Paid Media Manager

7 months ago


Bury, United Kingdom JD Sports Full time

As a Paid Media Manager, you be a part of the management team within the Paid Media Department. You will lead, inspire, and develop Senior Executives, Executives & Assistants in our market-leading in-house Paid Media team. You will spearhead best-in-class Paid Media implementation across focussing on Paid Search & Shopping, as well as Paid Social & Digital Display.

Your role will e to lead the strategy and account direction, predominantly working with our tier 1 partners such as Google, YouTube, Bing, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest as well as emerging platforms and opportunities.

You must be able to develop our talented junior team (. Assistants & Executives) and mentor our next management leaders (Senior Executives). You will also manage key stakeholders across the business, as well as integrating with other parts of the Multi-Channel team such as Organic Search, Affiliates & Partnerships, Content, as well as CRO and Analytics teams.

·Job Title – Paid Media Manager

·Location – Bury, BL9 8RR

·Working rota – Monday to Friday

·Working hours – 40hrs

What You'll Be Doing: 

Search and/or Paid Social platforms and concepts. Manage, own, and constantly find ways of improving the workflow of your team. Responsible for quality of all work output from your team. Regularly review team processes (reports, presentations, tools for efficiency. Complete internal audits across your accounts & continually evolve. Oversee the end to end Implementation including set-up, management, analytics, tracking, reporting of Paid Search and/or Paid Social accounts. Be an expert in all relevant 3rd party tools & technology. Build & maintain project plans outlining all key tasks for your accounts. Continually review & suggest changes to tactics based on current performance and impact on campaign goals & KPIs. Accurately forecast potential delivery for your accounts. Help develop the Paid Media department by being innovative and sharing knowledge and processes. Develop a close working relationship with external suppliers such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter etc.

What We're Looking For:

Ability to identify issues and be pro-active in providing solutions. A high degree of numeracy and literacy. Ability to work under pressure across a high level of Paid Search and/or Paid Social accounts. Effective in team management. Highly literate in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Office365, Google Docs. Effective communication skills. Effective presentation skills. Effective time management skills with the ability to multi-task. A high attention to detail. Experience in managing sophisticated Paid Search & Shopping and/or Paid Social campaigns. In depth knowledge of Paid Media, from an implementation perspective. Google Analytics. An appreciation of the Paid Media ecosystem (. how Paid Search influences Paid Social).

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.


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