Paid Search Manager in Bengaluru (Job Vacancy)

"You'll be based in the Assembly India Centre of Excellence (COE), reporting into the Paid Search director and working hand-in-hand with your colleagues in the Assembly EMEA teams who are based in London, UK and Paris, France.

The Assembly India COE is a critically important part of our capability to deliver exceptional performance for our clients for two reasons:

• You enable our clients to get ahead of the day. The time difference between India and Europe means you can provide ‘overnight' analysis, recommendations and builds which are ready to go live at 9am GMT every day.
• You have focused time and are part of a global specialist Paid Search community meaning you can deliver excellent insight, flawless account set-ups and optimisation recommendations that deliver growth and efficiency.

You'll be responsible for one to two Paid Search executives, with the responsibility for the quality of their work and helping them to develop into Paid Search specialists. Together, you'll support the EMEA based Paid Search teams in delivering high quality analysis and insight, fast and accurate account set-ups, and you'll ensure accounts perform as planned and beat performance targets.

Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Channel and technical expertise

• Ensuring you and your team are always at the top of your game: you will be fully qualified in the main platforms, and you'll regularly coach your executive on how to deliver best practice and achieve exceptional results.
• You'll have a passion for Paid Search, keeping yourself, your team and your clients up to date with the latest features, approaches and techniques to deliver high quality and high performing Paid Search campaigns
• You'll positively challenge your colleagues in the EMEA Paid Search teams by proactively making optimisation and testing recommendations.

Seamless integration

• Act as an extension of the EMEA Assembly teams: fully understanding our clients' goals, processes and ways of working
• Fully adhere to Assembly EMEA's Paid Search operating standards, workflow systems and processes
• Attends the daily EMEA and India ‘stand-ups' fully prepared with a view on the accounts you're responsible for: able to explain what's happened, why and what you're recommending we do to drive even better performance
• Ensuring you and your teams are active and noisy members of the global Assembly Paid Search community
• Builds strong relationships with the EMEA teams.

Operational excellence

• Your team proactively conducts ‘overnight' (for EMEA clients) account checks and audits to ensure there are zero errors (overspends, etc.) and compiles optimisation recommendations ready for review at 9am GMT every morning
• Establishes routines and ways of working which ensure our teams are close to the ‘real-time' performance of accounts and therefore able to deliver exceptional insight and performance
• You'll be the first to identify issues and opportunities, and as a result quickly make sound recommendations to the EMEA team
• Ensuring your team is organised, have clear responsibilities and deliver high quality work to agreed deadlines
• Ensuring 100% compliance of all Assembly Paid Search operational processes.

Client performance

• Has a client-first view, ensuring your team act in the best interests of our clients and always show up positively.
• Coaches team to provide clear insight, actionable recommendations and to make sound predictions of the potential outcomes from your recommendations
• You are responsible for ensuring all work coming from your team is correct, of a high quality and meets the requirements from the client and/or EMEA Assembly team
• Drives exceptional performance for our clients and ensures our clients and the agency know about the value your team bring to our clients' businesses.

High Performance

• Supports their line manager and helps develop their line reports
• Represents the department at all levels across the agency, collaborating positively and with purpose
• Nurtures an inclusive team ensuring everyone is heard and treated equally
• Implements talent management strategies

Requirements

• 2+ years' experience in planning and activating high performing Paid Search campaigns in Google and Microsoft.
• Has relevant Google Ads and Microsoft Ads qualifications.
• Is highly analytical and able to simplify complex ideas.
• Having an educational background in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subject would be advantageous but not essential.
• Has advanced Excel skills
• Can call upon lots of examples of delivering growth for clients through Paid Search.
• Has experience of working with EMEA teams.
• High energy, leads by example and is a problem solver."