About the Role
MG OMD is seeking a Paid Search Senior Account Executive to join the Waitrose team. This role involves building on existing foundations through experimentation to deliver best-in-class media, shaping performance, and delivering future-facing technology and solutions. You will be part of the Investment team, focusing primarily on paid search but with opportunities to develop skills across paid social and SEO. The ideal candidate is enthusiastic, creative, and entrepreneurial.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for clients.
- Become a valued member of client marketing teams.
- Deliver high-quality work.
- Support the wider activation team on day-to-day implementation.
- Drive client performance to meet targets and expectations.
- Run advertising campaigns across Google & Microsoft search.
- Produce detailed media plans across a variety of objectives and targeting types.
- Optimize search campaigns to improve performance.
Requirements
- Experience running advertising campaigns across Google & Microsoft search.
- Experience producing detailed media plans across a variety of objectives and targeting types.
- Knowledge of optimizing search campaigns to improve performance.
- Organized and methodical with a calm demeanor.
- Confident working with numbers and large amounts of data.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel is essential.
- Some PowerPoint experience is preferable.
- Strong communication skills for client-facing interactions.
Skills
- Paid Search
- Media Planning
- Campaign Optimization
- Microsoft Excel
- PowerPoint
- Communication
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft, trust and performance at the heart of media planning and buying.
- Since joining Omnicom network’s OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998, MG OMD has retained its founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches, unprecedented insight, specialism, security and transparency.
- MG OMD helps clients use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative, effective and award-winning work and campaigns.
- MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK.
- MG OMD is the most awarded media agency in the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkbox’s TV Planning Awards.
- MG OMD has been named Agency of the Year in The Media Leader UK awards, Campaign Global awards and Campaign UK awards.
- MG OMD works with over 500 employees across leading brands including John Lewis Partnership, Virgin Media O2, British Airways, Specsavers, HM Government, LNER, Sony Pictures and Age UK.
- MG OMD fosters a spirit and atmosphere that inspires people to be considerate, honest, and professional whilst also being stimulating, imaginative and inspirational.
- MG OMD provides a collaborative culture with open communication and a commitment to diversity of thinking, background, and skillsets.
- MG OMD offers high standards of training, development, and support, holding IPA CPD Gold Accreditation for 13 years and CPD Platinum Accreditation for 7 years.
- MG OMD was featured in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in 2023 and 2024 based on employee feedback.
- Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, with potential for increase.
- Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent and building inclusive teams.
- Omnicom celebrates diversity and believes differences make teams stronger.
Equal Opportunity
- Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
