Paid media specialist

We’re looking for a paid media specialist to join Carrington. This position’s ideal for someone with between 2-5 years’ experience working with Google Ads and paid social accounts (either in an agency or in-house) and who loves the idea of working at a Google Partner agency, helping to deliver brilliant returns for our clients.

We want someone with bags of talent and passion for PPC and paid social ads across all platforms (Meta and LinkedIn especially). We want to keep growing and we need an energetic and ambitious team to help us get there.

In exchange you’ll get a great salary (£30k – £40k depending on experience) and great experience working on different clients across a range of industries. You’ll also have access to further industry training and qualifications, and great opportunities to further your career.

• Salary: £30k – £40k (depending on experience)
• Flexible working hours (to suit your work-life balance)
• Hybrid working (2 office days per week)
• 34 days holidays per year (including bank holidays)
• New Apple or Windows products and home working equipment on joining
• Generous company pension (up to 16% per year)
• £1k annual training budget
• Flexible start date (to suit any notice period)
• Enhanced parental leave (as company policy)
• Climate positive agency (Ecologi)
• Monthly team lunches and socials
• Discounts on films, holidays & shopping via Charlie HR Perks
• Cycle to work scheme
• Google Partner agency

• Managing client Pay-Per-Click campaigns through Google Ads, across Search, Display, Shopping and Video
• Managing paid social ads campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn (and other platforms)
• Microsoft Ads experience
• Optimising campaigns for clients daily, weekly and monthly
• Optimising conversation rates and implementing advanced conversion tracking
• Data analysis from Google Ads and Google Analytics to optimise accounts and improve performance
• Setting client strategies in partnership with our PR and SEO teams
• Manage the onboarding process to ensure that the agency has all assets and account access as required for management of campaigns
• Effectively forecast performance to set KPIs and accurately recommend budgets for client campaigns
• Leading paid media processes and ensuring campaigns are running on 2025-best practises
• Regular account audits to identify new opportunities and growth of campaigns and results
• Reporting and analytics of PPC campaign
• Supporting with new business pitches and proposals

Essential

• Strong track record of managing B2B lead generation campaigns
• Experience managing multiple ad campaigns on Google Ads, Facebook and more
• Experience of managing clients and working with them to deliver strong results
• Google Ads and Google Analytics certification
• Great client relationship and team working skills
• Strong attention to detail and timekeeping
• Clear communication for clients and internal teams

Beneficial

• Google Tag Manager and Search Console experience
• Copywriting and content creation
• Agency experience
• Google Ads scripts experience
• Understanding of CRO impact on paid media
• Full, clean driving licence