Senior Specialist, Paid Search

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

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Role Description:

We are seeking a Senior Specialist, Paid Search to join our team as part of the Search & Display Media team. You’ll have attention to detail, tenacity, and a focus on results, working patiently with cross-organisational teams. You’ll see the size of this organisation, the number of collaborators and the complexity of our products as a great opportunity to play a critical role in an increasingly successful international business. This role requires a deep understanding of paid search advertising, a data-driven mentality, and a creative approach to campaign management. The ideal candidate will have a consistent track record of driving successful paid search initiatives that meet business goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Expand our customer acquisition strategy through the paid search channel.
• Handle campaign implementation, ongoing management and optimisation.
• You’ll directly run the day-to-day and long-term relationship of a paid media agency who will serve as our execution and delivery arm.
• Ensure all campaigns operate to agreed budget and return on investment.
• Tracking & understanding performance beyond website conversions, drilling into post conversion data to understand the sales funnel.
• Establish and maintain a clear Test and Learn plan to increase reach, optimise click-through rate, optimise conversion rate and maximise customer lifetime value.
• Work closely with the analytics and insights functions to measure and validate the incrementality of existing and new initiatives.
• Proactively build cases to drive incremental sales with an incremental budget.
• Analyse competitor paid search strategies to find opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Deliver daily/weekly/monthly and ad-hoc reports as advised.
• Actively identify customer friction points and propose improvements. Create and share value cases with relevant partners to influence, get the agreement and agree on a timeline for solution implementation.
• Act as the primary point of contact for paid search-related matters across the organization. Prepare and present detailed reports and PowerPoint presentations on campaign performance, strategies, and insights to business partners, including senior leadership.
• Work with internal partners to enhance overall performance of the Digital Marketing Team.
• Stay updated with the latest paid search trends, tools, and standard methodologies to ensure ongoing optimization and innovation.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

• 4+ years’ experience managing paid search campaigns.
• A passion for developing and implementing paid search strategies that drive traffic, conversions, and return on investment, with the ability to report performance against business metrics
• Expertise in managing and optimizing PPC campaigns across Google Ads, Bing Ads, and other search engines
• Proven track record to collaborate and handle relationships with specialist agencies to deliver successful paid search campaigns
• Strong understanding of keyword research, bid management, and campaign performance analysis
• In-depth knowledge of web analytics tools, particularly Adobe Analytics & Google Analytics to track and improve campaign performance
• Hands-on experience with PPC management tools and practices, including A/B testing, ad copy creation, and landing page optimisation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English)
• Strong analytical, prioritisation, and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple campaigns simultaneously
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data & generate actionable insights.
• Proficiency using Excel, using pivot tables to analyse data.
• Putting together presentations in PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with SEM tools such as SEMrush or Moz
• Experience with conversion rate optimisation (CRO) and understanding of user experience (UX) principles
• Knowledge of advanced targeting and remarketing strategies
• Experience in large-scale digital marketing projects or campaigns, including cross-functional collaboration with creative and technical teams

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days’ holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year’s continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks’ paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company’s policy and guidelines

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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