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The Role

Ventura Digital is seeking a strategic thinker to evaluate, analyse and strategise data. You will help turn that data into inspiring insights. Ideally, a Social Insights Analyst who has a keen interest in the
data research around social media, preferably coming from a business, marketing or economics background. As a Social Insights Analyst at Ventura, you will learn how to use the industry’s leading social media
analytics tools to craft insightful stories and analysis using data gleaned from social media conversations. Using social media data and your analytical skills, you will become a specialist in understanding how
consumers react to brands and content on social media, creating and crafting reports that highlight themes in conversation. The role will focus on working with the Social Insights team in interpreting data and translating it into impactful takeaways. You should be adept at managing projects within tight
timelines.

What you’ll do

• Support Social Insights team in the process of planning and executing social listening and insights projects by monitoring social conversation and trends. This could include tasks like
  collecting historical data on brands to create performance benchmarks, etc.
• Strong interest and capacity to translate data and research into strategic insights and recommendations
• Passion for working with data and deriving insights to answer client business questions
• Capture and track all relevant information about brands social accounts in our suite of tools
• Social listening tool setup including keywords, query parameters, and dashboards

Analysing Social Media Listening

• Understand social media metrics, social listening tools and analytics.
• Write Boolean queries for social listening topics.
• Interpret data and measure against organizational objectives.
• Tell stories with data

What you’ll bring to the table

• BA or BS (Digital Marketing, Public Relations, Online Journalism, New Media, or related field)
• Ability to manage high levels of inbound conversation and respond within the desired time frame
• Prior experience pulling and analysing data.
• Ability to work within strict time constraints while balancing multiple projects
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact at all levels of the
  team
• A collaborative teammate who is able to work in a constantly evolving environment
• Passionate about research, marketing, emerging media, and technology
• Strong PowerPoint/Excel and Google Slide/Sheet skills

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with primary research methodologies and analysis
• Knowledge of a variety of social insight methodologies and their applications

Benefits of joining our team

• Salary dependant on experience
• Excellent benefits package
• Four day working week

About Us

Enough about what we require from you, here’s some information on us. 

We are a digital agency, established in 2017 by an ex-Hootsuite employee looking to build a team of eCommerce experts specialising in performance marketing and value creation. We create scalable campaigns designed to fill a client’s pipeline, from helping to implement sophisticated tracking and targeting capabilities to building end-to-end performance marketing strategies. 

We work with a growing number of industry-leading clients, including an independent men’s footwear brand, a sports-based YouTube channel with over 350,000 subscribers and a local cocktail brand – no two days at Ventura HQ are ever the same!

At Ventura, we give you the space to stand out as an individual. You will be an integral part of the team, expected to deliver results and understand each client as an individual business with its own goals and targets. 

The marketing landscape is constantly changing, and Ventura is right at its centre.

The Role

As a Paid Media Account Executive at Ventura, you will be given the opportunity to manage, plan, develop, implement and optimise a variety of paid campaigns across multiple clients and industries; utilising all social media channels with a primary focus on Facebook and Instagram but will have the opportunity to test on other platforms too.

Create and implement a leading-edge analytical, test and learn culture so that the effectiveness of Ventura Group’s Paid Social clients continuously increase.

Determine Paid Social strategies for Ventura Group and its clients and champion delivery of the agreed strategy.

Champion the role of Paid Social in all sales, retention and communication activity and provide digital knowledge input into customer and proposition development.

Reports to the Managing Director.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Having a strong understanding of paid social channels, specifically Facebook, Instagram and Linkedin 
• Develop Paid Social strategy and targeted multi-channel marketing programs for clients that help them successfully build profitable, long-term relationships with their customers
• Represent CRO in the design thinking and ensure the success of goal conversion in all digital initiatives
• Understand the role of paid search within performance marketing strategies and work with Ventura team to implement an effective channel-agnostic approach to performance 
• Stay current on the latest technologies and identify new opportunities, undertake training and further learning where necessary. 
• Pursue personal development of skills and knowledge necessary for the effective growth of your own knowledge base/skillset
• Actively participate in new business initiatives; create statements of work and client proposals
• Ability to identify new opportunities, test, learn and maximise performance.
• Excel in the communication to Ventura Group team, management and it’s clients on project development, timelines, and results
• Manage campaign budgets and budgets allocated by clients
• A paid social visionary with the ultimate goal to increase revenue and market share within these channels across all accountable clients
• Regularly report on the performance and ongoing optimisation for each allocated client 
• Building large-scale paid social campaigns
• Formulating reports based on results and analysis of campaigns
• Understanding metrics and data, including being able to manipulate them
• Oversee the Junior role in terms of allocating work and providing Mentoring and training as required

Account Management

With your role, you will manage multiple clients including full autonomy on clients and be responsible for their day to day account management. Direct client liaison is an integral part of your role.  You will build relationships and be responsible for retaining clients. The ability to cross-sell and upsell is important.  

