Paid Media Manager

Ready to own the strategy? Lead the charge in paid media.

Salary: £40,000 per annum

Location: Manchester \& Lichfield (Flexible Hybrid Working)

Benefits: Private Health Cover \| 24 Days Holiday \+ Bank Holidays \| Employee of the Quarter Awards

This isn't just another paid media job.

This is your opportunity to define strategy, drive real commercial impact, and lead a talented team at one of the most forward\-thinking marketing agencies around. If you're a paid media expert who's ready to step into a leadership role \- or already there and looking for somewhere that truly values your expertise \- we want to hear from you.

What you'll actually be doing

You'll take the reins on paid media strategy across a portfolio of exciting clients, making the big calls on where investment goes, how channels work together, and what opportunities we should be seizing next. This isn't a role where you're executing someone else's plan \- you're the one building it.

Day to day, you'll be:

• Owning paid media strategy end\-to\-end \- from defining the approach and frameworks to ensuring everything ladders up to your clients' commercial goals


• Leading and mentoring a small team, helping them grow their skills, build confidence, and operate across multiple paid media channels


• Making smart budget decisions based on commercial priorities, marginal returns, and growth opportunities — you'll know where every pound is working hardest


• Integrating paid media into wider cross\-channel strategy, using your insight to shape the bigger marketing picture


• Introducing new opportunities and driving innovation across the discipline, including harnessing AI tools and workflows to work smarter and deliver better results


• Building strong senior client relationships, identifying growth opportunities, and playing a key role in new business pitches and proposals


• Communicating strategy clearly and persuasively to senior clients and internal stakeholders — you'll be the person in the room who brings clarity and confidence

You'll thrive here if you…

• Have deep, hands\-on expertise across paid media channels (PPC, paid social, and beyond)


• Are a natural leader who gets genuine satisfaction from developing people around you


• Think commercially \- you understand the link between media investment and business outcomes


• Love solving complex problems and making confident decisions under pressure


• Can hold a room with senior clients and inspire confidence at every level


• Are excited by AI and how it can transform the way teams work and deliver


• Want to be somewhere that recognises and rewards great work (hello, Employee of the Quarter! )

What we offer you

• £40,000 per annum


• 24 days holiday, increasing to plus bank holidays \- plus the ability to purchase 5 more days.


• Private health cover


• Flexible hybrid working


• Offices in both Manchester \& Lichfield


• Employee of the Quarter Awards


• The opportunity to lead and grow your own small team

Two great locations. Maximum flexibility.

With offices in Manchester and Lichfield and a genuinely flexible hybrid working model, you'll get the best of both worlds \- brilliant collaboration with your team when it counts, and the freedom to do your best work wherever that happens to be.

Sound like you?

If you're ready to lead, innovate, and make a real impact on clients' businesses \- we'd love to talk.

Apply now and tell us why you're the person to lead our Paid Media team.

We're committed to building an inclusive team and welcome applications from all backgrounds.

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