About the Role:
Omnicom Media UK is seeking a Biddable Manager, Paid Search, with strong technical capability in major search buying platforms and a finger on the pulse of latest channel developments & product releases.
Sitting in OM UK’s central team, you’ll be a confident communicator, working closely with teams across OM UK agencies and Centres of Excellence to deliver best‑in‑class biddable campaigns for clients across the group. You will be comfortable working autonomously and collaborating with colleagues in other locations, supported by your local team.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a uniquely positioned and talented team in OM UK’s Manchester office, working across some of the world’s biggest brands.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage day to day deliverables across the team and drive ongoing test and learn innovation
- Manage response to briefs, coordinating input from across the biddable team and collaborating with wider channel teams as required
- Create media plans with clear rationale on media choices and budget allocations
- Ensure campaigns are built and activated on time, aligned with wider media plans and flighting
- Implement cross team processes and ensure team adherence to ensure campaign setup, budgets and pacing accuracy
- Analyse and optimise across live accounts daily to ensure performance is aligned to core KPIs, providing performance insights to the client and internal teams
- Coordinate and present weekly reports, PCAs and QBRs to agency teams and clients
- Facilitate the smooth administration of monthly financial reconciliation across the team
- Support the development and progression of a Senior Executive who reports into you
- Develop strong relationships with internal and external teams
- Work closely with media owners to drive forward feature adoption and media maturity
- Regularly share latest channel news and developments with the wider team
- Travel to London or Newcastle when necessary
About you:
- Experience managing paid search campaigns in an agency environment, ideally network agency or large independent
- Understanding of the broader digital spectrum, marketing mix & media planning process
- Experience line managing or mentoring junior team members
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills to effectively articulate and present to a wide range of stakeholders
- An analytical mind, able to work with large data sets to identify the drivers behind data trends
- Strong attention to detail to complete tasks in an accurate manner and spot key detail within large sets of qualitative and quantitative information
- Effective organisation skills, able to multi-task, plan and prioritise own & team workload concurrently
- Experience working within core paid search buying platforms – Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, SA360 (preferred)
- Experience working with ad serving platforms, ads trafficking processes, conversion tracking and tagging mechanisms
- Understanding of on-site analytics and platforms – GA4, Adobe Analytics
About the Agency:
Omnicom Media UK (OMG UK) is the media division of Omnicom Group Inc., headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and Newcastle. OMG UK exists to power its four UK agencies – OMD UK, MG OMD, PHD UK, and Hearts & Science. The four agencies have open access to OMG UK’s Centres of Excellence which provide market-leading capabilities across Digital Marketing, Creative Solutions, Investment and Futures.
OMG UK agencies are holders of numerous Agency and Network of the Year accolades, alongside multiple awards at the Global Festival of Media Awards, Cannes Lions, The Drum Awards, and IPA Effectiveness Awards.
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Flexible Working
At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that’s in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.
We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.
Be Your Best
We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable, you can email us confidentially at [email protected] to let us know how we can support you.
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What We Do
OMG UK delivers transformational experiences for consumers, clients and talent. Powered by the Omni marketing orchestration system, OMG connects best-in-class capabilities that enable our full-service media agencies OMD, MG OMD, PHD and Hearts & Science to deliver more relevant and actionable consumer experiences, more productive and proactive client experiences, and more collaborative and rewarding talent experiences.
We are enormously proud of our Agency and Network of the Year accolades, including most recently, PHD named Adweek’s Global Media Agency of the Year, MG OMD named Thinkbox TV Planning Agency of the Year, and OMG Unite named Media Agency of the Year at the Leadership and Diversity Awards.
We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, diverse voices and minority communities are valued, heard and well represented, and where everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and fairness.
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