Saatchi & Saatchi

Manager, Search Marketing

Saatchi & Saatchi$75K — $120K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 5-7 years of digital media experience; 4+ years in SEM.
  • Preferred experience managing direct reports.
  • Strong familiarity with the digital media landscape, including multi-channel media planning and buying.
  • Proficient in media research tools, understanding their strengths and applications.
  • Detail-oriented with analytical skills for objective achievement.
  • Proven capability in quantitative research and data interpretation.
  • Fluency in Microsoft Office and preferred experience with various analytics tools.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the main contact for day-to-day client interactions.
  • Lead the creation of program strategies and analyses tailored for clients.
  • Oversee the internal team's daily activities on bid strategy optimization.
  • Establish and promote best practices in paid search across the team.
  • Ensure quality assurance and accountability in campaign executions.
  • Develop and present media strategies while guiding their application to media recommendations.
  • Align media deliverables with client objectives and performance goals.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Disability insurance and 401K options.
  • Parental and family care leave.
  • Assistance for family forming and educational tuition reimbursement.
  • Flexible time-off policies to support work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Overview

As Manager of Search Marketing, you'll manage the strategic components of an integrated SEM campaign. You will lead a team of analysts within the Digitas SEM capability team to establish performance metrics, report results and foster client and vendor relationships.

Responsibilities

  • Serving as primary contact for day-to-day clients
  • Spearheading the development of program strategies and analyses for clients (e.g., target audience recommendation, geographic targeting, timing/scheduling strategy)
  • Overseeing day-to-day internal team's work on bid strategy optimization and testing
  • Establishing and driving paid search best practices for team to assimilate across tactics and activations
  • Maintaining a level of quality assurance and holding the team accountable for delivering campaigns and executions with precision
  • Writing and delivering media strategies, and overseeing the translation of these strategies into final media recommendations
  • Ensuring that media deliverables meet and align with client goals and objectives
  • Prioritizing teamwork, delegating responsibilities, and implementing a task management system that is universally accepted and applied
  • Developing team for advancement through positive mentoring, providing critical feedback, and exuding a genuine interest in professional success of others
  • Ensuring that analysts are effectively developing and optimizing campaigns for added value
  • Overseeing performance forecasting, budgeting process and allocation with client and internal stakeholders
  • Providing creative solutions to client challenges
  • Fostering relationship with internal teams (Media, S&A and other capabilities) and external teams while managing multiple client stakeholders
  • Understanding big picture implications and how insights can be applied in other programs and environments
  • Active knowledge sharing with capability and broader agency

Qualifications

  • A four-year degree and 5 to 7 years of digital media experience, 4+ years of SEM experience
  • Prior experience managing direct report(s) preferred
  • Strong familiarity with the digital environment and a clear understanding of media planning and buying process (multi-channel knowledge and DoubleClick search expertise preferred)
  • Strong understanding of media research tools - you know their strengths/weaknesses, and when and how to effectively use them
  • Keen attention to detail and an analytical approach to achieving objectives
  • Solid quantitative and research skills, and proven data interpretation capability
  • Fluency with Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel). Experience working with Tag Management Solutions, DMP, MTA and Site Analytics tools preferred
  • Excellent client presence and ability to lead discussions with internal and external leadership
  • Strong ability to understand client objectives and how they translate into search and media strategies
  • Stellar communication and presentation skills - you're poised, articulate and convincing
  • Willingness to travel as needed - you're open to new places, new faces and new ideas
  • Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL• E, Midjourney) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation.


Got the sparkle? Apply if you believe your unique skills are a fit.

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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