Head of Paid Media

5 months ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Cardilogix Full time

Are you ready to take the step into leadership and grow and develop a Paid Media department underneath you?

As the agency’s **Head of Paid Media**, you will have the opportunity to take the lead on paid campaigns across the spectrum of paid advertising: From PPC and Programmatic, to OOH and Print. Additionally, your role will include:
**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Deliver increased operational performance, business development, increased revenue, and client growth.
- Provide strategic direction for the Paid Media team and for the agencies business offerings into new areas.
- Managing client relationships, ensuing client retention and loyalty, and identifying areas for client growth.
- Be responsible for the creation and refinement of development processes of the Paid Media team, to ensure effective training.
- Organising and working with the cross-media teams to ensure effective execution of campaign strategies.
- Stay up to date with platform and industry changes, updating strategies in line with your analysis and observations and filtering these down to the wider Paid Media team.
- Practical experience of delivering across the range of programmatic display and paid social platforms including Google, Facebook and Instagram.

**Skills & Experience**:

- 7+ years’ experience managing paid media accounts.
- Substantial experience across the breadth of social media and other marketing channels: Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, Paid Search and Display.
- Proven experience winning new business and cross selling/ up selling when appropriate.
- Substantial experience of managing and developing a team.
- Proven experience of growing and developing client accounts.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with experience using tools such as Google Analytics.

**Application must include**:

- Updated CV

**Salary**: R70,000.00 - R75,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

- Do you currently or have you previously worked for an agency?
- Do you currently or have you previously worked on FMCG brands?


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