At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage paid media for clients, focusing on strategy, optimisation, and reporting.
- Company: A positive digital marketing agency in Essex with a close-knit team.
- Benefits: 36 days annual leave, private healthcare, MacBook, and early Friday finishes.
- Other info: Hybrid work model with regular team socials and excellent career growth.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make a real impact in digital marketing.
- Qualifications: Experience in Google Ads, paid social, e-commerce, and client management.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
We are a digital marketing agency based in Essex, doing positive digital marketing, for good. Honest work, real results, and a genuine commitment to the clients and people we work with since 2014. A close-knit team of specialists who care about excellent work, growing client businesses, and each other.
The Role
This is a hands-on performance role. You will manage paid media across a portfolio of clients, strategy, build, tracking, budget pacing, reporting, and client conversations. We need someone who can walk in and contribute from day one: proactive, rigorous, and always thinking ahead. Not someone who waits to be asked. We also want someone thinking about where paid media is heading, AI tools, privacy changes, server-side tracking, and how we keep delivering brilliant results in a more complex environment.
Paid search, paid social and e-commerce
- Own paid search and paid social strategy for a portfolio of clients, build, optimise, and report with a genuine focus on outcomes, not activity.
- Lead e-commerce campaigns including Google Shopping and Performance Max.
- Stay close to platform changes and bring proactive recommendations to clients.
Tracking, measurement and reporting
- Set up and maintain GA4, GTM, Consent Mode, and measurement frameworks independently, without relying on a developer.
- Build Looker Studio dashboards clients actually use.
- Turn data into clear recommendations: what happened, why, and what comes next.
Client management and commercial growth
- Own client relationships end-to-end, calls, strategic reviews, difficult conversations, and spotting opportunities to grow accounts.
- Bring practical AI into your workflow.
- Share what you are learning with the team and help build better, faster processes.
What we'd love you to bring to the role:
- Hands-on Google Ads, you have built, structured and optimised campaigns across objectives and budgets.
- Paid social, Meta as a minimum, managed end-to-end, not just monitored.
- E-commerce, Google Shopping and Performance Max, with a practical understanding of feeds and retail seasonality.
- Direct technical client management, held relationships, grew accounts, handled the full range of conversations.
- GA4 (events, conversions, audiences from scratch), GTM (tags and triggers independently), Consent Mode, Looker Studio.
- AI in your workflow, already experimenting with LLMs for copy, briefs or reporting.
- Curiosity over polish.
- CRM familiarity (HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive), RevOps analysis, server-side tracking concepts and exposure.
What We Offer
- 36 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
- Company pension
- Private healthcare
- MacBook provided
- 3:30pm finish on Fridays
- Regular team socials
- Hybrid — Earls Colne office, 2 days per week
Our Hiring Process
We move quickly and keep it transparent. Three stages:
- 30-minute discovery call with our People Team, relaxed, two-way, and a chance for both of us to decide if it is worth going further.
- 60-minute culture and capability interview with the hiring manager, your approach to work, clients, and technical depth.
- Task presentation, we send a brief at the end of Stage 2 and give you as much time as possible to prepare. One hour together to go through it.
If you are excited about this role and can do most of what we are looking for, we are committed to a fair, accessible process and actively welcome applications from people with a range of backgrounds, identities and experiences.
Senior Performance Consultant (PPC/Paid Social) employer: Climbing Trees
Join our dynamic digital marketing agency in Essex, where we prioritise honest work and real results. With a close-knit team that values collaboration and personal growth, we offer 36 days of annual leave, private healthcare, and a hybrid working model to ensure a healthy work-life balance. Here, you will have the opportunity to lead innovative paid media strategies while being supported in your professional development within a culture that embraces curiosity and proactive thinking.
