Paid Strategy Manager

The Role

We are looking for a strategic, hands-on Paid Strategy Manager to own the full media buying proposition at Not On The High Street. Consolidating ownership of our two main paid channels — Paid Search (Google & Microsoft Ads, including YouTube) and Paid Social (Meta, TikTok, Pinterest and beyond) — this role gives a single, holistic owner end-to-end accountability for performance, audience strategy, testing, budget and reporting across paid media.
You'll be the engine of our paid media performance, running day-to-day buying, optimisation and budget allocation across the funnel. Paid Search will represent roughly 70% of your remit, with Paid Social making up the remaining 30% as you collaborate closely with our Creative Social Strategy Manager — feeding your data and insights into their content and creative strategy across Paid and organic social.

You'll work within our Marketing team at Not On The High Street, reporting to the Head of Marketing and sitting alongside the Creative Social Strategy Manager & Retention Strategy Manager, with a Performance Marketing Executive reporting into you. The ideal candidate is commercially minded, equally comfortable in the granular detail of campaign management as they are in setting strategy, and confident shifting budget between channels and audiences to find incremental growth. You’ll be hands-on with both PPC & Paid Social and self-sufficient, with the analytical rigour to defend every decision with data and the strategic instinct to see the bigger picture. Department Marketing Employment Type Full Time Location United Kingdom Workplace type Hybrid Compensation £60,000 / year Reporting To Head of Marketing

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This role's hiring manager: Dan Williams View Dan's Profile Accountabilities Paid Search (approx 70% of the role)

• Strategy & execution: Lead the strategy and day-to-day execution of all Paid Search activity across Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, including search, Shopping and Performance Max campaigns.
• YouTube & video: Own the strategy and execution of our brand-led YouTube activity, working with the Creative Social Strategy Manager and our creative teams to deliver full-funnel video campaigns.
• Performance monitoring: Daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly performance monitoring across all paid search activity, with proactive optimisation against KPIs.
• Optimisation & testing: Continuously test, optimise and iterate ad copy, creative, product feed, audience and bid strategies to maximise efficiency and incrementality.
  
  

Paid Social (approx 30% of the role)

• Hands-on management & buying: Own the day-to-day management, optimisation and buying across Paid Social platforms, with a primary focus on Meta and a growing footprint across TikTok, Pinterest and other emerging platforms.
• Audience & funnel strategy: Build out audience targeting, segmentation and retargeting strategies in line with our wider full-funnel approach.
• Creative collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with the Creative Social Strategy Manager, feeding performance data and audience insights into their creative briefs and providing structured feedback on creative performance.
• Campaign setup & QA: Build, launch and QA campaigns, ensuring product feeds, pixels, tracking and audiences are correctly configured and aligned across platforms.

Cross-channel ownership

• Full-funnel testing strategy: Own the audience, creative and incrementality testing roadmap across Paid Search and Paid Social, flexing budget between channels and platforms as performance dictates.
• Budget planning: Own budget planning and pacing across brand and performance marketing, ensuring spend is allocated efficiently against business goals.
• Data, analysis & reporting: Provide consolidated, single source-of-truth reporting on paid performance, surfacing insights and recommendations to the Head of Marketing and wider SLT.
• Audience & measurement infrastructure: Own our audience data, tracking and measurement set-up across the paid ecosystem ensuring we can attribute and learn from every test.
• Stakeholder collaboration: Liaise with key stakeholders across the business, including the Creative Social Strategy Manager, Brand & Experience, Commercial and Technology, to create unified, cross-channel campaigns.

