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We build client relationships around strategic partnership, commercial leadership and the outcomes we create.\nAs Paid Search Manager, you'll own Google Ads strategy and delivery for a portfolio of challenger DTC brands, managing monthly budgets of £15k to £150k per client. Your job is to make Google a profitable source of new customers and earn the client's trust in how their budget is invested.\nYou'll join a Paid Search team of five, reporting to our Head of Paid Search, with significant opportunity to help shape the department as it grows. You'll work closely with each client's Growth Strategist, who owns paid social spend, offer strategy and conversion strategy, with your input.\nWhat you'll do:\nNew customer acquisition\nOwn the Google Ads acquisition strategy for your clients, building and scaling non-brand Search, Shopping, Performance Max and Demand Gen campaigns around profitable new customer growth.\nUnderstand where growth is coming from - assessing brand demand, returning customers and attribution limits when interpreting results, and using testing to evaluate incrementality.\nTranslate client growth goals into clear account plans, budget recommendations and prioritised tests, scaling when the evidence supports it and addressing underperformance early.\nClient leadership and budget ownership\nBe the client's trusted Paid Search lead, leading strategic conversations about performance, growth opportunities and where to invest next.\nOwn budget pacing and forecasting across accounts spending £15k to £150k per month, explaining the expected return, risks and trade-offs behind your recommendations.\nCommunicate proactively and clearly, so clients understand what's happening, why it matters to their business, and what you recommend doing about it.\nCross-functional growth planning\nBuild a joined-up growth plan with the Growth Strategist - you own Paid Search, they own social spend, offer strategy and conversion strategy - bringing your expertise to those decisions and agreeing shared priorities.\nConnect search intent and product performance with creative, offer and landing page decisions, sharing insights across teams and turning them into coordinated tests.\nPlan around promotions, stock availability, product margins and repeat purchase behaviour, keeping channel decisions grounded in the client's wider economics.\nAccount delivery and department development\nStay hands-on with campaign builds, bidding, product feeds, testing and optimisation, maintaining strong standards for account structure, measurement and reporting.\nKeep clients in the loop on current testing, key account changes and ongoing strategy through weekly, monthly and quarterly updates.\nWork with the Head of Paid Search to review performance, resolve risks and improve delivery, sharing useful findings and contributing to team training and playbooks.\nHelp build the systems and ways of working that let a small team grow while maintaining quality and client confidence.\nRequirements\nWhat you'll bring:\nA proven track record managing Google Ads for DTC e-commerce brands, with hands-on experience of non-brand Search, Shopping and Performance Max.\nSpecific examples of non-brand and PMax strategies that delivered incremental new customer growth - you can explain your hypothesis, what you changed, how you measured it, and the commercial result.\nExperience managing budgets comparable to £15k to £150k per month, balancing growth ambitions with acquisition efficiency and profitability.\nExperience leading client strategy and performance conversations, making budget recommendations, and building trust through periods of both growth and underperformance.\nA strong understanding of DTC unit economics, including acquisition cost, product margins, average order value and repeat purchase behaviour. 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