Digital Advertising Strategist - PPC | London, UK

Digital Advertising Strategist - PPC

Location : This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our London office (N1C 4AG).

Contract Type : Permanent

The purpose of the Digital Advertising Strategist is to drive quality traffic to our website in order to generate sales as well as best in class digital solutions for our customers. You will be owning Paid activity across DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland).

You will be supporting the Digital Advertising Manager in short- and long-term plans to deliver the most effective results in sales, traffic and other key performance indicators. As we are truly a global company you will be responsible for seamless communication with several stakeholders in these markets.

What you will be doing

• Full ownership of the Digital Advertising performance in DACH including PPC, Shopping and Display.
• Daily tasks such as performance checks, account optimisation and reporting.
• Flagging any budget or sales irregularities to your manager and proposing solutions and recover activities.
• Assist the manager with forecasting digital activities and analysis.
• Coordinating and leading tests agreed with the team, and ownership of implementation, optimisation and reporting.
• Get the chance to work on exciting projects such as Shopping Feed Optimisation, Templates, whilst cooperating with well-known vendors such as Google, Microsoft, BrainLabs and SMEC.
• Build relationship with relevant market stakeholders.
• Gather market/product insights and assist manager in incorporating them into Hub strategy.

What do I need to be successful?

If you have the following skills and experience, we want to hear from you:

• Proven track record in driving successful paid media campaigns
• Strong technical knowledge of Paid Advertising platforms (Google Ads, SA360, DV360 and Microsoft)
• Knowledge of Display activities
• Strong track record in managing large-sized budgets
• Extremely data driven including data analysis and using data to drive business results
• Commercially minded hence appreciating the values and challenges of running multi-million campaigns
• Good knowledge of Excel and MS suites
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Excellent numerical, communication and reporting skills
• Experience in Project Management desirable
• Passion for PPC and Digital Advertising in general
• Great team-player

We Are RS

We've been solving industry problems for over 80 years. We turn the 'what ifs' into the 'why nots', the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions to over 1.2 million customers globally, shipping a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. With over 800,000 stocked and 3 million unstocked products, we're a trusted partner to the world's leading industries.

We're looking for curious, driven, and empathetic professionals to join our journey. People who think differently, act with purpose, and want to make a real impact.

Rewards

Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.

Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
• Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
• Spotlight - our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values

Ready to Make Amazing Happen?

Join c. 9,000 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are - it all starts here.

Apply now and make RS a part of your journey.

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