Senior Paid Media Manager

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own paid media operations and governance across PPC, paid social, and programmatic with a clear eye on ROI, agency alignment, and internal capability building.

  • Growth Analytics, Channel Ownership, and Process: monitor ROI/ROAS, uphold KPIs, and drive agency audits and playbooks.
  • Agency & Partner Collaboration: liaise with LinkedIn/Meta and media partners to optimize spend, standardize frameworks, and accelerate campaign innovation.
  • Capability Development: mentor teams, codify best practices, and roll out group-wide standards for campaign architecture and optimization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the VP Performance Marketing to implement the vision and strategic role of paid media across One Informa.
  • Assist in building and evolving group-wide frameworks for PPC, paid social, and programmatic campaigns.
  • Support the establishment of standards and best practices to drive consistency, performance, and innovation across teams and agencies.
  • Partner with business and marketing leaders to translate commercial objectives into actionable paid media strategies.
  • Where required, deep dive into specific campaigns to recommend improvements and best practice
  • Monitor campaign performance, optimize for ROI/ROAS, and ensure adherence to established KPIs and benchmarks.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to ensure campaigns are effectively structured, targeted, and optimized for maximum impact.
  • Act as the primary liaison between One Informa and media agencies, ensuring alignment with defined scopes, performance frameworks, and review cadences.
  • Support the evaluation, onboarding, and ongoing management of media agencies across paid search, paid social, and programmatic channels.
  • Drive accountability and performance improvement through regular agency reviews and audits.

Requirements

  • Has proven expertise: With 5+ years of experience in paid media management, you have a strong track record of driving performance across PPC, paid social, and programmatic channels.
  • Is detail-oriented: You excel at campaign execution, optimization, and reporting, ensuring every detail aligns with strategic goals.
  • Thrives in collaboration: You work effectively with internal teams, agencies, and channel partners to deliver measurable results.
  • Is results-driven: You focus on metrics that matter, ensuring campaigns deliver ROI and align with business objectives.
  • Is adaptable and innovative: You stay ahead of industry trends, challenge assumptions, and push boundaries to improve performance.
  • Communicates effectively: Your ability to build trust and influence stakeholders ensures alignment and success across teams.

Benefits

  • Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
  • Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
  • Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
  • Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
  • A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover
  • A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
  • Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more
  • Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
  • As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world
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Informa

Informa champions specialists working in academic and business-to-business markets, connecting people with knowledge to help them learn more, know more and do more. We’re a leading international events, digital services and academic knowledge business, headquartered in the UK and a member of the UK’s FTSE 100 group of public companies. We’re also home to a fantastic, inclusive community of over 14,000 colleagues across 30 countries, and a place where our colleagues have the freedom and flexibility to bring ideas to life, do work that makes a real impact and discover opportunities to grow.Our businesses include Informa Markets, Informa TechTarget, Informa Connect, Informa Festivals and Taylor & Francis, but if you work in one of the specialist markets we serve, you might also know us through our brands. In Pharma, Medical and Biotech, that includes WHX Dubai, CPHI and EBD; in Tech, Enterprise Connect, AI Summit, Black Hat and GDC; in Natural Products, New Hope Network, Vitafoods and Natural Products Expo; in Beauty & Aesthetics, China Beauty Expo and Premier Beauty; in Finance, SuperReturn International, Money20/20, Finovate and IGM; in Research and Advanced Learning, Routledge and F1000; and many more brands in more markets too.

Founded in 1924
London, England, GBR
8.9K employees (2,489 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
410.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.5%
Direct
55.3%
Referral
7.6%
Social
1.2%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~8.9K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,206 (25% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
8.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

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