Senior Paid Media Manager

Leeds, UK (Hybrid)

£35K/yr – £40K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own paid media performance across multiple client accounts, driving cross-channel teamwork and continuous testing to hit client KPIs and growth targets.

  • Growth Performance: Plan, deliver, and optimise campaigns across Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, and programmatic to improve outcomes.
  • Cross-Channel Orchestration: Ensure paid media integrates with Digital PR and Creative for cohesive strategy.
  • Offering & Thought Leadership: Feed client insights and market trends back into the Paid Media offering and agency content.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the planning, delivery, and optimisation of paid media campaigns across client accounts, ensuring activity aligns with client KPIs, performance targets, and wider business objectives
  • Take ownership of campaign performance, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement, testing, and growth
  • Ensure paid media activity integrates effectively with other channels (Digital PR, Creative), contributing to cohesive cross-channel strategy
  • Contribute to ongoing development of the Paid Media offering by sharing insights from client performance, testing, and market trends
  • Identify opportunities to expand Paid Media activity across existing clients, including upselling and cross-channel integration
  • Support new business activity by contributing expertise to pitches and proposals
  • Lead the execution of paid media activity for ICS-digital's own marketing, working closely with the marketing team to support lead generation and brand growth
  • Proactively contribute to the agency's marketing and thought leadership efforts, including blogs, articles and other content focused on Paid Media
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ICS-digital

ICS-digital is a global SEO, content, advertising, translation & digital PR agency working in over 100 languages, across over 90 markets in the most highly regulated and highly competitive industries.With 100+ staff based in the UK while also drawing on hundreds of writers, creatives and translators in local territories globally, our clients benefit from enormous reach and subject matter expertise. As a flexible and responsive agency, we have an unrivalled ability to deliver exceptional results on large-scale projects in the most competitive sectors, including finance, iGaming, law, health and international eCommerce and travel.

Founded in 2008
Leeds, England, GBR
185 employees (134 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
21.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
22.5%
Direct
66.4%
Referral
6.2%
Social
3%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~183

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
129 (70% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1