Performance Director Work with leading brands
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We’re looking for an experience experienced industry professional to help us continue our success, and that of our clients.
This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing team within the digital marketing industry.
The Performance Director is responsible for driving excellence across Sparro’s performance channels, including Google Ads, Meta, TikTok and more. The Performance Director will lead a team of channel leads to drive change, excellence and best practice adoption within Sparro. We are looking for someone with strong technical skills and hands on experience in performance channels.
Objectives
- To improve client outcomes from performance channels by increasing the standard of accounts.
- Working with teams and individuals to build strategies, training, experiments and testing frameworks to continually innovate and keep Sparro at the top of their game.
Responsibilities
- Lead performance team (Google Lead, Social Lead) to achieve client outcomes across the agency.
- Work with teams to build best practices, structures & reporting.
- Draw on external and primary research, testing and trends to build product roadmaps and excellence standards.
- Build and test new products, betas, channels to drive greater client engagement and outcomes.
- Work with client teams on Tier 1 client strategies across performance channels.
- Maintain a view of account standards to proactively reach out to client teams and accelerate high performers, and resolve poor performers.
- Participate and lead performance strategies and service pitches for existing and new clients.
- Work with the data team to build consistent reporting structures and templates.
- Champion Sparro as a leader in the industry through industry networking and thought leadership.
- Develop agency skills, culture and confidence within this channel offering in line with business direction, supporting teams implement experiments and betas, reporting back to the business on their effectiveness.
- Constantly seek efficiencies and improvements, championing the adoption of best in market channel practices for clients across teams.
- Be an ambassador for the Sparro values and culture.
You live for results, drive change, and expect only the best.
You move fast, but also and engage and empower the team around you to get stuff done. You’re also not afraid to dive right in and solve challenges by rolling up your sleeves.
You’ve worked with variety of clients and are looking to build successful senior stakeholder relationships.
Your contribution to the agency’s offering, direction, culture and knowledge will be invaluable, as will the solutions you produce and lead for our clients.
Your skills
- A high level understanding and hands-on skills in performance channels; particularly Google Ads & Meta.
- An advanced ability to independently plan, strategise, and mobilise to achieve a project.
- Ability to work collaboratively with multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Ability to get buy-in from teams to deliver a positive impact on Sparro accounts performance.
- Ability to lead relationships with key agency media partners.
- Strong leadership skills to inspire and lead a team.
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to make data-driven decisions.
- Highly-effective and confident internal and external stakeholder management skills; including the ability to plan and host client and staff workshops, training sessions, pitches and meetings.
- 5 + years experience with performance channels
The performance of the Performance Director will be determined based on their ability to:
- Grow performance media spend across agency, achieve Quarterly KPI’s.
- Improve agency wide account performance against scoring system.
- Standardise reporting and insights.
- Manage and support team members’ skills, experience and confidence.
Continuous learning is a huge part of our workplace culture. With our dedicated learning and development team and onsite performance coach, we offer in-house training sessions to upskill your qualifications.
We also provide a 20-week leadership training course with our founder and general manager. Through this training, we explore the vision of Sparro and Jack Nimble, how to manage expectations, elevating conversation and much more.
The Performance Director will work closely with our Business Partners and Senior Leaders.
Through our in-house training and support, we also look beyond our company to aid our staff’s professional development, with access and encouragement to attend industry events, workshops and paid external courses.
We’re looking to develop our team to be the next leaders in our industry, and in our business. Excellent opportunities to become a trusted partner and work closely with the business leaders. With the potential to progress into a senior role within the company.
We have a transparent direction for our business and clear pathways for all staff; supported by regular reviews, training courses and personal development plans.
We value culture as a top priority. We know that we succeed by working collaboratively, drawing on our shared knowledge and growing together.
Culture isn’t just a set of behaviours, backgrounds, or interests – it’s a growth mindset, no ego, and having an openness to learn, challenge, be challenged, and share ideas.
We host regular social and sporting events, lunches and drinks. We love getting everyone together to celebrate our successes. We work hard and smart while providing flexible working hours for all team members. We offer remote workings, a pet friendly plant-filled office with casual working areas, and fully stocked fridge.