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We’re looking for a Paid Media Executive to join our Digital Marketing team. This role plays a key part in delivering paid media activity across search, social, display, and video, supporting firm‑wide brand and growth objectives.

Working closely with internal stakeholders and our media agency partner, you’ll help coordinate, develop, and optimise paid media campaigns, ensuring they are effectively planned, clearly briefed, and performance‑driven.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting the delivery of paid media campaigns across:
• Paid Search (Google Ads)
• Paid Social (LinkedIn, Meta/Facebook)
• Display and Video‑on‑Demand (VOD)
• Acting as a key point of contact with our media agency, coordinating campaign setup, timelines, and delivery
• Supporting campaign planning, briefing, and execution across multiple channels
• Briefing the agency on campaign objectives, audiences, messaging, and creative assets
• Working with internal teams to ensure creative and content assets are delivered on time
• Monitoring campaign performance and supporting optimisation activities
• Producing and contributing to paid media reporting and insights
• Supporting the ongoing development of paid media activity across the firm

Who You’ll Work With

• Media agency partner
• SEO Manager
• Content and CRO teams
• Brand and Campaign Marketing
• Business Development teams
• Digital Analytics specialists

Essential:

• Experience supporting or running paid media or paid search campaigns
• Understanding of key paid media channels and performance metrics
• Experience working with external agencies
• Strong communication and organisational skills

Desirable:

• PPC experience
• Exposure to platforms such as Google Ads, SA360, or Meta
• Google Analytics experience
• Strong Excel skills
• Experience in legal or professional services (not essential)

Location & Working Pattern

• Base location: Manchester or Sheffield
• Hybrid working: 2 days per week in the office

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.  This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim. 

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks ­with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.