Ensuring that time allocated to clients matches their monthly allocated hours and implementing a commercial thought process in decision making is required to ensure profitability for the Agency.

Outcomes

• Performance of campaigns will be within agreed measures of success for your clients
• Clients will feel that the service that they receive from Ventura is proactive and that we really care about their brand and performance
• The team feel that you are a valued member of the department, who contributes to the overall success of the team

Benefits of joining our team

• Salary dependant on experience
• Excellent benefits package
• Four day working week

About Us

Enough about what we require from you, here’s some information on us. 

We are a digital agency, established in 2017 by an ex-Hootsuite employee looking to build a team of eCommerce experts specialising in performance marketing and value creation. We create scalable campaigns designed to fill a client’s pipeline, from helping to implement sophisticated tracking and targeting capabilities to building end-to-end performance marketing strategies. 

We work with a growing number of industry-leading clients, including an independent men’s footwear brand, a sports-based YouTube channel with over 350,000 subscribers and a local cocktail brand – no two days at Ventura HQ are ever the same!

At Ventura, we give you the space to stand out as an individual. You will be an integral part of the team, expected to deliver results and understand each client as an individual business with its own goals and targets. 

The marketing landscape is constantly changing, and Ventura is right at its centre.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Paid Media Executive to join our growing digital team in Colchester, Essex.

The candidate will have a proven track record of running successful paid campaigns, with experience working with clients and people at different levels. As a Senior Paid Media Executive, you will strive to understand your clients’ objectives and any challenges that they face, whilst continuously optimising performance and brainstorming new ways to help them drive their business forward.

Managing and implementing paid media projects will be your bread and butter, consistently smashing client expectations and delivering outstanding results. It will be your responsibility to ensure best-in-class digital marketing techniques are being implemented for every client, generating positive results and reaching targets.

This is a fantastic opportunity for any experienced individuals looking to further their career or use their in-depth paid media skills on a wide range of client campaigns from a number of industries. 

Duties and Responsibilities

As a Senior Paid Media Executive, you will be part of a tightly-knit team. Your duties will include:

• Hands-on creation and optimisation of strategies
• Implementation of strategies for a range of clients, working to drive results specific to each individual client
• Daily management of Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google Adwords advertising campaigns to drive positive results 
• Reporting and presenting weekly KPIs and insights for high profile clients, alongside reviewing reports for other paid media clients
• Consistent analysis and campaign check-ins, assisting other members of the team with optimisation 
• Generating ideas of how to improve performance, utilising A/B testing methodologies
• Leading a team of executives and sharing knowledge 
• Managing clients – including their expectations
• Supporting the production of proposals and scope of works

Required skills

To be considered for this role, you will need to demonstrate the following:

• At least 3 years experience in a similar role
• Proven record of delivering successful paid media campaigns 
• Experience setting up and managing paid media campaigns across a range of platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Google Ads and LinkedIn
• Be proficient in using Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and other CRO and data tracking tools
• Ability to analyse and improve campaign results
• Best-in-class reporting skills, including outstanding written and verbal communication
• Outstanding organisational and time-keeping skills
• The ability to manage and drive results from a team
• Willingness to learn, ready to achieve new goals and strive to perform their best
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical skills
• Commercial awareness to support business growth 

Benefits of joining our team

• Regular team breakfasts
• Team-building activities and social events
• Free car parking and accessible bus routes
• 20 days holiday plus bank holidays
• 9am-5pm office hours, with one hour allocated for lunch
• Four day working week

About Us

Enough about what we require from you, here’s some information on us. 

We are a digital agency, established in 2017 by an ex-Hootsuite employee looking to build a team of eCommerce experts specialising in performance marketing and value creation. We create scalable campaigns designed to fill a client’s pipeline, from helping to implement sophisticated tracking and targeting capabilities to building end-to-end performance marketing strategies. 

We work with a growing number of industry-leading clients, including an independent men’s footwear brand, a sports-based YouTube channel with over 350,000 subscribers and a local cocktail brand – no two days at Ventura HQ are ever the same!

At Ventura, we give you the space to stand out as an individual. You will be an integral part of the team, expected to deliver results and understand each client as an individual business with its own goals and targets. 

