Head of Paid Media
Posted 3 days ago by Digital Tonic | Digital, eCommerce & Marketing Recruitment
£70,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Head of Paid Media will lead the paid acquisition strategy for an innovative ecommerce business focused on sustainability. This role involves managing significant media budgets, mentoring a high-performing team, and driving profitable growth across multiple brands and markets. The position offers a unique opportunity to work in a purpose-driven environment while leveraging AI and emerging technologies in paid media. The role is a 12-month fixed-term contract based in Bristol, England.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the paid acquisition strategy across multiple brands, products, and markets.
- Manage significant media budgets and drive profitable growth at scale.
- Oversee paid media activities across various platforms including Google, Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Microsoft, and Pinterest.
- Mentor and lead a talented paid media team, fostering a culture of high performance and collaboration.
- Collaborate with creative, CRM, content, and development teams to ensure integrated and effective campaigns.
- Utilize AI and emerging technologies to innovate within the paid media space.
- Balance strategic leadership with commercial decision-making and performance analysis.
Key Skills:
- Significant experience leading paid media strategy across Paid Search and Paid Social.
- Experience managing and mentoring high-performing paid media teams.
- Proven track record of managing large-scale, multi-channel paid media budgets.
- Strong understanding of how paid media contributes to ecommerce and commercial growth.
- Commercially strong, analytical, and confident in forecasting and attribution.
- Experience scaling brands internationally or across multiple markets.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with creative, CRM, development, and content teams.
- Interest in AI and emerging technologies within paid media.
Salary (Rate): £70,000.00 yearly
City: City Of Bristol
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
Are you a commercially-minded Paid Media leader who loves scaling brands, mentoring teams, and building smart acquisition strategies? Do you want to work for a purpose-driven business that’s trying to make a genuine difference to the planet? We’re partnering with an incredibly innovative ecommerce business to find a Head of Paid Media for a 12 month fixed-term contract. This is a rare opportunity to lead paid media for a brand with a genuinely meaningful mission, an international customer base, and partnerships with a host of iconic global brands. The business operates with the pace and variety of an agency, making this a brilliant opportunity for someone from either an agency or in-house background. If you're from an agency background, looking to transition in-house, this could be your golden ticket - a chance to open doors with an in-house brand that really values agency experience.
The Role
As Head of Paid Media, you’ll lead the paid acquisition strategy across multiple brands, products and markets, managing significant media budgets and driving profitable growth at scale. This is a highly commercial leadership role where you’ll own paid media end-to-end — from strategic planning and forecasting through to channel optimisation, attribution, reporting and international expansion. You’ll oversee activity across Google, Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Microsoft and Pinterest, ensuring campaigns are efficient, scalable and aligned to wider business objectives. You’ll lead and mentor a talented and established paid media team, creating a culture of high performance, collaboration and continuous learning. Alongside team leadership, you’ll work closely with creative, CRM, content and development teams to ensure campaigns are integrated and commercially effective. The business is also investing heavily in AI and emerging technologies, so there’s huge opportunity for someone excited by innovation and the future of paid media to make a genuine impact. This role would suit someone who enjoys balancing strategic leadership with commercial decision-making and still likes staying close enough to performance to challenge thinking and drive best practice.
Skills and Experience
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has significant experience leading paid media strategy across both Paid Search and Paid Social
- Has experience managing and mentoring high-performing paid media teams
- Has managed large-scale, multi-channel paid media budgets
- Understands how paid media contributes to wider ecommerce and commercial growth
- Is commercially strong, analytical and confident working with forecasting and attribution
- Has experience scaling brands internationally or across multiple markets
- Enjoys working cross-functionally with creative, CRM, dev and content teams
- Has an interest in AI and emerging technologies within paid media
- Could come from either an agency or in-house environment
Benefits
You’ll be joining a hugely successful, purpose-driven business entering an exciting new phase of growth. The culture is creative, collaborative and genuinely supportive, with a close-knit team of smart people doing meaningful work. This is an opportunity to lead a talented team, shape international growth strategy, and work with a business that partners with incredible brands while trying to build a better future through sustainable commerce. The role offers hybrid working, strong flexibility, and the chance to make a visible impact in a business that’s continuing to evolve rapidly.
Sound Good? If you’re a Paid Media leader who wants to combine commercial growth, team leadership and purpose-driven work in a genuinely exciting business? Don't wait!? Apply now.