Paid Media Executive

About us!

RS Group is a global FTSE 100 distributor for engineers. We operate in 32 countries around the world with over 70% of our business now being delivered online.

In recent years we have created a truly global digital company with 60% of our sales attributed outside of the UK. We have created a digital presence which has won over 20 awards over the last months, generating over 13 million visits to our digital shop per month and driving £4m sales every day, placing RS as one of the leaders in B2B highest growing companies globally.

About the role:

The purpose of the Media Executive is to deliver the best-in-class digital solutions for our customers. You will be part of the team that looks after EMEA for the company, which includes a variety of markets across Europe.

You will be supporting the Digital Advertising Manager and Digital Advertising Strategist in short term and long-term plans to deliver the most effective result in sales, traffic, and other key performance indicators. As we are truly a global company you will be responsible for seamless communication with local teams in these markets.

The Team:

Our Digital Advertising team is based in London in our office in Pancras Square but we support Hybrid Working.

We are a large, multinational team, supporting the local markets across EMEA, delivering best in class digital solutions – we speak over 10 languages and operate across 32 countries! This is a multi-channel role where our campaigns and strategies include PPC, Display and Paid Social. We work with many search engines, from Google and Bing to Yahoo Japan, Baidu, Yandex, Naver and Seznam.

We have huge ambitions and are on a journey to create something very special, we have a clear vision of where we want to get to - a digital powerhouse with a seductive customer experience and a best in class digital team where talent can flourish, develop themselves whilst having a great time doing it.

We also provide an outstanding benefits package, which includes private health care, pension scheme, childcare vouchers, life assurance, season ticket loan and we have flexible working hours which helps supports your work/life balance.

What you will be doing:

• Working closely with the line Manager to ensure all Digital Advertising activity falls in line with the overall strategy
• Implementing, optimising and managing Paid channels campaigns across multiple markets.
• Ensuring all campaigns are up and optimised according to best practice guidelines
• Working with the content team to ensure keywords, landing pages and ad copies are effectively optimised to ensure maximum ROI and conversion is possible
• Managing and optimising bids strategy across multiple markets using third party tools
• Managing campaigns budgets accordingly
• Implementing A/B and multivariate testing to continuously improve ROI and account performance
• Analysing and reporting performance of all Digital advertising campaigns
• Keeping up to date with the latest industry trends and sharing knowledge with the team.
• Training and helping to define Digital Advertising activity and strategies for a host of stakeholders in the business
• Leading presentation of results, marketplace updates and competitive reports and insights

What we are looking for from you:

• A good level of understanding of Paid Media channels obtained either through previous work experience or your studies
• Experience in managing and optimising small/medium campaign budget is a strong plus
• Knowledge of different Google campaign types, having complete at least basic Google certification programme
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• An analytical and/or creative thinker with a curious thirst for knowledge
• Desire to learn and collaborate with other digital functions outside of Paid Media
• Fluent French, Italian or German language skills (a big plus but not mandatory)

The extras you will get:

At RS, our people’s success isn’t based on how long they spend at their desk. While you’ll have contracted hours, we offer a flexible environment. That might be working from home, logging on at one of our offices in your country location, working part-time or compressed hours. Let us know how you like to work.

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, and 30 days holiday, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation.
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD, and Tourette’s syndrome.
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery, and gender confirmation surgery
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.

We are RS…

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible. 

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world. 

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers. 

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues, and communities – to solve problems. 

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible, and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.

Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.