PPC Manager/senior Manager

We’re looking for a strategic Senior Paid Search Manager to lead a team working across some of our most exciting and high-profile accounts - spanning entertainment (gaming), travel, and retail. This role is about more than just performance delivery. It’s about guiding a team of specialists, shaping smart, effective strategy, and ensuring we continue to deliver truly innovative, best-in-class work for our clients. You'll play a central role in evolving our approach to automation, elevating digital maturity, and building trusted relationships with clients and partners alike.

Key Responsibilities

• Client Work and Innovation

• Develop, own and drive advanced paid search strategy for selected accounts in portfolio.
• A leader in innovation across the team – from inception of idea to delivery.
• Lead the development and delivery of testing roadmaps for your clients, focusing on search and wider digital maturity.
• Confidently present analysis, updates, and strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure excellent attention to detail is maintained across the team and best practice is being followed by all junior team members.
• Ensure all clients in patch have growth/testing roadmaps.
• Deliver award-winning work across your patch.

• Work with wider Paid Search, client, and other specialist teams to deliver integrated cross-channel campaigns.
• Maintain strong relationships with media owners and technology platform providers.
• Stay updated with Paid Search and performance industry trends, developments, product releases, and new technologies.

• Lead the team by example, supporting and encouraging continuous improvement in team performance.
• Set objectives and provide ongoing support for direct reports and junior team members.
• Ensure all junior team members have actionable PDPs with SMART objectives.
• Carry out weekly 1-2-1s with all team members, following up over email where necessary.
• Work with the Head of Search and Paid Search Business Directors to evaluate and future-proof team training and development.

• Be accountable for best-in-class work delivered on your accounts portfolio by consistently identifying areas to improve performance on your accounts.
• Be responsible for carrying out team and agency processes that improve quality and accuracy, including QA, optimisation, and automation.
• Support wider team initiatives, Paid Search Business Directors and Head of Search in driving Search Excellence, Digital Maturity and contributing to industry recognition.
• Contribute towards team-wide same store growth targets.

Experience

• Essential

• A track record of working on Paid Search retail-focused accounts with annual budgets in excess of £500k, either as a senior account manager or account director.
• Evidence of delivering exceptional performance through solid analysis, advanced testing and first-class execution that adds business value to clients’ bottom line.
• Proven ability to use Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising and SA360 platforms at an expert level, including optimal use of bidding strategies, offline conversions, and custom variables.
• Experience working across large retail accounts, with knowledge of feeds, tactics and ways of working in this vertical.
• Evidence of advanced use of automation and feed-based solutions that drive efficiency at scale.
• Solid understanding of industry best practice versus Google best practice – and the right balance between the two.
• Expert knowledge of measurement methodologies, privacy-centric features and attribution within Google Ads, GA and SA360.
• Passion for delivering innovation and award-winning work through implementational planning and buying.
• Experience in leading, motivating and managing a small team.

• Experience across Amazon Sponsored Products, Retail Media, and the Adobe analytics stack.

Benefits

• Uncounted holiday & wellbeing (Star) days
• 9-day fortnight in summer
• Flexible & hybrid working
• Work from anywhere for up to 2 weeks of the year
• Free breakfast & company bar
• New Business Bonus eligible in your first year as a 7stars employee
• Personal finance advice
• Discretionary summer profit share bonus and Christmas bonus
• Private Medical Insurance
• Choice of 5 gyms
• Season ticket Loan
• Cycle to work Scheme & Techscheme
• Life Assurance, critical Illness cover & income protection
• Enhanced family friendly policies, including Shared Parental & Adoption Leave
• Royal London pension (8% employer contributions up to £35k, 5% thereafter)
• Employee assistance programme & MHFA trained colleagues

The7stars is committed to creating a diverse environment, where employees feel empowered to share different ideas, perspectives and experiences in a collaborative and creative work environment. Equality and inclusion are at the heart of our culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.