Biddable Account Manager

About the Role:

Omnicom Media UK is seeking a Biddable Manager, Paid Search, with strong technical capability in major search buying platforms and a finger on the pulse of latest channel developments & product releases.

Sitting in OM UK’s central team, you’ll be a confident communicator, working closely with teams across OM UK agencies and Centres of Excellence to deliver best‑in‑class biddable campaigns for clients across the group. You will be comfortable working autonomously and collaborating with colleagues in other locations, supported by your local team.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a uniquely positioned and talented team in OM UK’s Manchester office, working across some of the world’s biggest brands.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage day to day deliverables across the team and drive ongoing test and learn innovation
• Manage response to briefs, coordinating input from across the biddable team and collaborating with wider channel teams as required
• Create media plans with clear rationale on media choices and budget allocations
• Ensure campaigns are built and activated on time, aligned with wider media plans and flighting
• Implement cross team processes and ensure team adherence to ensure campaign setup, budgets and pacing accuracy
• Analyse and optimise across live accounts daily to ensure performance is aligned to core KPIs, providing performance insights to the client and internal teams
• Coordinate and present weekly reports, PCAs and QBRs to agency teams and clients
• Facilitate the smooth administration of monthly financial reconciliation across the team
• Support the development and progression of a Senior Executive who reports into you
• Develop strong relationships with internal and external teams
• Work closely with media owners to drive forward feature adoption and media maturity
• Regularly share latest channel news and developments with the wider team
• Travel to London or Newcastle when necessary

About you:

• Experience managing paid search campaigns in an agency environment, ideally network agency or large independent
• Understanding of the broader digital spectrum, marketing mix & media planning process
• Experience line managing or mentoring junior team members
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills to effectively articulate and present to a wide range of stakeholders
• An analytical mind, able to work with large data sets to identify the drivers behind data trends
• Strong attention to detail to complete tasks in an accurate manner and spot key detail within large sets of qualitative and quantitative information
• Effective organisation skills, able to multi-task, plan and prioritise own & team workload concurrently
• Experience working within core paid search buying platforms – Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, SA360 (preferred)
• Experience working with ad serving platforms, ads trafficking processes, conversion tracking and tagging mechanisms
• Understanding of on-site analytics and platforms – GA4, Adobe Analytics

About the Agency:

Omnicom Media UK (OMG UK) is the media division of Omnicom Group Inc., headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and Newcastle. OMG UK exists to power its four UK agencies – OMD UK, MG OMD, PHD UK, and Hearts & Science. The four agencies have open access to OMG UK’s Centres of Excellence which provide market-leading capabilities across Digital Marketing, Creative Solutions, Investment and Futures.

OMG UK agencies are holders of numerous Agency and Network of the Year accolades, alongside multiple awards at the Global Festival of Media Awards, Cannes Lions, The Drum Awards, and IPA Effectiveness Awards.

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