Head of Search Engine Marketing

1 week ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Recruitment Matters Africa Full time

Our client is looking for the Head of Search Engine Marketing who will be responsible for the day-to-day management of all their PPC client's paid media, content and channels and reporting back on these with data-driven insights.

You will be responsible for leading a small team of juniors who will assist with keyword research, tracking results, and monitoring results.

As the Head of Search Engine Marketing, you will oversee each brand and the vision and growth for each brand, including paid media strategy creation, understanding and implementation, technical knowledge sharing, and problem-solving with clients and your internal team.


Responsibilities:

  • Overseeing all paid media for PPC clients across the agency
  • Creating & executing SEM strategies for clients
  • Forecasting with budgets and possible results based on budgets
  • Manage a team of juniors who assist with SEM, including handson training and feedback
  • Execute tests, collect and analyze data, and identify trends and insights in order to achieve maximum ROI in paid search campaigns
  • Track, report, and analyze website analytics and PPC initiatives and campaigns
  • Creating & testing audiences
  • Building PPC campaigns from scratch
  • Advising internal team, juniors, and clients on campaigns, creativity, and results/issues
  • Implementing GA4 on client's websites
  • Pulling and collating data from multiple sources.
  • Creating media plans.
  • Meeting and maintaining relationships with clients
  • Being on hand to explain results and data to a client or colleague
  • Technical assistance on pitches
  • Manage campaign expenses, stay on budget, estimate monthly costs and reconcile discrepancies
  • Optimize copy and landing pages for paid search engine marketing campaigns
  • Perform ongoing paid keyword discovery, expansion, and optimization
  • Research and analyse competitors and advertising links

Key Skills:

  • Comfortable navigating Wordpress,
  • Understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript is a plus,
  • Proficiency in Excel completely
    essential,:
  • Analytical thinking with strong math skills,
  • Strong computer skills,
  • Wellversed in the principles of search engine marketing (SEM),
  • Working knowledge of analytics tools, including the implementation of tracking on websites,

Qualifications:

  • 4+ years of experience in digital media marketing
  • 6+ years of experience in running paid media specifically
  • Google ads certified
  • Google Data Studio & SEM Rush
  • Proven experience as a PPC Manager & running a team
  • Experience in data analysis and reporting
  • Experience with google ads: Search, display, and shopping, discovery, performance, max, YouTube
  • Uptodate with the latest trends and best practices in search engine marketing
  • Extensive experience with Google Tag manager implementations and custom event setup
  • BS/MS degree in Marketing or a quantitative, testdriven field

Salary:
From R10,000.00 per month

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