Location: Central London, hybrid, 3 days per week in the office
Salary: £90,000 to £100,000 base, plus up to 30% bonus and benefits

We’re looking for someone who knows how to turn social media from a channel into a commercial growth engine.

You’ll be joining a fast-paced, international consumer business operating across multiple brands, markets and territories. It’s a competitive, highly regulated environment where brand, performance, creative, compliance and commercial outcomes all need to work together. So this is not a role for someone who sees social as a content calendar.

Your goal is to lead global paid and organic social strategy, build sharper operating rhythms, improve creative effectiveness, bringing greater structure to testing and measurement, and help social media play a much bigger role across acquisition, brand, retention and revenue growth.

The business already has scale, budget, data, creative ambition and market presence. What they’re looking for is a credible leader to take the team to the next level. Someone who can bring paid and organic closer together, remove silos, raise standards, and create a clearer roadmap for how social media contributes to commercial performance.

You’ll lead and continue to evolve and develop teams across paid and organic social, with a particular emphasis on performance-led paid social. You’ll own strategy, budget allocation, forecasting, measurement, platform relationships, creative testing frameworks and senior stakeholder engagement across the business.

This is a hands-on leadership role, but not in the sense of doing everything yourself. It needs someone close enough to the work to challenge, shape and improve it, while still operating at the level of strategy, leadership and commercial accountability.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define and own the global social media strategy across paid and organic channels, creating a clearer roadmap for how social supports growth across multiple markets and brands.
• Lead performance across paid social globally, overseeing significant media budgets, improving ROI, strengthening measurement and making sure activity is properly aligned to revenue, brand and market growth objectives.
• Build a more connected full-funnel approach, linking brand, acquisition and retention activity through stronger creative, messaging and testing frameworks.
• Work closely with creative, brand, CRM, ATL, performance marketing and wider digital teams to improve alignment, speed to market and cross-channel impact.
• Lead, structure and develop high-performing social teams, giving them clearer direction, stronger ways of working and the leadership needed to raise both performance and morale.
• You’ll also own relationships with key social platforms, including Meta and TikTok, and look at where innovation, automation, tooling and reporting can improve the way the function operates.

EVIDENCED EXPERIENCE NEEDED

You’ll need a strong background in social media, with substantial experience across paid social performance. Ideally, you’ll have operated in a complex, high-growth, multi-market consumer environment before and are able to evidence growth achievements and commercial impact.

Experience managing large paid social budgets is important. As a guide, you should have owned or scaled budgets of £5m+, with clear evidence of commercial impact.

You’ll need to understand both paid and organic social, and how the two can work together across brand, acquisition and retention. Organic cannot just be treated as an awareness channel here. It needs to be measured, structured and understood in terms of its contribution to brand and business performance.

You’ll also need to bring strong creative judgement. That means knowing how to build creative and messaging frameworks, how to test properly, how to work with content creators and influencers, and how to connect performance insight back into better creative output.

A background in regulated, performance-driven, e-commerce, entertainment, subscription, marketplace, gaming, fintech, travel, app-led, or similarly competitive consumer sectors would translate well.

You’ll also need to be credible with senior stakeholders. This is a role with visibility, influence and expectation attached to it, so the ability to bring clarity, challenge and direction across teams are important.

You’ll suit this role if you are

• A commercially minded social media leader who enjoys scale, pace and complexity.
• Someone who can move comfortably between strategy and execution.
• A leader who can improve structure without slowing teams down.
• A performance marketer with strong creative instincts.
• A senior operator who understands that in regulated consumer markets, growth requires both ambition and control, and know how to play in that space without getting tied up by the regulations aspect.

Package

Salary is £90,000 to £100,000 base, plus up to 30% bonus and benefits.

The role is hybrid, with 3 days per week in a Central London office.

Benefits include annual leave, pension, private healthcare, life insurance, and a host of wider company benefits.

Want to apply?

You must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your LinkedIn profile, but please make sure it includes more than just job titles, or email across a CV.

For a chat and more information, contact:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

Award winning firm are currently looking to expand their commercial/technology team at the Tunbridge Wells office in Kent.  This firm have remained exceptionally busy throughout the pandemic and this department in particular has seen a large increase in work.

This firm are very different - they offer lots of flexibility, including remote working, no financial or time recording targets and they primarily act as in-house legal counsel to their clients.  

They are now looking to recruit an additional qualified and experienced commercial solicitor.  You will have strong experience particularly in commercial contracts including drafting, reviewing and negotiating and you will also ideally have experience of IT and technology law and contracts and have a keen interest in this area.  

Applications are welcome from solicitors with an in-house or private practice background but strong non-contentious commercial contracts experience is a must.  

For more information please email your CV to Julie Fernandes.  All applications will be treated in the strictest of confidence and your details will not be submitted anywhere without getting your express permission to do so first.

Highly ranked boutique law firm in Kent are looking to recruit a property development solicitor to join a very busy and friendly team.

This team act for a variety of property developers (both big and small) on residential developments and plot sales around London and the surrounding areas.  

The ideal applicant will have some property development experience but my client is happy to consider solicitors with a strong property background (either residential or commercial property) who would be keen to be involved with development work.

This is a mid to senior level position and therefore it is anticipated that you will have at least 4 years PQE.

