Senior Search Specialist

**Job Description**:
MBM is one of NZ’s leading strategic media companies with offices in Auckland and Wellington. We work with many of New Zealand’s best known brands and provide our clients with services including cross-channel media strategy and planning, negotiations and media buying, digital campaign management, paid search & SEO, social media, analytics and data science, plus content strategy and production. We have won numerous awards for our work including three time IAB Agency of the Year and Beacons Media Agency of the Year (twice). We strive for doing great work and cultivating a supportive, respectful and fun company culture.

**Role Purpose**

Working inside a team led by a Search Director, this role is responsible for all aspects of paid search campaigns on behalf of MBM clients. This role is self-managing, with client service, task management, mentoring and business development requirements.

**What you will do**
- Work directly with key clients to maximise their search results, developing and implementing PPC recommendations
- Support the Business and Digital Directors in their client relationship and performance media requirements
- Develop proactive discussion papers and initiatives specific to client needs
- Liaise with the clients through campaign implementation and in-market optimisation
- Lead client relationships via active account management - attendance at WIP, actions and minute follow up and delivery of initiatives as agreed
- Run efficient & profitable PPC projects from beginning to end, actively managing campaigns to ensure optimum results for clients, and making changes as required by the client or other partners.
- Follow MBM's best practice search campaign management process and evolve as required
- Work inside a team to develop RFI/RFP and pitch responses
- Identify opportunity & develop proposals for increased investment, additional MBM opportunities or Publicis teams e.g. Analytics and SEO
- Take hands-on ownership of client activity within a client portfolio
- Proactively lead the process around reporting, budget management, pacing and delivery across the team
- Work with the data supplied by the reporting platforms to create insightful campaign performance reports (both interim and final) to be presented internally and to clients using Data Studio, Excel &/or Powerpoint
- Stay abreast of platform developments and maintain technical proficiency & platform certifications
- Work with and mentor junior staff members on campaign development and planning process
- Develop & maintain professional relationships with publishers and external teams as required eg Google NZ.

**Qualifications**:
**About you**
- Extensive & proven paid search experience
- Excellent client service skills & background
- Up to date certifications in Google Ads & Analytics
- Strong knowledge of Google Analytics
- Good understanding of SEO
- Proficient with Microsoft Office, especially Excel & Powerpoint,
- Good working knowledge of DataStudio
- Working knowledge of Merchant Center & Google Shopping
- Relevant degree.

**Our offer to you**
- Work with the best of the best in strategic leadership, digital nous and analytics capability
- A fun and rewarding team culture where collaboration is key
- All the benefits of being part of a global network with a Whole-self program, Learning & Development opportunities, flexible working, and an industry-leading parental leave policy
- Confidential 24 hour support via our employee assistance programme.

Additional Information

We are diverse though our experience, people and the clients we look after - and we celebrate that diversity. Our people hold us accountable to our beliefs and via regular surveys and our grass roots D&I team, The Collective, and internal next generation board, Firestarters, we hold regular events and work continually towards generating ideas, initiatives and educating our people to ensure we are a diverse and inclusive agency.