Head of Paid Media

You’re a Head of Paid Media leading an agency team here in the UK. So what’s your next challenge?

How about moving to Australia, inheriting a small team and growing the paid media service for a remote working, independent agency with strong roots across APAC? 

My client is a technical performance marketing agency, solving the toughest of problems in marketing. They bring engineering precision to complex marketing situations to deliver scalable performance that generates an exponential return on investment for brands across the world. With an HQ in Australia and roots across the APAC region, we’re hiring a Head of Paid Media to join their Australian team.

First recruiting for this agency nearly 10 years ago, you can read a story about one of our early projects hiring their then Client Services Director. Like this vacancy, we relocated him and his family from their home in Wales to Australia! Promoted to CEO nearly 3 years ago, Paul is an excellent example of the company culture and the opportunities this agency has for their team. 

With a code of ethics, trust underpins everything. They build long-term relationships with their partners, and have the best interest of their clients at heart. They also invest in the success of each and every team member, many of whom are remote workers.  We’re ready to relocate an experienced Head of Paid Media to Australia to lead and drive this agency’s Paid Media service. 

THE ROLE

Reporting to the Digital Director, as Head of Paid Media you’ll be responsible for the financial (including P&L of service), strategic, technical, operational and people management of the Paid Media dept., inheriting an immediate team of 2 Paid Media Specialists and 2-3 freelancers to manage and develop. Drawing on your excellent leadership attributes you’ll enhance client relationships, create efficiencies for the department’s operation, drive profitability, and serve as the technical authority for the stream.

Steering the technical delivery of services & client management with confidence, you’ll develop digital strategies focused on growing client businesses using a range of channels working together in coherent strategies. Your passion for staying abreast of changes in the market will mean you enjoy leveraging this agency’s dynamic environment to create new opportunities. Whether this is for developing/upgrading processes, templates or solutions or in pitches to support the sales team in winning new account and growth opportunities. You’ll be competent in selling to existing clients where appropriate too. You’ll appreciate the high standard the agency requires of services and consistently ensure operations comply with all applicable laws.

Leading the team, you’ll create and evolve a collaborative culture that is solution-focused and performance-driven. Leading by example, you’ll take pride in delivering high-quality services to clients. Leaders in this agency require intentionality when approaching work practices and professional relationships, proactively supporting employees to align with the business’ guiding principles and values. You’ll focus on elevating the employee experience at all stages of the lifecycle. Ensuring teams are engaged and have the right training and setup to drive positive results for the agency and its clients. This will include keeping teams updated regarding strategic developments and operational targets, ensuring teams have the resources, systems, support, and knowledge to achieve goals.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL

ESSENTIAL:

• At least 7 years of platform experience executing high-performing Google Ads, Meta and LinkedIn campaigns, with at least 4 of those years in an agency environment
• Valid certification in Google Ads (to date).
• At least 1 year of experience in a leadership role or similar position
• Experience in managing a full portfolio of clients (of at least 5 accounts) across platforms, with 2+ enterprise clients (clients with yearly revenue of more than AUD $10M /GBP £5M).
• Experience in designing and executing paid strategies.

• Needs to be a self-starter who strives to learn, rolls up your sleeves to actively pursue problems, and is motivated to achieve outcomes with hands-on execution and capable management.
• Eager to deliver business results and strives to be accountable and provide visibility to the broader team around outcome.

DESIRED:

• 2+ years of platform experience in Pinterest, Tiktok and Programmatic (specifically media buying),
• Experience working in remote teams and/or freelancing.

LOCATION

Long before covid, this team challenged industry norms by offering a 100% remote working environment, bringing together the sharpest digital minds, regardless of location. They’ve enjoyed it promoting their sustainable organisational growth, without team members sacrificing their individual well-being. The team take pride in cultivating an environment where work and life harmoniously intertwine, and have clearly distinguished between their culture of hiring remote workers, rather than digital nomads. Remote working being seen as the generally more stable location of work/work from home and digital nomads who desire more frequent travel and change of location. Ideally, as Head of Paid Media you will join the majority of the team in Australia and utilise the company relocation support from where you reside to Australia. It is possible we will consider you being outside of Australia, for example in Asia but you MUST live within GMT +8 to GMT+12 timezone to coincide with working hours of the core team. 

BENEFITS

• Depending on experience remuneration is upto $120k AUD + Superannuation (retirement fund). With an exchange rate from the time of publishing this job advert, this is equivalent to e £70k GBP.
• Australian work visa sponsorship support for British passport holders, and alternate nationalities will be considered on a case-by-case basis and will support for your relocation to Australia (please note there is the caveat of successfully completing your probation period).
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working (work from home)
• Company funded annual global team get together, workshops and team bonding

 If you’d love the opportunity to take your Paid Media agency expertise to Australia, and would thrive leading a team delivering exceptional industry work…. this is that rare opportunity to be sponsored to make the move down under!  To apply, please use the contact form below or email your CV to Natasha via jobs@clockworktalent.com quoting job reference 1001517.

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