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Come join us:

MVF is looking for an experienced Senior Paid Search Manager to join our award-winning performance marketing team. You’ll be responsible for leading and developing a team of paid search executives and specialists, owning your team’s strategy and processes to drive performance against commercial goals and create an environment where your people can grow. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you'll define channel priorities, translate business objectives into paid search strategy, and report on team performance.

Who we are:

MVF is an award-winning customer acquisition business founded in the UK in 2009. We are one of the UK’s largest advertisers, with annual marketing spend of over £80M across multiple platforms. We generate customers for businesses on our own platform, running performance based digital marketing to drive sales for our clients and profit for MVF.

What you can expect:

• Lead a team of paid search specialists and executives, with full ownership of their development, performance, and day-to-day direction.

• Shape the strategy for your team's paid search portfolio, working directly with senior leadership and commercial stakeholders to define priorities and deliver against growth plans.

• An environment where you'll have real influence - we own our own brands, so there are no clients limiting what you can test or build

• Close collaboration with Google and Microsoft account teams to bring new channel betas and innovations to your team

• Access to expert data teams and platforms to inform strategy and decision-making

• MVF is ambitious and we hire ambitious people. You’ll get guidance and support on how you can take your career to the next level.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Line managing a team of Paid Search executives and specialists, taking responsibility for their personal development, performance management, and salary reviews. You'll provide ongoing feedback and coaching, and actively develop more junior managers within the team on people management skills.

• Owning your team's paid search strategy - setting direction, developing processes, and prioritising workflow to deliver against commercial targets and channel growth goals

• Overseeing campaign performance across your team's portfolio, using data to identify opportunities, diagnose issues, and drive improvements across Google Search, Display, Demand Gen, PMAX and Microsoft Ads

• Managing a portfolio of high-spending campaigns hands on, working closely with the strategy team to grow your own portfolio and deliver against growth plans.

• Working closely with senior leadership and commercial stakeholders to define channel priorities, present performance findings, and align paid search strategy to business objectives

• Leading paid search and wider marketing team projects, driving innovation, capability building, and long-term account development

• Building strong cross-functional relationships across MVF to drive collaboration, share learnings, and align on growth opportunities

• Keeping up to date with industry developments to refine your campaign strategies and influence MVF strategy

• Partnering with Google and Microsoft account teams to stay at the forefront of platform developments and gain early access to product betas

Our Ideal MVFer:

• 3 years+ of hands on campaign management experience on Google Ads (Search required, Display and/or YouTube preferred) including implementation of optimization activities and tests

• 2 years+ of team management experience

• Evidence of strong analytical and numerical ability

• A highly motivated individual with a strong work ethic and a desire to succeed

• A passion for digital marketing and Paid Search in particular

• A detail-oriented individual with a combination of creative and analytical skills

• A proactive and independent approach to working life

Benefits of working at MVF include:

• Summer Fridays

• Competitive holiday benefits - 25 days a year paid holiday, plus 8 bank holidays (increases 1 day a year up to 30 days)

• Hybrid working - 3 days a week in the office

• Closed for Christmas holidays - Extra days not taken from your annual holiday allowance.

• Work from anywhere for 2 weeks a year

• Life Assurance and Income Protection to protect your loved ones

• Benefits allowance for health, dental, and vision coverage

• Six months paid maternity leave, and one month paid paternity leave (subject to qualifying conditions) inclusive of same-sex and adoptive parents

• Defined Contribution Pension and Salary Sacrifice Scheme

• Be Well: Our award-winning wellbeing and mental health programme to support all MVFers and their families

• Family Forward support for our MVF parents and their mini-mes

• 2 charity days a year

• Free breakfast when in the office

About MVF

MVF powers growth for our clients by connecting them to potential customers.

The digital marketing landscape is complex and constantly evolving. Businesses need experts who are tracking that evolution and finding new ways to innovate and win.

This is where MVF comes in. We match readers, buyers & business leaders with the brands & companies that make the products and services they need.

We do this by building relationships with potential customers at each stage of the marketing funnel by offering insights, information, and tools to help them learn more about the things they’re interested in. We build profiles on our audiences, guide them through purchase decisions, and ultimately connect them to the right products/services when they are ready to buy. Our clients trust us as experts in lead generation, which frees up their time to do what they do best.