This firm are very friendly and modern and offer lots of flexibility and hybrid working.  They are based in West Kent.

For more information please contact Julie Fernandes.

Top 100 South East law firm are currently recruiting for a Credit Controller to join their Finance department.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the top law firms in the region and join a friendly collaborative finance team.

You will be responsible for handling billing and cash flow processes on behalf of all departments and will work closely with other members of the finance team.  

Applicants must have at least 1 years experience of working in a computer assisted credit control role and you will have experience of working in a professional services firm (ideally a law firm).  

On offer is a highly competitive salary, bonus and benefits package, along with hybrid working (3 days per week in the office) and plenty of flexibility.  Beautiful modern offices in a fantastic location.

For more information please contact Julie Fernandes.

Leading, well established and friendly law firm in Kent, are currently recruiting for a mid level commercial property solicitor to join their Sevenoaks office.

This role involves joining a small collaborative team, who handle a range of real estate matters from large commercial properties/land to light commercial property work and everything in between.

Applications are welcome from qualified solicitors or legal executives who ideally have at least 2 years PQE in commercial property.  

You will join a very friendly and informal firm, albeit very professional.  This firm are also known for their progression opportunities, with many of the partners having joined at a junior level.

On offer is a competitive salary, lots of flexibility and hybrid working (3 days per week in the office).  This is a full time role but they are very happy to consider lawyers looking to work 4 days per week or 5 shorter days.

For more information please contact Julie Fernandes.

I am assisting a well-established and growing law firm, to expand their team of Partners. The firm has a reputation for providing exceptional legal services to clients across various sectors such as; Private Client, Corporate, Commercial, Banking, Dispute Resolution/Litigation, IP, Real Estate, Tax, IT, Employment, Regulatory, Fintech etc 

The firm work on a consultancy model and they are described as combining the best parts of private practice and consultancy. The firm was established by the Partners (a former CEO & a consultant at a leading fee share firm) as they recognised and understood the typical pain points of a consultancy model and put plans in place to keep a strong Commercial brand, a measured recruitment process and fantastic culture/retention rates.

What they are doing differently

• Recruitment process to ensure they are recruiting not only the best talent, but also ensuring a great cultural fit (not just recruiting based on extent of following)
• Have an uncompromising approach to quality
• Maintaining a collaborative, energetic & enthusiastic approach (no silo mentality)
• Access to teams to support you with Compliance, Finance, Admin, Marketing, as well as support from paralegals. This enables you to focus on building your practice and benefits your clients.  And allows you to go on holiday knowing your work/clients are covered.
• Support provided during restrictive covenant periods – they understand that solicitors sometimes have restrictions in place when moving to a new firm, so during the interview process they will be able to discuss what work can be internally directed to you, while you continue to build your client base. The managing partners will work with you closely on marketing & BD initiatives.
• They maintain a busy & active social calendar, both face to face and virtually. This helps create a great culture, even though the Partners work all across the UK/Internationally.

What you get

• Take home 75% of your billings + referral fees are set between 10-30%.
• You decide when, how and where you work (you can achieve a genuine work life balance) - Remote working as standard
• Take as many holidays as you want
• A firm that nurtures and inspires a team culture
• Opportunity to work with talented and well ranked Partners
• Work for a recognised award winning firm
• A huge support network for you to utilise

Requirements

• Client following of £130,000+
• 10+ PQE (although I will consider candidates with less, that have great experience)
• The firm are looking for people that will be a great culture fit, are personable, approachable and collaborative.

Location: UK (Remote working available, with offices to use in London, Birmingham & Manchester)

Remuneration: 75% of your billings

Leading Kent law firm are currently looking to recruit an experienced residential conveyancer for their Canterbury office.

This role will involve managing a high quality, low volume caseload, with plenty of secretarial support.  This firm feel that emphasis should be on providing a high quality professional service to clients, rather than managing a high volume caseload, where client care is bottom of the list.

They are happy to consider qualified solicitors, legal executives or licensed conveyancers and are also very happy to consider experienced conveyancers too.  You must just have at least 5 years experience of managing a residential property caseload from start to finish.

On offer is a highly competitive salary and benefits package and achievable bonus.  Flexibility and hybrid working comes as standard.  This is genuinely a lovely place to work where staff are treated with the value and respect they deserve.

For more information please contact Julie Fernandes.

Modern Legal 500 law firm based in mid Kent, are currently looking to recruit an experienced Employment Solicitor to work closely with the legal team but also the HR team at the firm.

The role will involve handling both contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, along with working closely with HR on contentious HR matters too.  

You must be able to work unsupervised and therefore it is anticipated that you will have at least 4 years PQE in employment law.  You must be a qualified solicitor or legal executive and any commercial experience would be an advantage but not essential.

This is a part time position and my client are happy to look at someone wanting to work 3 or 4 days per week, or they are also happy to consider someone looking to work 5 days per week but shorter days - there is plenty of flexibility.

On offer is a very competitive salary, bonus and commission package.

For more information please contact Julie Fernandes.

Very highly regarded and long established law firm based in Kent, are succession planning and looking to recruit a senior level private client solicitor to join at partner level and take over the running of the private client department.

