PPC Account Director

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced paid search professional to join our growing Digital team as PPC Account Director, leading paid search strategy across a portfolio of clients and pushing an innovative, future-facing approach to the channel.

You'll also manage a PPC Account Manager and up to two PPC Executives, setting the standard for delivery and helping them grow into the next stage of their careers.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading the development of intelligent, innovative paid search strategy across clients spanning different verticals and budget levels
• Owning delivery of assigned paid search accounts, meeting and exceeding KPIs, and always pushing for more with a growth mindset
• Getting under the skin of each client's business to proactively identify opportunities for growth and efficiency, overseeing search development plans that give every account a genuine long-term vision
• Partnering with Planning Directors to grow client spend and develop accounts, leading the channel testing roadmap, and connecting search strategy to clients' broader business objectives
• Managing, mentoring and developing the junior members of your team
• Working closely with your fellow PPC Account Director to share insights and learnings, challenge each other's thinking, and build a best-in-class search team together
• Challenging clients, briefs, and yourself to ensure relationships stay mutually rewarding and media output stays first-class
• Compiling campaign reviews and forward-looking recommendations: the "so what?" and the "so what now?"
• Staying on top of (and genuinely caring about) the latest industry developments and technology, and being recognised as a paid search thought leader within the agency

About You

• 5+ years' relevant experience across Google Ads, Google Analytics and SA360
• Strong experience with Prisma or a similar media buying platform
• Proven experience managing and developing a team
• Excellent client management skills, backed by strong written and verbal communication
• An analytical mindset, comfortable manipulating large and complex data sets to find the story in the numbers
• Able to multi-task and oversee successful delivery across numerous campaigns running simultaneously to tight deadlines
• An omnichannel outlook, a solid understanding of the wider digital media landscape and where paid search fits within it
• A proactive, solutions-focused and ambitious approach, a self-starter who's happy to go the extra mile

Benefits

• Hybrid working: 3 days in the office
• Annual bonus, subject to company and personal performance
• Study leave for professional qualifications
• Annual agency conference abroad
• Company pension, health insurance and death-in-service cover
• 1 paid day per year to volunteer with a charity of your choice
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to the wider MSQ Global team and offices
• Free bar every Thursday