Digital Marketing Executive (Paid Search & Paid Social)

Riviera has a fantastic opportunity for a highly skilled and motivated Digital Marketing Executive to own the delivery of the digital marketing plan across the Paid Search, Programmatic and Paid Social channels for its UK and Ireland businesses.

The Digital Marketing Executive will be responsible for delivering and optimizing the digital marketing plan across paid search, programmatic and paid social channels. The role owns budget management, channel execution, performance delivery and testing ensuring all activity is aligned to our business objectives.

The individual in this role should have a strong day to day trading and growth mindset to supercharge the performance of two of our main customer acquisition channels.

The team sits as part of the wider global Marketing department based in Burton on Trent. The team reports into the Senior Digital Marketing Manager and will collaborate with the global digital leads to develop their digital marketing strategies and optimize activity according to best practice.

Key Responsibilities:

Budget ownership and campaign spend management

• Lead and manage the digital media budget for paid search, programmatic and paid social channels, ensuring efficient allocation across channels.
• Forecast spend, revenue and performance outcomes with high accuracy
• Monitor pacing of optimize spend in real time to maximise ROI
• Create and provide regular performance reports for management information and decision making.

Campaign execution and optimization

• Lead hands on end-to-end management of the paid search, paid social campaigns
• Oversee account structure, bidding strategies, audience segmentation and creative testing
• Implement A/B testing frameworks and continuous optimization processes
• Ensure tracking implementation and accuracy across platforms (GA4, conversion API’s, tagging)
• Implement effective retargeting campaigns to drive performance and create good customer journeys
• Utilise data lists effectively to build targeting options for products and customer profiles

Performance analysis and reporting

• Develop dashboards and reporting frameworks to monitor performance
• Deliver actionable insights to senior leadership to inform decisions
• Analyse multi-channel attribution and incremental CPA’s to recommend and inform investment decisions
• Use known data feeds to structure targeting, creative approaches and budget allocation

Partner and stakeholder management

• Work closely with the Paid Search Lead and Paid Social Lead to align on strategy and best practice across channels, and use shared learnings to optimise performance
• Manage relationships with media agencies, DSP partners and tech vendors e.g. Google
• Provide high quality creative briefs to external agencies and internal teams where appropriate
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Brand, Product, Data, Finance and Creative teams
• Ensure compliance with data privacy and advertising standards

Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Proven track record of growth through digital marketing in an ecommerce setting
• Paid Search or Paid social experience desirable, Programmatic an advantage
• Growth mindset focused on winning the day and striving to drive better performance
• Deep expertise in performance marketing and analytics, specifically hands on experience with:
• Google Ads
• Microsoft Ads
• Meta
• Programmatic DSP platforms (e.g. DV 360)
• Strong understanding of attribution models and analytics dashboards (GA4, Looker)