This department is one of the most successful and most profitable in the firm and therefore it is crucial for them to get the right person on board.

The private client department handles a range of work including probate, wills, tax, trusts, LPA's, estate planning, estate administration and some Court of Protection work.  Many clients are high net worth with complex estates.

As this is such a senior level position, applications are welcome from qualified solicitors at senior associate or partner level, with at least 10 years PQE.  You are likely to either be a head of department at the moment, or you will be a number two or three in the department who is looking to take that step up and run your own team.  

STEP membership would be a distinct advantage and you will have experience managing and mentoring more junior members of staff. 

A following is NOT required, but experience of networking and business development is expected.  

For more information or a highly confidential discussion, then please contact Julie Fernandes.

This boutique law firm offer top quality commercial work and clients, alongside heaps of flexibility including remote working.

This role is to join their busy and highly successful commercial team - they provide advice on a variety of commercial contracts including drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts and also advise on IP and IT matters and data protection matters too, specialising in supporting the technology industry.

Tech experience and an interest in it would be a big advantage.

This is a senior level position and therefore it is anticipated you will have at least 5 years PQE.  A qualified Solicitor or Legal Executive is required and you will have solid experience in handling commercial contracts.  You must be a strong negotiator as you will often be dealing directly with magic circle law firms.

You will be enthusiastic and hard working and in return you will be part of a friendly and supportive team, who offer unrivalled flexibility, a competitive salary and benefits package and lots of staff days out!

My client are happy to consider those looking for full time work or those looking to work 4 days per week.

For more information please contact Julie Fernandes.

Legal 500 law firm who have been established for many years are looking to grow their employment law department by recruiting at additional lawyer.  

This role will involve managing both contentious and non-contentious employment matters acting mainly for employers.  

This firm offer tons of flexibility and hybrid working (which is set to stay) and are a genuinely fantastic place to work - they are hugely friendly, ambitious, and are heavily investing in their employees to make the firm (and everyone in it) the greatest it can be.

The employment team deal with a high quality client base and caseload and the firm are very highly ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers.  

You are likely to have at least 2 years PQE in employment law and will ideally have experience of acting for employers and employees.  An interest in networking and business development would be an advantage and you will be a team player who is keen to be part of a hugely collaborative department.

This role could be full time or 4 days per week.

For more information please contact Julie Fernandes.

Leading Kent law firm are currently recruiting into their award winning property disputes department.

This team deal with a variety of property disputes acting for both commercial and residential clients.

This role gives the opportunity to handle a quality caseload with high quality clients along with offering fantastic prospects for progression and advancement in the firm.  Many of their lawyers joined them in a junior role and are now partners.

Also on offer is hybrid working (2 or 3 days per week in the office) lots of flexibility and a genuinely friendly and supportive team.  

Applications are welcome from qualified solicitors or legal executives who ideally have 2+ years PQE in property litigation.  

Please also apply if you are an experienced property litigator (but not qualified) or you have a more generalist litigation background but still have solid experience in property disputes.  

For more information or a confidential discussion then please contact Julie Fernandes.

Leading Kent law firm with an outstanding reputation are currently recruiting for a residential conveyancer for the Maidstone office.

The team handle a high quality, low volume, residential property caseload, dealing with a variety of work - sale & purchase of leasehold and freehold properties, registered and unregistered land.

This is a fantastic opportunity to deal with quality work, in a friendly and flexible environment, offering hybrid working, flexible hours, a very competitive salary and benefits package and great progression.

Applications are welcome from qualified solicitors, legal executives or licensed conveyancers and you will be confident managing your own residential conveyancing caseload from start to finish.

You will get full secretarial support in this role.

For more information please contact Julie Fernandes.

Location: Hemel Hempstead, hybrid, 3 days per week
Salary: Up to £52,000 + 15% bonus + benefits

This is a PPC Manager role with proper scale behind it.

Large budgets. 2 big revenue lines in a dynamic, fast-moving ‘trading’ type of industry. Working with a high-profile consumer brand. Where paid search has a direct line into commercial performance.

But the important part is this: they are not looking for someone who has already done everything.

This role is aimed at someone who has built strong hands-on PPC capability, probably at Senior Executive level or maybe stepped into management already, but only just entered into that journey, and you’re looking to mature your career down that line. Wanting more ownership, more strategic involvement, and the chance to develop into a broader paid search leadership role over time.

You’ll be joining a business that runs its paid search activity in-house, so this is not a light-touch supplier management role. You’ll be close to the platforms, the numbers, the campaigns and the decisions. You’ll be expected to understand what is happening in the account, why performance is moving, where the opportunity sits, and how to communicate that clearly to the wider business.

You’ll also be working closely with, and learning from, a highly experienced Head of Search Marketing who has been recognised by Google as one of the leading people in this space. So there is structure, coaching and senior support around you, but also enough room to step up and take ownership.

The business itself operates in the hospitality and leisure space, with a well-known consumer brand and a sizeable marketing operation. Campaigns are large, commercially important and often complex, spanning different products, trading periods and customer journeys.

If you want the next step in PPC without being thrown in unsupported, this is a very strong chance to achieve that.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll take on day-to-day ownership of PPC campaign activity across Google and Microsoft Ads, helping manage performance across a sizeable paid search estate.

