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