Digital Performance Specialist (SEM) (SO2)
Description
Position Overview - How your role makes a difference
A successful SEM Specialist will effectively manage the paid search budget and work with the Digital team & client services teams in order to maximize ROI, drive traffic, and customers.
Key responsibilities
- New Account Set Up
- Ensure all campaigns are set up correctly and execute QA checklist
- Perform ongoing paid keyword discovery, expansion and optimization
- Track, report, and analyze website analytics and PPC initiatives and campaigns
- Provide proactive recommendations for short and long-term campaign improvements
- Coordinate campaign & ad copy build tasks to our offshore SEM team
- Build post-campaign reports and spend recommendations
- Adhoc requests - actioning ad changes, landing page changes, other campaign changes within 24-7
Essential Experience
- At least 3 years' experience in Ad Google AdWords / search engine marketing, with other Digital Marketing experience highly
- Proven SEM experience and success managing PPC campaigns across Google and Bing
- Well-versed in performance marketing, conversion, and online customer acquisition
- Up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in search engine marketing & measurement
- In-depth experience with bid management tools desirable
- Experience with website analytics tools (e.g, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager)
- Strong analytical skills and experience generating SEM reports
Essential Personal attributes
- Passion for working with clients and a genuine desire to assist them to grow and succeed
- Positivity, resilience, drive, resourcefulness
- Sound written & verbal communication skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong customer focus & rapport building skills
- Strong time management & organisational skills
- Ability to work calmly and efficiently under pressure in a busy environment within a small
Highly Desirable
- Other social and display campaign management experience desirable
- Familiarity with A/B and multivariate experiments desirable
- Experience in generating reports in Google Data Studio desirable & highly regarded
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking to develop high performing