The role will include:

• Managing and optimising PPC campaigns across Google Ads and Microsoft Ads
• Working across campaign types including Search, Performance Max and AI Max
• Using automated bidding strategies, particularly around ROAS and commercial return
• Supporting budget management across daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly cycles
• Monitoring performance trends and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, scale and profitability
• Working with SA360 and wider paid search tools to manage campaign structure, performance and reporting
• Translating campaign data into clear recommendations for senior marketing stakeholders
• Supporting planning around seasonal trading periods, product priorities and wider marketing activity
• Helping shape testing plans across creative, bidding, audiences, landing pages and campaign structure
• Working closely with internal teams across digital, brand, analytics and commercial functions
• Gradually taking on more ownership of planning, reporting and stakeholder management as the role develops

This is not just “keep the campaigns ticking over”. The expectation is that you’ll grow into someone who can take a more active role in decision-making, performance planning, people or channel leadership.

What they’re looking for

You’ll need a solid grounding in PPC and paid search campaign management, with enough hands-on experience to be credible around performance, platform set-up, optimisation and analysis.

You’re likely to be operating as a Senior PPC Executive, Senior Paid Search Executive, PPC Specialist or similar, either agency-side or in-house.

They’re looking for someone with:

• Strong hands-on PPC experience across Google Ads
• Experience with Microsoft Ads would be useful
• Good working knowledge of SA360
• Exposure to Performance Max, AI Max and automated bidding strategies
• A strong grasp of budget pacing, ROAS, CPA, conversion performance and campaign efficiency
• Confidence working with spreadsheets, dashboards and performance data
• Experience using Google Analytics or similar analytics tools
• The ability to spot patterns in data and turn them into useful action
• Clear communication skills, especially when explaining performance to non-technical stakeholders
• A genuine appetite to step into a bigger remit, not just maintain what already exists

You do not need to be the finished article.

What matters more is that you have the technical base, commercial curiosity and maturity to grow into a management-level PPC role.

Why this role?

This is a good fit for someone who feels they have outgrown pure execution, but is not necessarily being given enough room to progress where they are now.

You’ll get:

• A genuine step up into a PPC Manager title
• Exposure to large-scale budgets and more complex campaign structures
• A clear pathway towards broader strategic ownership
• Coaching from a very experienced Head of Search Marketing
• The chance to work in-house for a recognisable consumer brand
• More visibility across commercial planning, trading performance and senior stakeholder conversations
• A business that invests in learning, development and long-term progression

It is a role with enough stretch to be interesting, but enough support to make that step realistic.

Package

• Up to £52,000 base salary
• 15% bonus
• Pension
• Life assurance
• Discount platform covering holidays, utilities, retail and more
• EV car scheme
• Additional lifestyle and wellbeing benefits

Want to apply?

You must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your LinkedIn profile, but please make sure it includes more than just job titles, or email across a CV.

For a chat and more information, contact:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

Salary: £35,000 to £40,000 base + 12% bonus and benefits

Location: Hemel Hempstead

Working setup: Hybrid (3 days in office) | Onsite parking

This is a hands-on Paid Social and Programmatic role for someone who enjoys the detail of campaign activation, optimisation and performance analysis, but also wants to understand the bigger commercial picture behind the work.

You’ll be joining a high-profile consumer brand with a significant digital footprint, working across paid social, programmatic display, video and YouTube activity. You’ll be creating, activating and optimising campaigns that drive high-quality, qualified traffic into the business across all its product offerings.

The people who tend to do well in this environment are bright, commercially switched on, organised, curious, and comfortable working at pace. They care about the detail, but they also want to know why something is working, what can be improved, and how performance can be pushed further.

The role

You’ll work closely with the Head of Function and as part of a broader Digital Performance team which will encompass paid search, SEO, affiliates, CRM - and alongside brand, commercial and digital product.

They deal with big budget, large scale, complex campaigns, with a paid media budget in the 8 figure range.

Day to day, you’ll be involved in:

• Creating and managing programmatic display and video campaigns
• Building, launching and optimising paid social campaigns
• Monitoring campaign pacing, budgets and KPI performance
• Analysing campaign data and turning it into clear recommendations
• Working with creative and brand teams to ensure ads are high quality, relevant and performance-led
• Supporting reporting for internal stakeholders and commercial meetings
• Helping test, learn and improve campaign performance across channels

If you’re coming from a media agency, performance marketing team or digital trading environment and have exposure to programmatic, DV360, Amazon DSP, CM360 or similar platforms, with an ambition to broaden your horizon into other channels, this is your learning opportunity.

All the end company is asking for is evidence of solid hands-on programmatic/media activation, with experience managing campaign set-up, optimisation, reporting, tracking and budget reconciliation. The other aspects which make up this role will be taught.

This is the kind of role that gives you proper exposure.

You’ll be close to the numbers, the creative, the trading decisions and the commercial impact. You’ll get to work across multiple paid media channels, contribute to campaign recommendations, working as part of an in-house team who are well respected for delivering high quality output and results.

For someone ambitious, data-led and commercially curious, it is a strong next move.

EXPERIENCE NEEDED

You do not need to be the finished article. But you do need to be credible around digital campaign delivery and genuinely interested in performance marketing.

