About us

SMG is one of the most exciting growth companies in the UK today. Home to three award winning agencies, Capture, Lobster and Threefold. At SMG, our people are at the heart of everything we do and are our biggest asset. We are proud to provide opportunities for fast career growth, recognising and rewarding great work, and doing this within an inclusive, highly flexible, and innovative environment.

We are dedicated to support our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We’re have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised as 2nd in Best Companies marketing and media's best agencies to work for, and we’ve just received our 3 star accreditation from Best Companies, making us a World Class company to work for.

Across the group, we have a shared mission to lead connected commerce marketing.

Read a summary of what each of our agencies do here!

The role

We are looking for a Performance Marketing Manager to work as a digital specialist within SMG, developing performance marketing strategies and tactics and implementing activation on behalf of our clients. You will be responsible for providing expertise and best practice insights into planning and optimising effective performance marketing campaigns across a range of eCommerce platforms, leading the growth of new products for our clients and build out new capabilities within our team.

What you'll be doing

We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:

• Presenting media plans, model forecast results and define key performance indicators.
• Working towards developing our Performance Retail products and total proposition.
• Managing campaign activation across PPC and Sponsored Search on multiple platforms and eCommerce sites such as Google Ads, Criteo, CitrusAd, Amazon Ads.
• Line managing junior colleagues and help facilitate their career development.
• Developing relationships with external stakeholders in the digital marketplace and managing multiple diverse projects across the SMG group, from 1PD activations through to geo-located 3PD targeting.
• Delivering digital consultancy and knowledge learning programs and collaborating across traditional and digital specialists to create holistic, full-funnel strategies to drive ROI and sales uplift.

What you'll need to have / be

• Detailed knowledge of performance marketing, from audience/keyword planning through to activation and measurement functions.
• Demonstrable experience in delivering consultancy and knowledge building training projects using specialist knowledge.
• Demonstrable experience using dashboard/insights tools to understand measurement of campaign delivery and using this to inform optimisations.
• Previous line management experience, specifically with more junior team members.
• An articulate communicator and public-speaker able to convey technical information to both internal and external audiences.
• An excellent attention to detail with strong numerical skills and proficient in the use of excel.

P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.

The best bits

Here at SMG we are dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here's some of our favourites...

💰 Generous discretionary bonus scheme

🧘‍♂️ £1,200 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions

📚 £500 yearly “Uni Fund” towards learning and development

🎧 Free headspace subscription

🕐 4pm Friday finishes all year round

🥳 Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year

The process

1. We will invite you to a first interview which we try to keep relatively informal, so it gives you the opportunity to share your authentic self. The hiring team will be looking to understand more about your experience and why you're interested in working with us.
2. There will be a second interview which will last a little longer, and involve some form of task to showcase your ability to do the role.
3. We then invite you to a meet & greet which is an opportunity for you to meet the team you'll be joining and ask them questions about the role and wider business.

🌟 Helping you shine 🌟

We are committed to helping you shine and show your full potential by making any changes you might need throughout your application. If you need an alternative way of applying for this role, support with understanding the role and its requirements, changes to be made to the way we hold our interviews, or anything else, then please reach out to us. You can either let us know on your application form or contact the people team to discuss how we can help on careers@shoppermediagroup.com.

🤝 SMG are proud to be an equal opportunities employer 🤝 

We are fully committed to providing equality in the workplace and ensure all opportunities for, and during employment, will be afforded to individuals fairly and irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race including colour, ethnic or national origins and nationality, religion or belief or sexual orientation ("the protected characteristics"). We want our organisation to reflect the diversity of our communities and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. More information on what we are doing can be found here.

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