive maintenance looks like for your pod
  • Automation & Tools: Help identify manual, repetitive tasks within your accounts and proactively implement automated solutions (scripts/proprietary tech) to improve margins
  • Copy & Creative Strategy: Brief creative assets for campaigns. Use data to suggest high-impact creative pivots and lead the ongoing creative testing roadmap for your clients
  • Data, Measurement & Reporting: Elevate reporting from "what happened" to "what we should do next"
  • Data Analysis: Transform raw data into actionable insights that actively change the direction of an account, whilst tracking business KPIs
  • Measurement & Incrementality: Explain the impact of privacy changes to clients. Implement and report on simple lift/AB tests, incrementality tests, helping work to get clients bought into advanced measurement models
  • Strategic Planning & Account Development: Roadmap Ownership: Build, audit, and execute 90-day roadmaps that align closely with client business goals. Help lead & support Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs)
  • Cross-Channel Integration: Help build integrated Search and Social Media plans. Coordinate cross-channel budgets and contribute to internal cross-channel syncs to ensure strategy is cohesive

Requirements

  • Degree-level education or equivalent/relevant work experience
  • Native speaker of Japanese or Korean
  • Demonstrable passion, experience and knowledge of Paid Media platforms (including PPC and/or Paid Social), minimum 1-2 years of experience in Paid Search, specifically across Search Engines (Google, Microsoft etc.)
  • Experience and knowledge of local Search Engines (Yahoo! Japan, Naver, Kakao etc.) would be an advantage
  • Strong Microsoft Office/Google Workspace skills which must include Excel/Google Sheets, Word/Google Docs and PowerPoint/Google Slides
  • Proven track record of working to and meeting deadlines and able to deliver under pressure
  • Proven time management skills, strong project management skills, experience and the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
  • Proven ability to think critically and creatively, with an impeccable attention to detail
  • Proactive approach to ways of working and problem solving, with the confidence to question the norm
  • Strong communication & presentation skills
  • Thrives working in a team setting
  • Mathematically minded and comfortable working with large numbers

Preferred

  • Experience with local Search Engines (Yahoo! Japan, Naver, Kakao) would be an advantage
  • Native speaker of Japanese or Korean

Benefits

  • Sabbatical: Paid sabbatical at 7 years with an option to take it unpaid at 5 years
  • 25 days holiday a year
  • Discretionary annual performance based incentive
  • Sale commission
  • Recruitment referrals bonus
  • Health & Wellbeing contribution
  • 2 Recharge Days each holiday year
  • Ride to Work scheme
  • Railcard
  • Season Ticket loan
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We're an independent global media, creative, and data agency helping our clients make their next best move.We help brands unlock growth with a Return on Intelligence - applying innovative intelligence across brand strategy, integrated media, social, creative, and data. In a world where agility is essential and not all returns are created equal, we bring transparency, speed, and incrementality-focused measurement to fuel growth and unlock true value.Founded in 2011 with the mission to reinvent the agency model, we combine 600+ in-house digital experts with a global, on-demand network of 2,900 marketing specialists. This agile, scalable model gives us more time to really understand our clients’ businesses, and deliver truly incremental growth.Croud has recently acquired Vert Digital, an Atlanta-based digital marketing agency, and Metageni, an analytics specialist, having previously acquired leading social-first agency Born Social, Croud Luxe (formerly VERB Brands), and impakt Advisors.Croud is proud to partner with leading global brands including Audible, IWG, Frasers Group, Nespresso, and Prime Video, alongside Born Social’s impressive client list which includes Ford, Barclays and Diageo (Guinness).Contact the team at partnerships@croud.com for a chat, to set up an intro or any other further information.We are always looking for the very best talent, so if you're interested in working for Croud please check out careers.croud.com

Founded in 2011
London, England, GBR
741 employees (305 in marketing)
67% recommend to a friend
66% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
60.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.3%
Direct
34.3%
Referral
6.3%
Social
5.8%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~742

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
288 (39% of company)
Median Career Experience
10.5 years
Median Tenure
3.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
8

Funding

Total Funding
$38.5M
Last Raise
$38.5M
Private Equity, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2019
    Private Equity • $38.5M

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