You’ll likely bring:

• Hands-on exposure programmatic display/video – setting up, running, optimising campaigns
• Experience with tools such as DV360, CM360, Amazon DSP, The Trade Desk, Power BI, Looker Studio, IAS, Prisma or similar would be useful

• The ability to combine campaign delivery, data interpretation, stakeholder communication and a strong operational mindset.
• Good Excel skills and comfort working with campaign data
• Strong attention to detail when building, checking and optimising activity
• Confidence interpreting performance numbers and explaining what they mean
• A curious mindset, where you want to test, optimise and improve

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your Linked-in profile or email me a CV – it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

Location: Central London, hybrid, 3 days per week in office
Salary: £35,000 to £45,000, dependent on experience
Benefits: 10% annual bonus, pension, healthcare, life insurance and more

An opportunity has opened for a talented Midweight Digital Designer to join the in-house creative team of a global iGaming brand.

This is not a pure production role. You will be involved in the thinking, concepting and visual development behind campaigns, as well as the hands-on design and delivery of assets across digital, social, CRM, web, performance marketing, OOH and wider brand channels.

The brand operates across a number of international markets, including the UK, Europe, LATAM and North America, so your work will need to flex across different audiences, languages, cultures and campaign objectives. LATAM is an important growth region, with out-of-home becoming a more prominent channel, while TV and larger-scale brand campaigns are also a major part of the creative team’s output.

There is a strong digital and animation bias to the role, so you will need to be comfortable creating static and animated campaign assets, social-first creative, display banners, landing page visuals, CRM assets and video content. There is also scope to bring in 3D design, motion and AI-assisted creative tools where they add value.

You will be joining a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary creative team where designers work closely with marketing teams, country managers, copywriters, creative leads and external agencies. The environment suits someone who enjoys variety, takes ownership of their work, and can move confidently from idea through to polished execution.

What you’ll be doing

You will develop creative concepts and deliver campaign assets across digital marketing, social media, CRM, web, performance channels and wider brand activity.

Your work will include static and animated display banners, paid social creative, website hero banners, landing page assets, promotional visuals, CRM content, reels, vertical video and other short-form social formats.

You will also support larger integrated campaigns, including international market launches, TV-led campaigns, OOH activity and creative projects with significant media investment behind them.

You will work closely with the UK Design Team Lead, wider creative team, marketing stakeholders, copywriters, country managers and external agencies to ensure creative output is aligned, on-brand and commercially effective.

You will adapt creative for different international markets, considering audience behaviours, cultural nuances, language requirements and local campaign needs.

You will use tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, Adobe Animate, Bannerflow, Creatopy, Figma and, where relevant, 3D or AI-assisted creative tools to enhance ideation and production.

You will manage multiple projects at pace, balancing deadlines, stakeholder feedback and quality control, while keeping communication clear through project management tools such as ClickUp.

You may also support junior designers, share ideas with the wider creative team, and contribute positively to the team’s creative standards and culture.

Why this role?

This is a strong opportunity for a Mid-Weight Designer who wants more creative ownership, broader campaign exposure and the chance to work on international brand activity with real investment behind it.

You will be joining a growing in-house team, working across high-profile campaigns, with the scope to contribute ideas, build out creative concepts and produce work across digital, motion, social, CRM, OOH, TV-supporting assets and emerging creative formats.

For someone who enjoys pace, variety and the chance to keep pushing their creative toolkit forward, it is a genuinely good next step.

EXPERIENCE NEEDED

• You will probably have around 4 to 5 years’ experience in a digital design role, ideally gained in a fast-paced, campaign-led environment.
• You will need a strong portfolio showing a mix of digital advertising, social, display, animated and campaign creative. The portfolio does not need to come from iGaming, but it should show commercial design work with strong visual judgement, good craft and clear evidence of conceptual thinking.
• You should be confident taking a brief, shaping ideas, developing creative routes and delivering finished assets across multiple formats. This role needs someone who can contribute creatively, not just resize assets.
• You will need strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and InDesign. Experience with Adobe Animate would also be valuable.
• You should have practical experience with digital banner or campaign production tools such as Bannerflow, Creatopy or similar platforms.
• A good understanding of social-first design, performance marketing creative, animation, UX/UI principles and tools such as Figma would be highly useful.
• Experience working across international markets would be advantageous, particularly where you have had to adapt creative for different audiences, regions or languages.
• You will need to be organised, proactive and comfortable managing several projects at once without losing attention to detail.

Useful but not essential

• Experience in iGaming, online casino, bingo, gaming, entertainment or fast-moving consumer sector.
• Experience with 3D design or animation tools such as Blender or Cinema4D.
• Exposure to AI-assisted creative tools such as ChatGPT, Firefly, Runway, Gemini, Freepik, Kling, Sora or similar.
• Experience supporting or mentoring more junior designers.

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your Linked-in profile (but please ensure there’s more than just job titles listed) or email me a CV – and please ensure there’s a link to a portfolio included.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

London hybrid, 3 days office based
£45,000 to £50,000 + bonus + benefits

This is a role for a Paid Social expert who wants pace, scale, budget, international reach and the creative freedom to make a visible commercial impact, whilst also leading and managing a team of Paid Social Specialists.

