Senior Paid Media Executive

You know all about our high street roots and bricks and mortar stores. Now, we're looking to the future. Since 2021, we've embraced some changes. Debenhams hasn’t made a comeback—we’ve been here since 1778, evolving and adapting to the times. This is Debenhams today - Britain’s Leading Online Department Store.We are more than a department store—we are an institution. From creating the blueprint for designer collaborations with Designers at Debenhams, to launching countless brands and inventing the beauty counter, we’ve consistently shaped the retail landscape.We don’t underestimate the power of our brand or the place we hold in people’s hearts.

This is only the beginning of the next chapter for Debenhams.Britain needs Debenhams.....Debenhams needs you!

We have a new opportunity for a Senior Paid Media Executive to join our Debenhams team. You will lead, inspire, and help to develop Executives & Assistants in our market-leading in-house Paid Media team. You will help spearhead best-in-class Paid Media implementation across Paid Search, Paid Social & Digital Display.Your role will be to lead the strategy and account direction, predominantly working with our tier 1 partners such as Google, YouTube, Bing, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest as well as emerging platforms and opportunities.You will also manage key stakeholders across the business, as well as integrating with other parts of the Ecom team such as Organic Search, Affiliates & Partnerships, Content, as well as CRO and Analytics teams.

You will be coming into a team of 3 currently with a head of performance marketing, Senior Affiliate Manager and a PPC Executive - We are growing the team and you can be part of that growth. You will get the opportunity to help develop our talented junior team. You will also manage key stakeholders across the business, as well as integrating with other parts of the ECOM team such as Organic Search, Affiliates & Partnerships, Content, as well as CRO and Analytics teams.

You will work with the paid media manager to help manage, own, and constantly find ways of improving the workflow of your team whilst overseeing the end to end Implementation including set-up, management, analytics, tracking, reporting of Paid Search and/or Paid Social accounts.You will also help to oversee the end to end Implementation including set-up, management, analytics, tracking, reporting of Paid Search and/or Paid Social accounts and being an expert in all relevant 3rd party tools & technology.We would like for you to build & maintain project plans outlining all key tasks for your accounts, continually helping the paid media department by being innovative and sharing knowledge and processes.

You will also develop a close working relationship with external suppliers such as Google, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok etc.

To succeed here, you have to love working at pace. It’s relentless, but we love it. Change is a certainty – you need to adapt and be agile. We want you to challenge the status quo, innovate and be open to trying new things. We’re always pushing boundaries. We empower our people, giving them freedom and autonomy to learn and grow in their roles. We’re passionate, agile, creative and one team.

We want to hire someone who has the ability to identify issues and be pro-active in providing solutions and have a high degree of numeracy and literacy skills. You should be someone who can work under pressure across a high level of Paid Search and/or Paid Social accounts and have effective team management experience. There will be times where you will present to senior stakeholders so we would like to see a good degree of presentation skills, communication skills and a high attention to detail. You don't have to have come from a brand background and we are open to meeting people who have worked mostly within an agency, you should be able to however demonstrate a strong understanding of the retail landscape and how a business like ours performs.

We are extraordinary, we get it done and strive to be better every day. We collectively have a ‘yes we can’ mentality sharing our vision of working together as one team. We always operate with the mentality that anything is possible.

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