Performance Marketing Lead

At CV-Library, we have a simple vision: to help the world to work and we are looking for exceptional and talented people to help us realise this vision in both UK and overseas markets.  

We are in a period of accelerated growth, following a year of key strategic acquisitions and significant investment across all parts of the business from Tech and Data to People and HR, there's never been a more exciting time to join us or a better place to grow your career! 

Benefits 

Here at CV-Library, we value our employees and are committed to offering the best: 

• 25x days holiday, plus bank holidays 
• Additional day off for your birthday 
• Holiday buy/sell scheme 
• Life Assurance - up to 3 times your annual salary 
• Medicash healthcare cashback plan - includes dental, physio, osteopathy, complementary and alternative therapies such as reflexology 
• Discounts as part of Medicash, gym memberships, shopping, entertainment etc.  
• Eyecare and flu vouchers  
• Employee Assistance Program and Mental Health First Aiders 
• Pension contribution up to 7% 
• Ongoing training and development - face to face training sessions available throughout the year  
• LinkedIn Learning - over 5,000 free courses to choose from  
• Long Service Awards 

We are looking for a driven and commercially minded title Performance Marketing Lead to take ownership of multi-market performance across our CPC arbitrage operations. You'll manage and optimise the flow of traffic from publishers into our job inventory via programmatic systems, with the goal of maximising profitability and meeting margin targets. 

This is a hands-on role, requiring excellent market knowledge, strong analytical instincts, and confidence in navigating complexity. You'll also play a key role in shaping how we evolve our arbitrage strategy, capabilities, improve automation, and scale our impact across markets. 

Responsibilities: 

Programmatic Traffic Management 

• Manage and optimise multi-market programmatic traffic operations across publisher networks. 
• Monitor, adjust, and allocate CPC's & budgets to maximise ROI and margin across diverse traffic sources and job inventories. 
• Use performance data and industry knowledge to make daily decisions on bid levels, budget splits, segmentations and prioritisation across partners. 

Strategic Development 

• Support in shaping strategy for arbitrage growth across markets, working with Senior Performance Director to align on goals, investment areas, and KPIs. 
• Identify and develop new programmatic or partnership opportunities. 
• Act as a key contributor to long-term evolution from manual to automated arbitrage models. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration 

• Partner with product and engineering teams to shape feed integrations and automation tools (experience in this area is a bonus). 
• Work closely with sales and account teams to align publisher traffic with client objectives. 
• Collaborate with analytics and finance to report on performance and margins accurately. 

Leadership & Team Enablement 

• Mentor and guide more junior team members in operations. 
• Contribute to a culture of automation, ownership, curiosity, and proactive problem solving. 

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience in performance marketing, programmatic media buying, ad tech, or arbitrage-based business models. 
• Strong commercial mindset and experience managing CPC budgets at scale. 
• Proven track record of improving margin and ROI through data-led traffic optimisation. 
• Comfortable working in environments that require judgement, rapid iteration, and navigating ambiguity. 
• Experience working with feeds, integrations, or ad tech platforms preferred (not essential). 
• Exposure to US job board or recruitment tech ecosystem is a plus. 

Benefits

We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements.  

Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application.