{"id":12514,"date":"2025-06-27T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/job\/paid-search-specialist-social-specialist-programmatic-specialist\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:24:16","slug":"paid-search-specialist-social-specialist-programmatic-specialist","status":"expired","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/?post_type=job_listing&p=12514","title":{"rendered":"Paid Search Specialist \n\n\n            \n\n            \n            Social specialist \n\n\n            \n\n            \n            Programmatic Specialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overview<\/p>\n<p>\tWe are seeking an experienced digital Paid Media Specialist to drive innovative and highly effective digital marketing executions for our clients.<br \/>\n\tDevise and implement PPC strategies across a number of assigned client accounts and manage the campaigns in accordance with these strategies.<br \/>\n\tManage the day to day activities of these accounts including technical changes, analyzing and drawing insight from third party analytics data and implementing innovative management techniques to maximize campaign performance (specifically responsible for assisting and achieving significant results and delivering best practice management techniques across assigned client campaigns)<br \/>\n\tDevelop strong understanding of the products, competition, industry, marketing goals and objectives of each of your clients.<br \/>\n\tConfidence to manage agency relationships with client service and drive increased performance.<\/p>\n<p>Responsibilities<\/p>\n<p>\tKeep up to date with paid search advertising trends, techniques and industry related softwareImplement and manage paid search on Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, etc.<br \/>\n\tConduct detailed competitor research<br \/>\n\tConduct extensive keyword research, analyse and test keyword performance across multiple channels with multiple campaigns<br \/>\n\tSet-up and run paid search campaigns including writing adverts, bid management, advert placement and ongoing optimisation across various channelsUtilise bid management tools and data modelling to maximise the effectiveness of PPC campaigns<br \/>\n\tMonitoring keyword bids and daily\/monthly budget caps<br \/>\n\tReporting on quality scores, impressions, click through rates and other account metrics<br \/>\n\tKeyword research<br \/>\n\tCollaborate with agency team to ensure all activity is complementary, e.g. landing page split testing, tweaking and optimisation to deliver best possible click through and conversion ratesConduct A\/B testing to improve; 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