Search Assistant – London – £24k

Job title: Search Assistant
Salary: To £24,000
Location: London
Industry: Media Agency

This vacancy has been placed

Company Information:

PHD London is a strategic led media planning and buying agency and part of a growing PHD network. It sits alongside OMD as part of the Omnicom Media Group. PHD launched in the UK in 1990, built on a culture of creativity and innovation. We substantially invest in this culture as it generates a unique, energetic and infectious working environment. An environment where people are motivated by ‘the new’.

We encapsulate our essence in one word; that word is ‘Pioneering’.

This word acts as a shorthand to guide everything we do – from how we come up with ideas through to how we treat our clients. You can see it in the quality of our people, our work, the way we service our clients through to our proprietary tools. Our mission is to pioneer the quality of thinking and execution within all communications.

Every year the company completes a cultural audit and without fail a significant finding is that PHD is the ‘nicest’ company people have worked for. We seem to have more than our fair share of decent, nice people who look out for each other.

For further information, please visit www.phdnetwork.com

Job Description:

- The role will involve planning and account managing multiple high profile search accounts. You will be expected to translate client briefs into cohesive and innovative approaches for each of your clients and following through to ensure that this is delivered via our production centre.
- You will also be expected to report back both internally and externally on progress as well as highlighting new opportunities for clients across all areas of search.
- PHD are constantly seeking out new business and therefore the role will also involve supporting new business pitches when required.
- Working alongside
planners and buyers in all media will allow the successful candidate to learn how search marketing fits into the bigger picture of media and you will have the opportunity to work alongside all forms of media buying.

Areas of Responsibility:

- Managing and optimising PPC search campaigns
- Developing client plans and strategy across PPC & SEO
- Presenting findings, results, ideas and strategy to clients
- Working to support any new business pitches
- Data handling and manipulation for reporting and analysis purposes
- Mentoring a Search Assistant

Skills / Experience:

- Our Search Planner candidate is likely to have solid experience working in search marketing.
- Great client experience is essential together with excellent PPC skills and a general love of the internet and search in particular.
- Experience of SEO, Display & Affiliates is an advantage along with knowledge of tracking systems.
- The applicant should be proficient at using PowerPoint & Excel.
- Overall employees at PHD should be passionate and enthusiastic about what they do and not afraid to challenge concepts in order to achieve excellence.