SEM Specialist (Remote)

London, UK (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own paid search execution with clear ROI ownership and cross-functional collaboration to drive performance.

  • Own campaign structuring, bidding, and keyword optimization to meet ROI targets.
  • Collaborate with Sales, Data, and Product to align on goals and opportunities to drive performance.
  • Monitor trends and run data-driven optimizations across Google and Bing campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Ensure campaigns deliver positive ROI to achieve desired results.
  • Manage multiple accounts, this will bring variety in the role, while challenging, as a result of a busy workload and tight deadlines.
  • Maintain and monitor bidding strategies, targeting settings, budgets, search terms and other important account metrics on existing and new categories.
  • Manage the creation of large keyword lists
  • Implement creative copy suggestions
  • Define campaign budgets, align campaign goals and ensure search campaigns meet best practice principles.
  • Provide recommendations and execute strategies for keyword and targeting opportunities, campaign structuring, targeting, DSA, Pmax and other areas of paid search to deliver performance goals.
  • Keep up to date with search engine and PPC industry trends and developments.
  • Utilize data driven analysis insights, identify opportunities, making recommendations for performance optimisations.
  • Collaborate with other stakeholders in the business (Sales, Data, Product) to achieve desired goals.

Requirements

  • Proven 1+ years of experience in Performance marketing, creating, managing and executing paid search campaigns on Google and Bing ads.
  • Proficiency in MS Excel and data manipulation.
  • Proven experience in using smart bidding strategies (tROAS, tCPA, maximize conversion, maximize conversion value).
  • Proficiency in managing moderate to large scale paid search accounts.
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Ability to think creatively
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Strong relationship building skills
  • Ability to think strategically and develop innovative paid search strategies
  • Ability to present information effectively to a range of audiences

Preferred

  • Google/Bing ads certification
  • Experience working with paid search tools to analyze and audit performance such as SEM Rush, Google search console
  • Proficiency in smart bidding strategies (tROAS, tCPA, maximize conversion, maximize conversion value)
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Founded in 1970
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
668 employees (240 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
85.5M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
66.7%
Direct
27.1%
Referral
3.7%
Social
2.1%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~668

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
222 (33% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
3.3 years