We are a small and fast growing advertising agency seeking a passionate and ambitious digital marketing executive to join our UK team and help to manage projects for clients in the UK, Europe and North America. The role will be primarily be focused on supporting our strategy team with ad campaigns on Meta (Facebook and Instagram), advising on content strategies to hit our clients objectives and analysing campaign performance using tools such as Google Analytics and Excel. The role will also give you exposure to projects that involve a wide range of digital marketing channels and tactics.
We are looking for someone who has an understanding of marketing and is keen to learn and develop. Some knowledge of how digital marketing works would be beneficial but no experience is necessary and we will provide a clear training plan for the right person so they can develop into the role. We are just looking for someone who has strong people skills and wants to get started with a career in marketing.
About Bambu
Bambu is a digital marketing agency providing results focused advertising, creative and development services, using a unique set of processes and tools to generate results for small and medium sized businesses around the world. The agency was founded in 2019 by two media & advertising experts with more than 20 years of experience working at several leading London media agencies providing marketing strategy for global brands.
We operate globally and have clients in Europe, Asia and North America, with bases in London in the UK and Manila in the Philippines and 40 staff in total across the business. The role will include a significant amount of work with clients and colleagues who are based overseas, and all of our team work across multiple markets.
All of our work is focused on delivering results. We place a high degree of importance on data and tracking, and use a variety of in-house tools and methods to generate the best possible results for the brands we work with.
We are currently growing rapidly and have big ambitions to expand the number of clients we are working with. This creates a great opportunity for ambitious people to join us and grow with the company. This role has a direct progression path to a more senior strategic focused role within the business, ultimately with scope to be advising clients on their marketing strategy and managing future junior team members.
Salary & Benefits
- £23,000 - £25,000 per year
- Flexible working (see remote working section for more details)
- Training allowance
- 25 days holiday per year
- Bonus day off for your birthday
- Opportunity to buy an extra 5 days holiday
- Work from anywhere in the world for up to 2 weeks per year
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave (minimum tenure applies)
- Participating in cycle to work scheme
Responsibilities
The core focus of this role is making sure that our clients are happy. This includes both delivering a great service to clients, and working with the rest of the team to deliver great results. As part of the role you will be expected to:
- Work with social media ad platforms to set up and manage campaigns.
- Use tools like Google Analytics and Excel to analyse campaigns.
- Engage in learning and development, following the prescribed training plan as well as proactively seeking out opportunities to develop your knowledge.
- Monitor social media for competitor ads and content inspiration to present ideas to clients.
- Learn finance processes, monitor budget tracking and campaign performance.
- Complete client reporting and analyse campaign results extracting insights in order to provide recommendations for future activity.
- Effectively manage your workload, and submit deliverables to clients and colleagues.
- Attend client calls and work with our project management tool to ensure that deadlines are met and requests are completed.
- Identify and implement testing approaches to improve campaign performance against KPIs
- Contribute to regular meetings with clients and colleagues, preparing and presenting performance detail and account action updates.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (does not need to be in marketing) or equivalent practical experience.
- Analytical, insightful and able to draw key points from data analysis. Good mathematical skills up to GCSE / A Level would be a big advantage.
- Strong communications skills.
- An interest in business, startups and entrepreneurship.
- A proactive attitude to find and suggest solutions rather than report on problems.
- Commercially minded and with the ability to prioritize according to business goals.
- Able to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Able to develop & learn new processes.
- Understanding of or experience activating digital marketing campaigns would be beneficial but is not essential.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office solutions – particularly Excel.
- Analytical thinking, strong statistical skills, and attention to detail.
- Native or highly fluent level of spoken and written English.
Flexible Working
We already encouraged home working before the covid pandemic, and so flexible working is firmly built into all our processes. Our London office is based less than 5 minutes walk from Hammersmith station and you would be required to work from the office 2 days each week. Core working hours are 9.00-5.30 Monday to Friday. All employees also have the flexibility to start and finish up to one hour earlier or later as and when needed, provided this does not disrupt any scheduled meetings, and we also give employees the flexibility to switch the standard public holiday dates with alternative days of their choosing.
Our office is based on the ground floor with full disabled access throughout the building. The office has secure bike parking and showers. Should you need to work from the office more than 2 days each week this can be arranged and we will be happy to discuss how our flexible working policy operates in more detail during the interview process.