You’ll be joining a high-growth consumer business operating in a regulated, fast-moving and fiercely competitive sector. It’s an environment where performance matters, but so does brand, creativity, speed of execution and the ability to spot opportunities others miss.

The role sits within a central paid social team, supporting multiple international markets across full-funnel campaign activity. You’ll be working across channels including Meta, TikTok and Snapchat, taking responsibility for campaign setup, optimisation, reporting, budget management, creative testing and stakeholder engagement.

It needs someone who can look at data, understand what it is really telling them, then turn that into better campaigns, sharper creative briefs, cleaner targeting, stronger reporting and improved commercial performance.

You’ll be working closely with internal teams across brand, data, CRM, digital and market leads, so the ability to explain campaign performance clearly is important. Not just what happened, but why it happened and what should happen next.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll manage paid social campaigns across assigned international markets, taking ownership of setup, optimisation, budget pacing, creative coordination and compliance checks.

You’ll produce daily, monthly and quarterly reporting, using performance data, attribution insight and customer lifetime value to shape decisions.

You’ll work with brand and creative teams on upper-funnel activity, while staying close to acquisition performance.

You’ll help ensure tracking, tagging, landing pages and campaign links are properly set up, working closely with data teams to make sure performance is measurable and reliable.

You’ll adapt activity by market, recognising that audience behaviour, creative response and cultural nuance will not be the same everywhere.

You’ll also identify opportunities to improve automation, efficiency and technical capability across the channel.

What you’ll need

• You’ll probably have around a solid background in paid social under your belt already, with a strong track record managing campaigns across platforms such as Meta, TikTok and/or Snapchat. This could have been established either brand side, or within an agency environment.
• You’ll be comfortable managing meaningful budgets and multiple campaigns at once, ideally across more than one market.
• You’ll need strong analytical skills, with experience using reporting tools, attribution models, mobile measurement platforms such as AppsFlyer, Excel and ideally Tableau or similar visualisation tools.
• You should understand tagging, tracking and attribution, including GTM.
• Because this is a regulated sector, you’ll need to be comfortable working within compliance requirements. Creative thinking is encouraged, but it has to be smart, responsible and commercially grounded.
• You’ll also need to be confident presenting insight to stakeholders. The best person for this role will be able to move between detail and bigger-picture thinking without getting lost in either.

Why this role?

Because it offers the kind of paid social environment that can genuinely sharpen your career.

You’ll get international exposure, significant campaign responsibility, access to strong data, a competitive market to test yourself in, and a business where creative performance marketing is taken seriously.

The package includes:

• £50,000 to £60,000 base salary
• 10% annual bonus
• Hybrid working, 3 days in the London office
• Private healthcare
• Life insurance
• Pension scheme
• 24 days’ annual leave, increasing with service
• Regular company events and team activities

This would suit someone commercially sharp, curious, well organised and confident enough to try new things. Someone who enjoys the pace of paid social, but wants more than just platform execution.

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your Linked-in profile (but please ensure there’s more than just job titles listed) or email me a CV.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

**Does require travel 2-3 days per week to visit sites around the country. So you do need to have a valid driving license.**

This is a brand new role within a growing UK organisation centred around providing services to young families. It’s part of the marketing team, responsible for creating local marketing plans and strategies for venues – these are often tactical marketing plans with a focus on local communities – these can range from multi-channel campaigns using highly targeted media within local communities, to engaging with employers, community hubs and businesses in the area which will help drive local brand awareness of the venue, which in turn generates new customer enquiries. These are often multi-channel and a mix of on and offline campaigns.

To be successful in this kind of role, you’ve got to the be kind of person who enjoys being out in the world, speaking with people, spotting patterns, joining the dots and giving venue managers the kind of practical ideas that make a measurable difference to how they attract new customers – with practical, workable marketing toolkits they’re able to implement at a local level.

It is a rare mix. Field based. Creative. Commercial. And full of variety.

What you will be doing

You’ll spend a good chunk of your time visiting sites based around the UK – as far north as Shropshire, as south as London.

Sitting with managers of the venues. Understanding why enquiries are flowing or slowing. Figuring out what will help them attract more families. Turning interest into engagement, and engagement into bookings – coming up with ideas which could work for their location and project managing them through a central marketing team, there to support you with getting things from the idea stage through to delivery.

Some days it will be about improving visibility in a local area. Maybe that involves small scale creative campaigns - poster placements, partnerships with nearby employers or clever community outreach ideas that highlights the brand and its benefits to the right audiences in a meaningful way.

Other days might involve supporting open days and events. Helping managers find and organise specialist partners. Creating a network of experts they can draw upon whenever they want something a bit different.

What makes this interesting

There is a lot of freedom to experiment. Fresh thinking is welcomed. The organisation values someone who can take a challenge, break it down, and recommend something practical that fits the local context rather than relying on cookie cutter solutions.

You won’t be stuck behind a screen all week. You’ll travel, meeting a variety of people. You’ll get to see first-hand the impact your ideas have.

And you’ll work with a central marketing team that appreciates clear insight from the field. You deliver a sharp brief, they’ll bring it to life.

