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Blended agency delivering strategy, tech, content

Senior Paid Media Specialist

Performance & Paid MarketingUpdated on Nov 15
Full-timeAmsterdam, NetherlandsNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in paid media, including paid search, paid social, programmatic advertising, display, e-commerce campaigns, and feed management.
  • Ability to develop and implement campaign strategy and manage a client portfolio.
  • Experience with campaign budget management, performance reporting, and analysis.
  • Ability to advise clients and explain complex campaign decisions clearly.
  • Ability to develop domain vision, maintain campaign practices and quality standards, and provide subject-matter guidance to colleagues.
  • Ability to initiate and implement process improvements using AI and automation; hands-on AI development is not required.
  • Deep paid social knowledge is not required; the role works closely with senior Paid Social specialists.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a portfolio of clients and deliver paid media work at a high level of expertise.
  • Develop and implement search, social, display, and programmatic campaigns across platforms.
  • Manage and optimize product feeds for Google Shopping, display, and other channels using Channable.
  • Build and optimize e-commerce campaigns in Google Ads and Microsoft Ads against business objectives, using ROAS, Performance Max, and Smart Bidding.
  • Set, manage, and continuously optimize advertising budgets.
  • Analyze results using Google Analytics and Looker Studio and provide actionable recommendations.
  • Serve as the subject-matter contact for clients, proactively advising them and explaining campaign decisions.
  • Own the paid media domain's practices and develop its vision, including paid search and paid social.
  • Collaborate with Domain Leads in SEO, Data, and CRO, and report periodically to Service Line Marketing on the domain's progress and needs.
  • Organize at least one cross-campus knowledge-sharing session each month.
  • Maintain and develop team ways of working, including campaign structures, naming conventions, reporting standards, and quality assurance processes.
  • Provide peer reviews and subject-matter guidance to colleagues across campuses.
  • Onboard new colleagues in shared practices and tools.
  • Facilitate domain sync meetings focused on campaign data and outcomes.
  • Identify knowledge gaps, duplicated work, and opportunities, and communicate them to the capability.
  • Work with the AI/Agent Specialist to identify automation opportunities and implement process improvements, such as automated reporting, bidding analyses, and AI-generated ad copy.
  • Track paid media and AI-tooling developments and translate them into internal opportunities and client recommendations.

About the Company

iO

Blended agency delivering strategy, tech, content

iO is an end-to-end digital agency that unites strategy, technology, content, and marketing to serve as a single partner for brands. It delivers brand and experience design, digital platform development, cloud and data integration, marketing campaigns, and content production, with projects staffed by customized blended teams. Growth came through a buy-and-build strategy after a 2018 private equity investment, expanding across the Benelux and into Scandinavia with offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark for clients like Audi and AstraZeneca. Its goal is to help clients realize Infinite Opportunities by enabling digital transformation and sustained marketing impact through cohesive, cross-functional delivery.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Turnhout, Belgium
Founded
2005

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