Digital Marketing Executive Programmatic & Paid Social in Hemel Hempstead

Salary: £35,000 to £40,000 base, 12% bonus and benefits

Location: Hemel Hempstead

Working setup: Hybrid (3 days in office) | Onsite parking

If you're happiest when you're deep in platforms, pulling levers that shift performance of digital campaigns, this one will feel like home. If you've maybe begun your career agency side working in a specialist programmatic executive remit, and your next step is either Snr Exec or Account Management, it will seem like more of the same, just with a higher degree of autonomy. This role will give you added strings to your bow, broadening your career as well as technical skills, giving you that opportunity to become a more rounded digital performance marketer.

This opportunity is with a major UK consumer brand in the leisure and hospitality space working as part of their performance marketing function. It's a small team, but one with a high degree of importance within their digital performance function, driving a lot of leads across the company's product categories.

The role in real terms:

• Programmatic campaign management: hands-on set up, running, monitoring, optimisation and reporting.
• Paid Social campaigns: learning opportunity with this role, including relevant platforms.
• Focus on driving high-quality traffic and strong outcomes.
• Planning, launching and optimising Programmatic activity with clear performance goals.
• Managing campaigns across key platforms including DV360, Campaign Manager, and Google Ads.
• Monitoring pacing, budgets and delivery, making smart changes based on data.
• Working with creative and brand stakeholders to ensure messaging, formats and assets drive results.
• Keeping reporting useful and actionable: performance updates, insights, learnings, and next steps.
• Supporting Paid Social activity where needed, with the role weighted towards Programmatic.
• Partnering with a senior channel lead, learning fast and contributing to how the channel evolves.

You’ll get:

• Proper ownership in Programmatic campaigns, not just assisting.
• A chance to become sharper on optimisation, testing and measurement.
• Exposure to wider commercial thinking, not just platform work.

You’ll like this role because it has momentum. You’re not being hired to maintain; you’re being hired to improve and grow the channels, surrounded by teams that care about creative quality and performance insight.

If you’re thinking longer-term, this role sets you up nicely for:

• Stepping into broader channel ownership.
• Developing stronger commercial confidence.
• Becoming a more rounded performance marketer (Paid Social & Programmatic is a strong combo).

Ideal background:

• A couple of years commercial experience with hands-on Programmatic campaign skills in a Consumer facing industry.
• Sound knowledge of DV360 (knowledge of Campaign Manager, and Google Ads is a plus).
• Strong with numbers and genuinely comfortable working with data day to day.
• Organised, detail-focused, and able to keep campaigns running cleanly.
• Confident using Excel and reporting performance clearly.
• Comfortable dealing with multiple stakeholders.

Bonus points if you’ve worked in a fast-paced consumer brand environment, or from a digital agency doing this for a client, or have a broader view of digital marketing beyond your core channels.

Working pattern & package:

• Hybrid working: 3 days a week in the office, 2 from home.
• £35,000 to £40,000 base, 12% bonus, Pension, Healthcare, Holiday discounts and additional benefits.
• Onsite parking available.

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK. You can share your LinkedIn profile or email me a CV; it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward. For a chat and more information please contact me on: Colin Doree, Recruiter | Blue Pelican, 01892 507122.