Management of Performance Marketing Executive

• Upskilling and training: Impart knowledge and involve them in processes in order to give them a complete view of all performance marketing strategies and results

Some key skills and experience you’ll need... Technical skills:

• 5+ years hands-on experience managing Paid Search and Paid Social campaigns, ideally in-house or agency-side within eCommerce or a marketplace environment
• Deep, hands-on expertise across Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, including Performance Max, Shopping and YouTube
• Strong working experience with Meta Ads Manager, with experience activating across other paid social platforms (TikTok, Pinterest etc.)
• Strong analytical capability — Google Sheets, Google Analytics, Looker & Count
• Track record of designing and executing incrementality, audience and creative testing strategies. Experience with a measurement platform such as Triple Whale or Dema preferred
• Experience managing significant budgets across both brand-building and performance objectives

Human skills:

• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and passion for the NOTHS brand
• Commercially minded with a test-and-learn mindset and a desire to continually improve
• Highly organised and comfortable juggling multiple channels, campaigns and stakeholders
• A strong communicator who collaborates well across teams, particularly with creative and brand partners
• Flexible in your approach — digital marketing is constantly evolving and you'll need to keep up with the latest updates and case studies
• Comfortable making data-driven trade-offs between channels, funnel stages and audiences
• You have an understanding of our position as a marketplace and how our work directly affects the businesses that make up our unique company

Don’t meet every single requirement? No problem. Your strengths, passion & fresh perspective could be just what we’re looking for - so we encourage you to apply! What we offer Our perks It's super important to us to make sure everyone feels safe and looked-after, which is why we've got a wide range of benefits in place. From supporting you and your loved ones with healthcare to cheeky 'just because' gifts, we're here for you.

We've got a ton of good stuff for everyone - like private medical insurance, a health cash plan, an electric vehicle scheme, mental health platform access, cycle to work scheme, and a 20% discount on our website. To find out more about what we offer, have a look here. We've also worked very hard to come up with a set of policies to support our people in any situation- like medicalised leave, menstrual leave, and primary carer leave.
Full-time NOTHS-ers get 25 days of holidays each year (plus bank hols!), as well as having the opportunity to work from anywhere for two calendar months a year. Did someone say beach holiday?

How we work Here at NOTHS, we embrace a remote-first approach to work, recognising the value of flexibility and the diverse talents that remote teams bring to the table. Our remote work culture is designed to empower our employees, foster collaboration, and create a community that transcends physical boundaries.

Under this framework, all of us operate remotely, convening as teams at regular intervals that suit each team best. These gatherings serve various purposes, including ideation sessions, hackathons, or simply fostering valuable face-to-face interactions.

Every quarter, we hold a Get Together and the whole company meets for a fun-filled day (with no shortage of food!) with some special guests... our small brand Partners!
Want to find out more? Take a look here.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion DEI is really important to us and that’s why everyone’s welcome at Not On The High Street – whoever they are, whatever their background.

We are committed to embracing and encouraging our employees’ uniquenesses- whether this is in age, people with disabilities, ethnicity, family structures, gender, LGBTQ+ identity, lower income backgrounds, race, religion, the intersectionality or all/any of these and other aspects making us who we are. We take pride in treating all of our employees fairly and we want our people to feel respected, valued and recognised within the workplace. As part of your application, you’ll be asked to complete an optional demographic survey to help us learn more about who wants to work with us. Responses will only be used to help us figure out how to make our team even more inclusive and attract more brilliant people to join us!

We'll also ask whether you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to the interview process should you need them and you can answer this question should you choose to in the application phase. Apply to join Team NOTHS! Our recruitment processes are fully remote, taking advantage of the wonders of modern-day technology. We’d love to hear more about you, your experience and why you want to join our team. Good luck! About Not On The High Street We are Not On The High Street We're here to help customers discover amazing products for all of life's needs; whether they're looking for a gift or something for themselves. We provide small brands across the UK with an engaged customer base, expert business support and ready-made tech and data infrastructure.

We’re home to 5,000+ phenomenal small creative brands that we are proud to call our Partners. So we’re doing all we can to shine a light on these dynamic entrepreneurs, waving the flag for small businesses and generally championing their socks off. We are looking to build on this momentum to drive our business to the next level. And that’s where you come in. Apply Now Our Hiring Process Stage 3:

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