The marketing landscape is constantly changing, and Ventura is right at its centre.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Paid Ads Manager to join our growing digital team in Colchester, Essex. The person filling this role will be an integral part to the growth of the paid media department, implementing processes and structure in line with objectives, targets and company ethos.

The candidate will lead our paid advertising marketing team, drawing on over 5 years of experience in order to support and manage client accounts.

Experience building successful paid strategies alongside overseeing the execution of these strategies, ready to build on an already in-depth understanding of paid media channels, including Facebook, Google Ads and LinkedIn. The candidate will have an interest in keeping on top of updates and changes to the digital landscape alongside looking to support the paid ads team, sharing industry knowledge and providing training where necessary.

As a strategic thinker, you will be ready to analyse campaigns for a range of clients, suggesting improvements to optimise campaign performance and reach targets. Gaining an ongoing understanding of each client and their business to suggest effective optimisation of the strategy, alongside presenting reports directly back to clients and building on these relationships.

Duties and Responsibilities

As a Paid Media Manager, you will be part of a tightly-knit team. Your duties will include:

• Leading and supporting the implementation of our client’s paid marketing strategies, with a particular focus on social advertising campaigns across a range of channels
• Examining correlations between prospecting activities, revenue, and budget
• Measuring and continuously optimising our client’s paid social campaigns using vendor-specific dashboards i.e. Google Analytics, Google Data Studios, Google Cloud, Facebook’s analytics and attribution platforms
• Researching and testing partnerships with new vendors to expand our clients reach and/or lower cost-per-acquisition
• Collaborating with marketing teammates to maintain a consistent brand voice and message across all paid programs, for multiple clients
• Crafting landing pages and lead-gen forms to distribute through relevant paid programs 
• Coordinating, supervising, training and inspiring members of our paid marketing team
• Staying up-to-date with digital marketing trends and potential new channels and strategies to keep us ahead, including updates to social media marketing, attribution and programmatic media buying
• Monitoring market intelligence and keep track of competitor movement and market situation
• Experience using data visualization tools such as PowerBI and Tableau a bonus but not essential
• Utilising a commercial understanding to expand business opportunities 
• Managing client relationships, including expectations
• Ability to learn and adapt skills to a range of clients across a number of industries

Required skills

To be considered for this role, you will need to demonstrate the following:

• Previous working experience as as a paid media (social ar paid search) manager/strategy for 5+ years
• A proven track record of successful paid social campaigns
• In-depth knowledge of social advertising channels and technologies including Facebook Business Manager and LinkedIn Campaign Manager
• In-depth knowledge of and experience implementing A/B testing methodologies
• Knowledge of the various paid marketing channels and technologies, including paid search, retargeting, and content distribution and placement networks
• Hands-on experience in handling marketing budgets and forecasting/reporting results
• Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills – including both written and verbal communication skills
• Outstanding organisational and time management skills
• Ability to drive results from a team
• Strategic thinker with great analytical skills

Benefits of joining our team

• Regular team breakfasts
• Team-building activities and social events
• Free car parking and accessible bus routes
• 20 days holiday plus bank holidays
• 9am-5pm office hours, with one hour allocated for lunch
• Four day working week

About Us

Enough about what we require from you, here’s some information on us. 

We are a digital agency, established in 2017 by an ex-Hootsuite employee looking to build a team of eCommerce experts specialising in performance marketing and value creation. We create scalable campaigns designed to fill a client’s pipeline, from helping to implement sophisticated tracking and targeting capabilities to building end-to-end performance marketing strategies. 

We work with a growing number of industry-leading clients, including an independent men’s footwear brand, a sports-based YouTube channel with over 350,000 subscribers and a local cocktail brand – no two days at Ventura HQ are ever the same!

At Ventura, we give you the space to stand out as an individual. You will be an integral part of the team, expected to deliver results and understand each client as an individual business with its own goals and targets. 

The marketing landscape is constantly changing, and Ventura is right at its centre.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced PPC and Search Executive to join our growing digital team in Colchester, Essex.

The candidate will be a hands-on individual, ready to manage a range of client accounts. You will be expected to assist in the planning, building and execution of strategic campaigns, working to deliver outstanding results that continue to grow.

You will be expected to have knowledge of how to set up and run PPC campaigns, whilst continuously implementing best practices and using expertise to maximise the results of every campaign.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual looking to build on experience and grow their knowledge of working with a range of clients from a number of industries. 