Who this suits

• Someone with a solid background in marketing who enjoys being out on the ground rather than confined to strategy docs in an office all day.
• Experience within Retail Marketing, Marketing/Brand Activation, Local Marketing, Shopper Marketing, Field Marketing (B2C / D2C) environments
• Got to have experience delivering marketing campaigns and activations for multi-site environments
• Someone who can switch effortlessly between creative problem solving and commercial reasoning.
• Someone who likes people. Because you’ll be meeting a lot of them.
• Someone with the confidence to advise managers who don’t come from a marketing background.
• Someone organised, adaptable and comfortable travelling to different parts of the UK each week.

Experience in field marketing, local marketing, community engagement or multi-site environments will all translate well.

A full UK driving licence is essential – as is the right to live and work in the UK.

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

You can share your Linkedin profile or email me a CV – it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122
colin@bluepelican.com

Location: Welwyn Garden City (Hybrid – 2 days per week)
Salary: £60,000 – £70,000 base salary plus Stock options

Benefits: 27 days leave, healthcare, pension, EV car scheme, Childcare discounts and more

This is one of those roles which is quite unique, as the company is already at a reasonable size, yet the foundations have only recently been put in place to start building a modern, truly effective CRM programme which can elevate the company’s operations across channels.

It’s a high-growth, consumer-focused business which generates around £100m+ turnover and operates across over 100 venues around the UK is looking to hire a Head of CRM into a newly created role.

Zoho CRM has recently been implemented, and some email journeys created. However there’s still lots to build, and some of the initial structure established. But the real work starts now.

Customer journeys need designing and building, taking them from EVP through to a much more sophisticated operation. Segmentation needs defining. Contact strategy needs shaping, and personalisation needs layering in across the full lifecycle.

It’s a blank canvas in many ways, but not from scratch.

The role

This is a hands-on leadership position. You’ll be responsible for both the strategy and the execution.

You’ll take ownership of how the business engages with its customers from first enquiry through to long-term retention. That means building, testing and optimising CRM journeys, while also shaping the broader approach to customer communication.

Whilst the primary channel for outbound CRM will be email. They’re also engaging across Whatsapp and SMS, and there’s a customer service and customer engagement team who also operate over telephony and Whatsapp channels too.

These teams will be part of your direct reporting structure, it’s a function of 7 in total. With you handling this relatively small inbound contact team, ensuring solid alignment between automated journeys which push outbound and the real-world inbound customer interactions which come back from them, ensuring the journeys are effective in delivering the appropriate KPI’s.

What you’ll be doing

• Owning and evolving the CRM platform (Zoho), building journeys, workflows and data structure
• Designing end-to-end customer journeys across acquisition, onboarding and retention
• Developing segmentation and contact strategy to improve relevance and conversion
• Building and optimising email and SMS channels, with a strong focus on test-and-learn
• Introducing personalisation across different customer touchpoints
• Using data and insight to identify opportunities to improve engagement and lifetime value
• Creating reporting frameworks to track performance across conversion, retention and customer satisfaction
• Managing and developing a contact centre team handling inbound enquiries
• Aligning CRM activity with wider marketing, operational and commercial objectives

What they’re looking for

• Strong CRM background with a solid mix of CRM strategy and planning coupled with the ability to get down and dirty with email builds - experience building journeys and automations hands-on
• Experience with Zoho or similar platforms (Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics)
• Comfortable operating across both strategy and execution
• Strong understanding of segmentation, testing and optimisation
• Experience managing or working closely with a contact centre or customer service function
• Commercially aware, with a focus on conversion, retention and customer value
• High energy, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment

Why this role?

The business is in a period of rapid growth and transformation.

It has the scale of an established organisation, but still operates with a very entrepreneurial mindset. Things move quickly. There’s room to shape decisions. And there’s a genuine opportunity to build something that didn’t previously exist in a structured way.

If you enjoy creating order from complexity and seeing the direct impact of your work, this will appeal.

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your Linked-in profile (but please ensure there’s more than just job titles listed) or email me a CV.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

Location: Hemel Hempstead (Hybrid – 3 days per week)
Salary: £45,000 + 15% bonus + benefits

We are looking to appoint a PPC Manager to help evolve the paid search capability of a high-profile consumer-facing business, which operates in a fast paced dynamic trading environment.

On paper, the role talks about ownership, scale and big budget responsibility (in the millions) covering multiple product lines. In reality, it’s a genuine step-up opportunity.

However, they’re not expecting a finished PPC leader to step into this role, but someone who is on that journey to hopefully become one - and who will see the potential through the scale of this opportunity to help you get there.

This is more positioned at an experienced Senior Executive who’s ready to take that next step and grow into a broader, more strategic remit over time.

You’ll be working closely and be coached by a highly experienced and decorated Head of Search Marketing – someone who themselves has been recognised by Google as one of the top players within this space. Gaining exposure to large-scale budgets, advanced bidding strategies and cross-channel planning, while gradually building out your own ownership in the role.

The company you’ll be doing this for is a big brand within the hospitality and leisure industry. They’re recognised for handling campaigns in-house, which is why being technically astute and competent with platforms like SA360 will be important to your success in this role.

