Paid Search Senior Executive

Agency:

Omd

Job Function:

Media

Job Subfunction:

Performance Media

Job Description:

About the Role:

MG OMD are searching for a Paid Search Senior Account Executive to join the team, working on Waitrose.

The Senior Executive will work with the team to build upon the existing foundations through experimentation and deliver best-in-class media. This opportunity will allow the team to shape performance and deliver future-facing technology and solutions.

In the Senior Executive role, you will be working as part of the Investment team @MG OMD, comprised of 100+ specialists who work across paid search, paid social and organic performance (SEO). Although the role primarily focuses on paid search, there are opportunities to develop skills across the wider Investment team. This role requires someone with enthusiasm, a creative mindset, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Senior Executives will have experience of running advertising campaigns across Google & Microsoft search. You should ideally be experienced in producing detailed media plans across a variety of objectives and targeting types. You should also have knowledge of optimising search campaigns to improve performance. Experience working in a marketing or agency environment is a bonus but not required!

You will need to be organised and methodical with a calm demeanor. You will also need to be confident working with numbers as we regularly deal with large amounts of data. Proficiency with Microsoft Excel is essential and some PowerPoint experience is preferable.

As a client-facing team, we are looking for someone who is is a strong communicator.

The Senior Account Executive role involves serving as the primary day-to-day contact for the clients you work with, becoming a valued member of their marketing team. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality work.

Supporting the wider activation team on day-to-day implementation, alongside driving client performance to meet targets and expectations.

About the Agency:

MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft, trust and performance at the heart of media planning and buying.

Since joining Omnicom network’s OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998, we have continued to retain our founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches, unprecedented insight, specialism, security and transparency; helping our clients to use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative, effective and award-winning work and campaigns that create difference that matters.

MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK. We are the most awarded media agency in both the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkbox’s TV Planning Awards and have this year been named as Agency of the Year in The Media Leader UK awards, Campaign Global awards and Campaign UK awards.

With over 500 employees working across some of the UK’s leading brands including the John Lewis Partnership, Virgin Media O2, British Airways, Specsavers, HM Government, LNER, Sony Pictures and Age UK; it is our people who ultimately make the award-winning difference.

So, true to our ethos, we work hard at creating a spirit and atmosphere that inspires our people to be considerate, honest, and professional whilst also being stimulating, imaginative and inspirational.

We want people who are great to work with, fun to be with and who genuinely care; about each other, our clients, our media partners and doing great work.

In return, we provide an amazingly collaborative culture, where open communication and an unwavering commitment to diversity of thinking, diversity of background and diversity of skillsets runs through everything we do. All backed up by the highest standards of training, development and support in the industry; so much so, that we have attained IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) CPD Gold Accreditation for the 13th year running and maintained our CPD Platinum Accreditation for the 7th consecutive year, showcasing our commitment to continuous professional development. We were also featured in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in both 2023 and 2024. Our being named is completely based on the opinions and perspectives of our employees which makes the accolade all that more special.

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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