PPC Specialist

PPC Specialist | Eighty Eight Digital - Blisworth, Northampton

• £32,000 to £36,000 (depending on experience)
• Permanent, full-time, 37.5 hours a week
• Office-based, set in the Northamptonshire countryside
• Reporting to the Operations Director
• Working closely with SEO and web specialists

About the job

At Eighty Eight Digital, we're looking for a PPC Specialist to take full ownership of paid media. Right now it’s a one-person department, and that’s deliberate. We want someone with 3 or more years of hands-on PPC experience who’s ready to own the strategy, not just execute someone else’s.

We need an ambitious individual looking for the next step into leading a department rather than just running campaigns. The role comprises of mainly traditional PPC and Google Ads, with a number of Paid Social clients also in the mix. We're lucky enough to work across a variety of industries, from skincare and beauty to car leasing, 3D printing and private schools. So, it's rare that two days will ever look the same.

Additional to this, you'll often work alongside our SEO Specialists on accounts that require a cohesive digital strategy. So, being a collaboratively minded individual is an absolute necessity.

Aims

This role exists to do three things:

• Own paid media properly, so our clients get a specialist who’s actively not just managing, but growing, their accounts.
• Reporting performance, monthly, to clients in a jargon-light and easy to understand way. Spotting the trends before they do, and acting on them.
• Build the department, and become the one who leads it. A true opportunity to shape how we do PPC here, from the SOPs and processes you put in place through to a say in who we hire as the team grows.

The day-to-day

• Strategy, campaign builds and budget setting across Search, Shopping, Pmax and lead generation accounts. Also, experience with programmatic is also a plus.
• Running Meta paid social campaigns alongside your search ads work. Knowledge of LinkedIn, Reddit and Pinterest ads would also be hugely beneficial.
• Liaising with our Head of Web to shape landing pages that actually convert. We need somebody with an eye for UX and conversion paths.
• Sitting down with our SEO team regularly to align paid and organic rather than letting them run in isolation
• Monthly and quarterly reporting that explains the “why,” not just the numbers, using Google Ads, GA4 and other tools.
• Keeping on top of platform changes across Google and Meta before they catch you out.
• Helping put the processes and documentation in place that a growing department will run on.
• Working with the Operations Director on what the team looks like as it scales, and who joins it

The package

£34,000 to £36,000, depending on experience. On top of that:

• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holiday
• A paid charity day each year
• Company pension
• Free on-site parking
• Free gym membership
• Private medical insurance (BUPA) after one year’s service
• Annual salary reviews, with regular check-ins on your progression into the department lead role
• Mentoring and support while you build the function, and genuine input into what it becomes
• Being a part of an office culture we're genuinely proud to have curated

You’ll be based at our office in Blisworth, Northampton. We’re a transparent, service-first agency that cares about real results for clients, not just what looks good in a deck, and we’re looking for someone who wants to build something here, not just fill a seat.

How to apply

Send your CV and a short covering note to [email protected] telling us why you’re ready to own PPC here.

• Please note, we’re not looking to use a recruitment agency to fill this role - so please refrain from reaching out if you’re a recruitment consultant. Thank you. You'll no doubt ignore this bit won't you, pesky recruiters, but oh well - worth a try eh.

Pay: £32,000.00-£36,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Free parking
• Gym membership
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Application question(s):

• Do you have any experience working for, or with, digital marketing agencies?
• Which area of PPC have you seen the biggest impact whilst using?

Experience:

• Google Ads: 2 years (preferred)
• Facebook Advertising: 2 years (preferred)

Work Location: In person