Senior Paid Media Specialist

5 months ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Cardilogix Full time

Now Hiring

**Senior Paid Media Specialist (Search & Social)**

Situated: Johannesburg

Role: Hybrid

As a key member of the Paid Media team, you will drive paid media strategy across search & social channels for several important marketing initiatives.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop paid media strategy by creating comprehensive campaign plans (audiences, channels, budgets, timing, ad messaging, etc.) based on stakeholder requirements and keyword/audience research.
- Effectively plan budgets and execute high volumes of campaigns across multiple platforms to achieve traffic and engagement goals
- Leverage ad data and web analytics tools to monitor performance trends, analyze visitor behavior, and identify opportunities for campaign improvement.
- Build and deliver data-driven presentations to share campaign results, content insights, and other analyses with your key stakeholders
- Work closely with content and creative teams to optimize landing pages, images, and video creative for ad units

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- A bachelor's degree and 5-6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or equivalent experience) is required.

**Additional Qualifications**:

- 5-6 years campaign management experience in a high-volume agency environment.
- Experience in Automotive, FMCG and E-Commerce as well.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and optimise campaigns to achieve business goals (i.e. traffic, engagement, and conversion goals.)
- Knowledge of paid media best practices and experience with industry tools (e.g. Google Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads, YouTube Ads)
- Experience with web analytics software (e.g. Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics).

**Salary**: R50,000.00 - R60,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

- How many years of work experience do you have with Paid Search Campaigns?
- How many years of work experience do you have with Paid Search Strategy?
- How many years of work experience do you have with Paid Social Media Advertising?
- How many years of work experience do you have with Google Analytics?
- How many years of work experience do you have with Google Tag Manager?
- Do you have experience working on both Automotive and FMCG brands?


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