Performance Marketing Manager

About the Company 

Essor, where brands take flight. We find digital challenger brands and supercharge them into iconic global legends that consumers love. As a next-generation consumer products platform, we leverage technology, industry expertise, and strategic collaborations to ignite growth and launch brands beyond expectations. 

Essor’s brand portfolio today includes a broad range of rapidly growing health & wellness and lifestyle brands like Boka, ZitSticka, Puracy, OTOTO Design, FreshCap, Iron Flask, Fullstar, numnum, Key Nutrients, and Viking Revolution that are sold on Amazon, Direct to Consumer channels, and through national retailers like Target, CVS, and Walmart. 

Essor and its predecessors have raised over $400 million from visionary investors such as The Raine Group, Premji Invest, Target Global, Declaration Partners, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Victory Park Capital, General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures. Essor was established in August 2024 after BRANDED’s acquisition of Heyday. BRANDED was originally founded in September 2020 by Pierre Poignant, Ben Kaminski and Alexis Lanternier. Heyday was originally founded in August 2020 by Sebastian Rymarz and Adam Gerchen.

About the Team:

The Marketing team scales our brands efficiently combining creative with data analytics, managing all marketing channels to drive brand growth. They continually build & execute a 360 marketing plan for both marketplace brands and direct-to-consumer brands.

About the Role:

As a Performance Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for boosting our biggest brands’ online presence with media buying campaigns that drive conversions via the different platforms and tools used by Essor. You will manage a team in order to strategize, create, and manage campaigns, monitor their performance, and optimize for results.

What you will do

• Manage Amazon DSP console and execute day-to-day DSP campaigns for different brands in our portfolio, maintaining budgets and recommending optimizations in support of product goals and innovations.
• Work with the tech team on optimization and automatisation of the channel to ensure best performance.
• Lead a team of media buying specialists, coordinate and prioritize their efforts across different channels and brands
• Coordinate the optimization of content creation for the different media buying channel 
• Perform daily reviews of performance and prepare reports to internal stakeholders.
• Develop end-to-end relationships with the different team members such as creative team, brand managers and work hand in hand to provide the best performance
• Analyze data, and provide insights and recommendations in order to inform the team members of required actions related to consumer funnels, particularly new customer acquisition.
• Identify the variables that can be optimized and own the execution of the optimization.
• Identify and implement internal process improvements, content, and product enhancement opportunities.
• Maintain collaborative relationships with peers and colleagues to contribute to the group’s achievement of goals, and to help foster a positive work environment.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and eCommerce tactics for advertising platforms.

Who you are:

• Minimum of 4-5 years experience in media buying management and execution, preferably in an agency. 
• Extensive and in-depth knowledge of the online media buying ecosystem for advertising purposes.
• Have experience managing Media buyers on different platforms
• In-depth knowledge of tools like Excel/Google sheet but also platforms such as Amazon advertising, Google ads, Meta Business Manager, programmatic DSPs or any other channel business manager.
• A strategic thinker with a proactive attitude and a problem-solving approach, foreseeing possible difficulties and opportunities within the accounts.
• Exceptional understanding of advanced targeting, planning, and insights capabilities available through paid platforms.
• Advanced understanding and experience of optimization levers available to ensure campaigns meet business goals.
• Effective time management and organizational skills with the ability to set priorities and achieve deadlines while dealing with multiple assignments.
• Well-organized and disciplined with regard to policy, procedure, and standards.
• Customer-focused and understanding of the customer experience.
• Good numerical skills; oral and written communication skills.
• Strong learning agility, able to learn quickly and apply knowledge to complex and changing work.
• Fluent in English.

We are seeking for people who: 

• Are owners. 
• Are continually raising the bar.  
• Are sincerely open-minded, and are willing to examine their strongest convictions with humility. 
• Nurture and embrace differing perspectives to make better decisions. 

What's in it for you?

• A supportive, diverse and global team with growth mindset
• A scaling company with great industry professionals
• A flexible (hybrid) working environment
• Great opportunities to get involved with exciting projects.

If you are ready to join our fast-paced company, apply below!

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, age, or national origin will be considered. No qualified applicants will be discriminated against on the basis of disability or protected veteran status.