Senior Paid Media Executive - JD in Bury

JD Sports- Head Office, Warwick House, Bury, United Kingdom

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni‑channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world. JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally. We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people‑led, innovative and customer‑focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

Role Description

As a Senior Paid Media Executive, you will lead, inspire, and develop Executives & Assistants in our market‑leading in‑house Paid Media team. You will help spearhead best‑in‑class Paid Media implementation across Paid Search, Paid Social & Digital Display. Your role will be to lead the strategy and account direction, predominantly working with our tier 1 partners such as Google, YouTube, Bing, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest as well as emerging platforms and opportunities. You will also manage key stakeholders across the business, as well as integrating with other parts of the Multi‑Channel team such as Organic Search, Affiliates & Partnerships, Content, as well as CRO and Analytics teams.

Key Duties

• Demonstrate a strong understanding & showcase a practical ability of working with Paid Search and/or Paid Social platforms and concepts.
• Manage, own, and constantly find ways of improving the workflow of your team.
• Responsible for quality of all work output from your team.
• Regularly review team processes (reports, presentations, tools etc.) for efficiency.
• Complete internal audits across your accounts & continually evolve.
• Oversee the end to end Implementation including set‑up, management, analytics, tracking, reporting of Paid Search and/or Paid Social accounts.
• Be an expert in all relevant 3rd party tools & technology.
• Build & maintain project plans outlining all key tasks for your accounts.
• Continually review & suggest changes to tactics based on current performance and impact on campaign goals & KPIs.
• Accurately forecast potential delivery for your accounts.
• Help develop the Paid Media department by being innovative and sharing knowledge and processes.
• Develop a close working relationship with external suppliers such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter etc.

Professional Skills

• Ability to identify issues and be pro‑active in providing solutions.
• A high degree of numeracy and literacy.
• Ability to work under pressure across a high level of Paid Search and/or Paid Social accounts.
• Highly literate in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Office365, Google Docs.
• Effective communication skills.
• Effective presentation skills.
• Effective time management skills with the ability to multi‑task.
• A high attention to detail.

Experiences

• Experience in managing sophisticated Paid Search/Paid Social campaigns.
• In depth knowledge of Paid Media, from an implementation perspective.
• Google Shopping, Facebook DPA, Retargeting experience.
• Google Analytics experience.
• An appreciation of the Paid Media ecosystem (i.e. how Paid Search influences Paid Social).
• Facebook Blueprint Certified & Twitter Flight School desired.
• Google Ads Certified desired.
• Second language an advantage.

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.