We have an excellent, career making senior digital opportunity within a global digital transformation agency with head office based in Glasgow. A hybrid approach, you would expect to work within this vibrant, modern office a minimum of 2 days/week. The Search Marketing Manager position in this award winning agency is vital to building long-lasting meaningful consultative relationships with clients, building the abilities of the team and helping deliver the corporate vision to challenge the status quo in the digital sector. You will play a key role in the development and implementation of search strategies for your clients and the growth of the angency’s offering overall. You are responsible for creating strategies that hit and exceed client targets and expectations while helping to expand the volume and type of campaigns that you run. It’s essential that you are an expert in all things Search, possessing an industry leading understanding in terms of creating, optimising and reporting on effective strategies across differing channels and industries including a solid knowledge of AI. Your role will also see you assist the Search Team Lead in building out the team’s offering, both within the agency and externally to clients, and to potential new business prospects. Main Responsibilities Create and implement outstanding Search campaigns for allocated clients, ensuring all aspects of performance are monitored. Responsible for producing achievable, engaging forecasts and targets for your clients and then ensuring they are delivered. Conduct insightful audits of your current campaigns to identify new opportunities and develop strategies to meet campaign objectives. You’ll think outside the box when it comes to understanding how to plan and then deliver an effective strategy for key client accounts. Be the champion of quality within the team and drive the team’s output in line with the agency’s high standards. Maintain high levels of satisfaction and retention of clients across the function, regularly meeting with them to plan, execute, and monitor campaigns. Collaborate with other members of the team and wider agency, in particular the marketing team and client services, in order to meet client goals. Keep abreast of latest industry trends, the broader digital media landscapes, guidelines, and changes. Provide reports on completed activities and share campaign results with wider team to evaluate success, failures and suggest ways to improve and innovate for future projects, following identification of relevant measures to effectively monitor success. Provide support to the client services team, acting as a point of escalation for clients, as well as assisting in delivering client specific strategies for campaigns. You’ll be partly responsible for sharing learnings and updates with the marketing team and wider business when appropriate and integrating wherever possible. You’ll be accountable for establishing and following processes within the team, organising and prioritising workload whilst working to deadlines and allocated budgets. Work with the business development department to identify and act upon new business opportunities. The Ideal Candidate You have a background in one or more Search channels, with an understanding of the roles they play in the wider Digital Marketing mix Proven experience of delivering Search campaigns. Paid Media / SEO / AI / Shopper. You have experience supporting junior team members You are forward-thinking and proactive Have an analytical mind-set with the ability to work with large data sets with excellent quantitative skills You build great rapport with clients and your colleagues You understand other digital marketing channels and how Search can work as part of a wider mix as well as in their own right. You are proficient at using industry leading tools, including but not limited to: Google Analytics, Search Console, Accuranker, Ahrefs, Moz, Google Ads Salary to £50,000 fantastic benefits, taking this to a package of c£56,000. Unparalleled career opportunities. FURTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Gilchrist Recruitment Partnership are a specialist recruitment agency and recruiting partner within the Marketing, Digital communications/PR, Creative & Design and Advertising industry for Scotland, both agency and client side. When submitting your application, please outline your current salary, salary expectations and notice period. It is also essential that you are already legally permitted to work in the UK with the associated paperwork if you are not a UK citizen. If you are not currently living in Scotland, please explain/outline your plans and timelines for relocation to Scotland. We are a Scottish based recruiter who generally do not represent “remote” opportunities - thus you will be either living in Scotland or have solid plans to relocate. We cannot guarantee a response to each individual application, made necessary by the level of response we receive. We will contact only those candidates we wish to shortlist. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that no applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race. Unless clearly stated otherwise, the advertised position is a permanent contract.