Adelphi Group
Paid Search Director
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Agency:
Omd
Job Function:
Media
Job Subfunction:
Performance Media
Job Description:
About the Role:
MG OMD are searching for an experienced PPC Account Director to join their award-winning team. This person will find themselves working closely with all the major search (PPC) platforms to deliver best-in-class advertising campaigns for some of the UK’s biggest household brands. An ability to establish strong working relationships with clients and media partners is crucial, as is the capacity to both collaborate with and challenge vendors on all aspects of search advertising. The Account Director role also has a particular focus on commercial acumen within the team.
The Account Director will be responsible for:
- Ensuring the implementation of planned strategies.
- Alignment with MG and client business goals.
- Adherence to commercial agreements.
- Leading and setting the strategic direction for search across their accounts.
- Mapping growth opportunities through the search maturity framework to incorporate the latest practices, products, and approved vendors.
As the senior lead across their accounts, they should feel comfortable advocating for the strategic direction to clients and stakeholders across the organization, ensuring that PPC aligns with other paid media activities. Ad hoc support for new business pitches may be required to support the agency's growth.
The Account Director will need to demonstrate strong skills in:
- Leadership and team management.
- Providing thought leadership and strategy.
- Managing relationships both internally and externally.
- Ensuring that processes are followed rigorously.
Team management will involve onboarding new team members, as well as fostering the overall growth and development of specialists within the team.
As an Account Director you should be 100% confident in your knowledge of paid search and comfortable recommending strategies & tactics to clients.
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You will have solid experience in integrated search campaign management and be able to ensure all work is delivered on time and to the high standard required.
An in-depth working knowledge of the Google Ads platform is a must (with experience using SA360 and other bid management platforms a bonus).
About the Agency:
MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft, trust, and performance at the heart of media planning and buying.
Since joining Omnicom network’s OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998, we have continued to retain our founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches, unprecedented insight, specialism, security, and transparency; helping our clients to use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative, effective, and award-winning work and campaigns that create difference that matters.
MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK. We are the most awarded media agency in both the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkbox’s TV Planning Awards and have this year been named as Agency of the Year in The Media Leader UK awards, Campaign Global awards, and Campaign UK awards.
With over 500 employees working across some of the UK’s leading brands including the John Lewis Partnership, Virgin Media O2, British Airways, Specsavers, HM Government, LNER, Sony Pictures, and Age UK; it is our people who ultimately make the award-winning difference.
True to our ethos, we work hard at creating a spirit and atmosphere that inspires our people to be considerate, honest, and professional whilst also being stimulating, imaginative, and inspirational.
We want people who are great to work with, fun to be with, and who genuinely care about each other, our clients, our media partners, and doing great work.
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In return, we provide an amazingly collaborative culture, where open communication and an unwavering commitment to diversity of thinking, diversity of background, and diversity of skillsets runs through everything we do. All backed up by the highest standards of training, development, and support in the industry; so much so, that we have attained IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) CPD Gold Accreditation for the 13th year running and maintained our CPD Platinum Accreditation for the 7th consecutive year, showcasing our commitment to continuous professional development. We were also featured in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in both 2023 and 2024. Our being named is completely based on the opinions and perspectives of our employees which makes the accolade all that more special.
Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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