Performance Marketing lead

Performance Marketing Lead
Location: Hybrid – 3 days a week onsite in Farnborough
 
 
Are you a commercially-minded marketing professional with a passion for optimising digital performance and driving ROI? We’re looking for a Performance Marketing Lead to join one of the UK’s leading SaaS organisations, taking charge of multi-market programmatic traffic operations and help shape a high-impact, data-driven arbitrage strategy.
 
The Role
You’ll manage and optimise traffic flow from publishers into job inventories through programmatic systems, ensuring margin targets are met and exceeded. This is a hands-on, analytical, and 80% manual role, with the goal to become closer to 30-40% manual. You will have the opportunity to influence strategy and scale performance across markets. You’ll work cross-functionally with product, engineering, sales, and analytics teams and play a critical part in the transition towards greater automation.
 
Key Responsibilities

• Manage and optimise CPC traffic sources across publisher networks.
• Adjust bids, budgets, and segmentations daily to maximise ROI and margin.
• Line manage a small but growing marketing team
• Collaborate on strategic initiatives to expand arbitrage operations.
• Identify and develop new programmatic or partnership opportunities.
• Work with internal teams to shape integrations and automation tools.

 
About You

• Solid background in performance marketing, programmatic media buying, ad tech.
• Strong commercial mindset with experience managing large-scale CPC budgets.
• Data-led, with a proven track record of improving ROI and profit margins.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with high autonomy.
• Experience with feeds, ad tech platforms, or job board ecosystems is a plus.

 
Attributes We Value

• Strategic thinker with strong analytical instincts and ability to bring in new ideas
• Proactive, curious, and comfortable making bold decisions.
• A collaborative team player who thrives in cross-functional environments.

 
In return, you’ll receive a competitive salary of between £60,000 - £70,000 (DOE) plus a generous benefits package including an increased Pension.
 
If you have the skills and experience to excel in this Performance Marketing Lead position, send your CV across ASAP!

If you are interested please apply ASAP. The People Network is an employment agency and will respond to all applicants within three - five working days. If you do not hear within these timescales please feel free to get in touch.