What you’ll be doing

• Supporting the planning, management and optimisation of PPC campaigns across Google and Microsoft Ads
• Working with a range of campaign types including Performance Max and AI Max,  automated bidding strategies focused on ROAS
• Analysing performance data and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and scale
• Managing budgets across daily, weekly and quarterly cycles, ensuring strong control and reporting
• Collaborating with internal teams and stakeholders to align PPC activity with wider marketing objectives
• Presenting performance insights in a clear, commercially meaningful way

What they’re looking for

• Solid grounding in PPC, ideally from a Senior Executive or equivalent role – either agency or end brand side
• Must have hands-on experience across Google Ads (and ideally Microsoft Ads), including campaign optimisation and bid strategies, and good knowledge of working with SA360
• Strong analytical capability, comfortable working with data and translating it into action
• Confidence working with spreadsheets, dashboards and tools such as Google Analytics
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Someone who wants to step up, take on more ownership, and grow into a management-level position

Why this role?

• Clear progression path into a more senior, strategic PPC leadership role
• Exposure to large budgets and complex campaign structures early in your development
• Support from an experienced leader who will actively help you grow
• A business that invests in learning, development and long-term career pathways

Package

• £45,000 base salary
• 15% bonus
• Pension and life assurance
• Discount platform covering holidays, utilities, retail and more
• EV car scheme
• Additional lifestyle and wellbeing benefits

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your Linked-in profile (but please ensure there’s more than just job titles listed) or email me a CV.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

Salary: £35,000 to £40,000 base + 12% bonus and benefits

Location: Hemel Hempstead

Working setup: Hybrid (3 days in office) | Onsite parking

If you’re happiest when you’re deep in platforms, pulling levers that shift performance of digital campaigns, this one will feel like home.

If you’ve maybe begun your career agency side working in a specialist programmatic executive remit, and your next step is either to Snr Exec or Account Management, it will seem like more of the same, just with a higher degree of autonomy. Whereas, taking this route will give you added strings to your bow, broadening your career as well as technical skills, giving you that opportunity to become a more rounded digital performance marketer.

Why? Because this isn't a role just doing programmatic - it's also giving you the opportunity to learn Paid Social as well.

This opportunity is with a major UK consumer brand in the leisure and hospitality space working as part of their performance marketing function. It's a small team, but one with a high degree of importance within their digital performance function. Since they drive a lot of leads across the company's product categories.

This will ultimately be your first potential step from single channel specialist into a broader ‘performance marketing’ direction.

The role in real terms

Programmatic campaign management – this will be from the hands-on set up, running, monitoring, optimisation and reporting – so everything you’d expect from a technical perspective and, needs someone who really is fluent with a platform like DV360 in order to deliver effectively.

Being technically proficient here is important, as you will be handling everything end-to-end.

Paid Social campaigns – if you’ve handled these before, great – but if not, this is the learning opportunity with this role, and will include the relevant platforms they’re built and executed over. Both campaign channels will have a clear focus on driving high-quality traffic and strong outcomes, not vanity metrics.

These guys tend to play with big budgets across their performance marketing channels (in the 8 digit space), so you can expect the campaigns you’ll be working on are going to be highly visible.

What that tends to look like day-to-day:

• Planning, launching and optimising Programmatic activity with clear performance goals
• Managing campaigns across key platforms including DV360, Campaign Manager, and Google Ads
• Monitoring pacing, budgets and delivery, then making smart changes based on what the data is saying
• Working with creative and brand stakeholders so messaging, formats and assets are fit for purpose (and actually drive results)
• Keeping reporting useful and actionable: performance updates, insights, learnings, and next steps
• Supporting Paid Social activity where needed, but with the role weighted clearly towards Programmatic
• Partnering with a senior channel lead, learning fast and contributing to how the channel evolves

This isn’t one of those roles where Programmatic sits in the background as an afterthought. It’s central, visible, and taken seriously.

You’ll get:

• Proper ownership in Programmatic campaigns, not just “assisting”
• A chance to become sharper on optimisation, testing and measurement
• Exposure to wider commercial thinking, not just platform work

You’ll like this role because it has momentum.

You’re not being hired to “maintain”. You’re being hired to improve and grow the channels, and you’ll be surrounded by teams that care about creative quality and performance insight.

If you’re thinking longer-term, this role sets you up nicely for:

• stepping into broader channel ownership
• developing stronger commercial confidence
• becoming a more rounded performance marketer (Paid Social + Programmatic is a strong combo)

What we’re looking for

Ideal background:

• A couple of years commercial experience with hands-on Programmatic campaign skills in a Consumer facing industry
• Sound knowledge of DV360 – (knowledge of Campaign Manager, and Google Ads is a plus)
• Strong with numbers and genuinely comfortable working with data day to day
• Organised, detail-focused, and able to keep campaigns running cleanly
• Confident using Excel and reporting performance clearly
• Comfortable dealing with multiple stakeholders (and keeping things moving)

Bonus points if you’ve worked in a fast-paced consumer brand environment, or even from a digital agency doing this for a client, or maybe even have a broader view of digital marketing beyond your core channels.

Working pattern & package

• Hybrid working: 3 days a week in the office, 2 from home
• £35,000 to £40,000 base
• 12% bonus, Pension, Healthcare, Holiday discounts and additional benefits
• Onsite parking available

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your Linked-in profile or email me a CV – it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122