Duties and Responsibilities

As a PPC and Search Executive, you will be part of a tightly-knit team. Your duties will include:

• Creating, planning and managing a variety of PPC and Search campaigns across a range of digital channels
• Oversee and optimise existing campaigns, gaining experience from success and apply to future campaigns
• Provide analysis of trends and make data-driven decisions
• Create engaging ad copy that follows best-practises and articulates client USPs
• Ensure conversion tracking and other KPI measurements are in place
• Report and present data analysis from campaigns back to clients
• Managing clients – including their expectations
• Supporting the production of proposals and scope of works

Required skills

To be considered for this role, you will need to demonstrate the following:

• Hands-on PPC and Search experience
• Strong understanding and experience using Google Adwords, Search Network and Google Analytics
• Ability to analyse data and suggest improvements to execution
• Best-in-class reporting skills, including outstanding written and verbal communication
• Outstanding organisational and time-keeping skills
• The ability to drive results from and work as part of a team
• Willingness to learn, ready to achieve new goals and strive to perform their best
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical skills
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Commercial awareness to support business growth 

Benefits of joining our team

• Regular team breakfasts
• Team-building activities and social events
• Free car parking and accessible bus routes
• 20 days holiday plus bank holidays
• 9am-5pm office hours, with one hour allocated for lunch
• Four day working week

About Us

Enough about what we require from you, here’s some information on us. 

We are a digital agency, established in 2017 by an ex-Hootsuite employee looking to build a team of eCommerce experts specialising in performance marketing and value creation. We create scalable campaigns designed to fill a client’s pipeline, from helping to implement sophisticated tracking and targeting capabilities to building end-to-end performance marketing strategies. 

We work with a growing number of industry-leading clients, including an independent men’s footwear brand, a sports-based YouTube channel with over 350,000 subscribers and a local cocktail brand – no two days at Ventura HQ are ever the same!

At Ventura, we give you the space to stand out as an individual. You will be an integral part of the team, expected to deliver results and understand each client as an individual business with its own goals and targets. 

The marketing landscape is constantly changing, and Ventura is right at its centre.

The Digital SEO Strategist will be instrumental in driving our client’s performance. Reporting to the Managing Director, successful candidates will be highly analytical and have proven experience in SEO. 

Key requirements will include: 

• Good knowledge of SEO 
• Helping to develop and implement organic search strategies to help clients gain favourable results through SERPs. 
• Understanding of contents role in the digital marketing mix. 
• An interest in data and analytics, with a good understanding of how to utilise this insight and act on it 
• Good social media experience. Can demonstrate experience of platform management and use of social media tooling, recognizes the role of social media platforms in the sales process across paid, earned and owned channels. 
• Knowledge of demand generation funnels and a willingness to work towards revenue and lead generation targets. 
• Experience in marketing automation tools, CRM and e-commerce platforms 
• Ideally 4+ years in Digital Marketing 

Internally, the Digital SEO Strategist will work alongside the rest of the agency to ensure that they are embracing the latest digital marketing techniques. 

Success in this role relies on combining a high level of digital knowledge and skills with an aptitude for analytical analysis and the ability to interpret the data and act on it. The digital strategist will work closely with the agency sales lead, helping them identify opportunities within key accounts. The Digital SEO Strategist will be able to multitask and work to tight deadlines and needs to present in a calm and ordered fashion when dealing with clients, suppliers or internal colleagues. They will also need to have a thirst for knowledge to ensure that we keep up to date with the latest digital technology and implement it as required. 

A successful performer in the role will: 

• Analyse all available data to identify potential risks or flaws before suggesting solutions.
• Use the appropriate language and writing style to influence the recipients of the message. 
• Go out of their way to share information, expertise and learning with colleagues. 
• Use different strategies to deal with unexpected obstacles when engaged in marketing activities. 
• Track and monitor performance against plans and agreed objectives. 
• Be lead generation and sales focused. 
• Manage several simultaneous tasks and projects by prioritising effectively and monitoring progress. 
• Make sound decisions under pressure. 
• Think of new approaches to adapt and improve existing processes and practices. 
• Work closely with their colleagues to deliver the plans. 
• Structure ideas and information in a way that is likely to achieve acceptance and cooperation. 
• Draw data from a variety of sources to improve decision making. 
• Systematically collect all the relevant information to identify the root causes of the problem.
• Set high targets for customer satisfaction and measure results regularly. 
• Work towards defined targets and strive to exceed them. 

Benefits of joining our team

• 20 days holiday, pension and a whole bunch of office perks
• Free car parking and accessible bus routes
• 9am-5pm office hours, with one hour allocated for lunch
• Four day working week

Reference ID: IRDS31 

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent 

Salary: £35,000.00-£45,000.00 per year