Performance Marketing Manager

• Performance Marketing Manager
• £350–£550 per day (Interim)
• Central London
• 3 months with view to extend

We’re working with a globally recognised live entertainment organisation that is investing heavily in the future of its digital marketing capability. As part of a significant transformation programme, our client is building a brand-new in-house paid media function to support a portfolio of high-profile events across multiple international markets.

This is a rare opportunity to join at the beginning of that journey, helping shape processes, influence strategy and make an immediate commercial impact within a fast-growing team.

The Paid Media Lead / Performance Marketing Manager will take ownership of paid acquisition campaigns across a dedicated regional market, driving ticket sales through highly effective digital advertising. You’ll work closely with the Head of Paid Media to establish best practice, improve performance and help build a scalable centre of excellence from the ground up.

Role Highlights

• Lead the planning, execution and optimisation of paid media campaigns across Meta, with growing activity on TikTok and Snapchat.
• Be highly implementation focused, with a hands-on approach to campaign delivery and optimisation.
• Build and manage campaigns from the ground up, ensuring strong commercial performance and return on investment.
• Analyse campaign performance, tracking and data to identify opportunities and continuously optimise results.
• Work confidently across platforms with strong technical expertise and a clear understanding of media tracking and performance measurement.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to deliver successful campaign launches across multiple live events.
• Strong project management skills will be essential to coordinate activity across fast-moving campaigns and stakeholders.
• Help establish scalable paid media processes as the new in-house function continues to grow.
• Support wider talent development as the team evolves, including helping identify interim talent and future perm talent as part of a move toward a more centralised team structure.

You Will Need

• Experience managing high-performing paid social campaigns.
• Proven expertise across Meta Ads Manager, with experience using TikTok and Snapchat advertising platforms.
• Strong technical platform knowledge, with hands-on experience in implementation, tracking and data-led optimisation.
• A commercially focused mindset with the ability to make confident decisions using imperfect or evolving data.
• Excellent project management skills and the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience delivering measurable acquisition and revenue growth.
• International market experience is highly desirable, with language or regional expertise preferred.
• Native or fluent language skills for your allocated market (Spanish, Dutch or German preferred). Candidates with extensive experience managing market campaigns using English will also be considered.

Why You’ll Love It

• Join a major digital transformation programme from day one.
• Genuine opportunity to influence how an international paid media function is built.
• Predominantly remote working with occasional collaborative office days.
• Fast decision-making interview process with immediate starts available.
• Work across an exciting international portfolio with significant media investment.
• Direct exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to shape future best practice.
• Clear opportunity to grow as the wider digital hub expands.

The interview process has been designed to move quickly, consisting of an initial conversation with the Operations team followed by a final interview with the Head of the Digital Hub.

Apply today to take ownership of high-impact paid media campaigns while helping build an exciting new digital marketing function from the ground up. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all employees and job applicants. In line with the Equality Act 2010, we strive to create and maintain a working environment in which everyone is able to make the best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment, and in which all decisions are based on merit.

Due to a high number of applicants, we are only able to respond to successful candidates.