Paid Search Manager (UK)

Moving your career forward

Our CEO, Angus spotted that many vans on the roads are half full or empty at any given time and so AnyVan was born in 2009 to create the world's most efficient technology logistics platform and help halve the number of miles driven.

We've achieved incredible milestones since then, including securing the largest funding round for a UK tech logistics company from Vitruvian Partners. Today, AnyVan is the largest and fastest-growing company in the logistics space, with big ambitions for the future.

We're committed to moving that's miles better and have helped over 8 million customers across the UK, Ireland and Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Spain) and over 150,000 customers have rated us excellent on Trustpilot.

By using innovative technology, we're transforming the moving experience, cutting costs and doing our part for the planet to make sure moving doesn't cost the earth. We've saved enough miles to travel 1,185 times around the world, reduce 8520 tonnes of carbon annually and are proud to be the only carbon neutral removals and delivery company in the UK!!!

We're looking for passionate individuals to join our talented team of approx. 300 AnyVanners in our London and Cape Town offices. If you're as driven as we are and want to be part of a forward-thinking company to make moving 'miles better' and moving your career forward at the same time - we'd love to hear from you!

We're looking for a commercially focused Paid Search Manager to support our UK efforts across Google, Bing and beyond. As the only paid search specialist for the UK, you'll have the opportunity to drive truly cutting edge experimentation and campaign expansions backed by strong data science and product support. 

What you'll be doing:

• Oversee campaign management and optimisation across all areas of paid search, maximising the full suite of tools (search, display, demand gen, remarketing, etc).

• Outthink the competition by leading on our experimentation plans.

• Responsible for the ROAS of your campaigns, and reporting back to stakeholders, this will include ensuring we have the right tracking in place, and also fully understanding additional channel overlap, to ensure true incrementality. 

• Work with marketing and product across the funnel to ensure paid traffic is highly converted, for example, ensuring your landing pages are optimised for, and CRM flows are matched to search intent.

• Working with data science to ensure that we are continuing to build tools and models that enable us to target the right customers, and locations, and maximise efficiency.

• Collaborating and being part of creative campaigns that support and collaborate with the work of others in the marketing team (Brand, CRM, Partnerships etc).

• Ensuring that all lessons learned and best practices can also be scaled to the other territories outside of the UK. 

What you'll need to succeed:

• Good experience in a Paid Search role in a fast moving digital consumer business.

• A proven track record delivering successful B2C paid search campaigns that drive growth and a deep knowledge of paid search best practices.

• Highly commercial, you must be able to measure and understand the impact of your work on key business metrics such as revenue generation. 

• Excellent communication skills,  you are articulate and can explain complex subjects in simple terms.

• Ability to work at pace, balancing the need to execute on an organised experiment calendar, as well as capitalise on ad hoc opportunities.

• As part of our small team, you’ll need a hands-on, can-do attitude. You’re someone who’s self-motivated and knows how to drive results.

• Collaborative and influential, you can gain buy-in from, and manage relationships with multiple stakeholders across technology and business operations.

• A strong alignment with our company values and able to make an impact!

• Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. All applicants must be currently located in and fully eligible to work in the UK without any visa support.

Perks of the job:

• A highly competitive base salary that reflects your value

• Take a Break: 25 days of holiday plus public holidays, Christmas Eve on us and Long Term Service perks capped at 30days

• Keeping you healthy: In house gym, the opportunity to join Vitality with a hole host of wellbeing benefits and medical cover and enhanced sick pay

• Prepare for the future: The People's Pension with 5% employee and 3% employer contributions

• Family leave: enhanced maternity pay

• Travel: We're 2 mins walk from the tube, partner with Octopus Electric Vehicles and Evans Cycle to Work scheme, and have showers and towels if you cycle!

• Keeping you refreshed: Enjoy an in-house barista and free breakfast every day and access to discounts at local shops/restaurants

• Social Scene: Thursday drinks and regular social activities

• Celebrating Success: 1/4 performance awards with prizes and an annual performance awards - last years winner enjoyed a 4 day all expenses paid trip to the French alps!

• Skills Booster: Opportunity to join a disruptive Technology Leader and be part of a fast-growing, innovative company reshaping the industry

Ways of Working:

We’re big fans of in-person collaboration and the connections that come from being together.  That’s why all of our roles need you to be in the office regularly. But we do offer hybrid working where possible. In this situation, we ask for a minimum of 3 days a week in the office, and we all meet up every Thursday as a company.  This could change depending on what the business needs at the time.

DE&I

We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where every voice is heard, every perspective is valued, and every individual has the opportunity to thrive. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to be part of our mission and contribute to our vibrant culture.

Our company values are:

• Have fun, get it done (work hard play hard, satisfaction in results, do the right thing)

• Progress over perfection (Innovate and disrupt, Curious and adaptable, Work quick, learn quicker)

• One team thinking big (Collaborate and communicate, Celebrate wins , Embrace challenges)