Senior Paid Media Specialist

Senior Paid Media Specialist Barcelona, Spain About Adapt

Adapt, a Welo Global brand, is an international digital performance marketing agency focused on driving the success of digital content across platforms and markets. We offer our customers a unique combination of global services designed to support their growth from strategy all the way through to execution, production, and performance measurement. With a collaborative and inclusive environment, you will join a unique culture which celebrates difference and embraces diversity. You will play a key role in developing strong relationships and shared ethos, whilst at the same time benefiting from a wide range of career opportunities, training, and flexibility for work-life balance.

Our culture is built on curiosity, and we are looking for team members who have a passion for learning about the developments in the industry, their clients, and their peers. In return, we offer the opportunity to develop your ability and exposure to a wide range of clients from growth-minded startups all the way up to global enterprise clients. Our client base is predominantly focused on B2B businesses, though we do also support customers in the e-commerce and retail space. Regardless of vertical, Adapt offers dynamic and diverse challenges that foster creativity, innovation and application of knowledge to create client solutions.

Job Description

As a Senior Paid Media Specialist, you will plan and execute client media buying across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Facebook Ads Manager, LinkedIn Ads, and more. Building their technical experience across all major paid media platforms, a Paid Media Specialist will carry out implementation, reporting, and measurement tasks. Paid Media Specialist are responsible for building, optimizing, and reporting on campaign activity for our customers, ensuring that campaigns deliver against objectives.

You’ll work within one of our paid media buying teams, running campaigns across multiple platforms, in multiple markets, and potentially in multiple languages, delivering great performance for our clients and helping to maintain and develop Adapt's reputation as a high-quality, transparent, and effective digital media buying agency which is pleasurable and profitable to do business with.

We believe in supporting professional development through our career framework, helping you develop your career as a digital marketer from day one.

Role Summary

• Building campaigns across multiple paid media platforms in conjunction with mid and senior level resources within the squad
• You will manage a portfolio of clients’ paid media campaigns across multiple platforms
• Ensure campaigns deliver against the client’s objectives while providing analysis and recommendations to improve performance
• Setup, implement, track, and optimize campaigns
• Reporting on campaign results against customer goals on a weekly basis
• Attend appropriate calls/meetings with customers
• Begin to add value to the planning and delivery of paid media work by identifying opportunities for performance improvements
• Carry out accurate implementation work as agreed with mid and senior team members
• Support Paid Media Directors in ads localisation projects for international markets

Key Competencies

• Able to confidently build campaigns across multiple paid media platforms
• Understand standard best practice set-up requirements across multiple paid media platforms
• Able to interpret data, comfortable with numbers and Excel
• Basic understanding of Google Looker Studio, Google Tag Manager, and Google Analytics
• Pass all relevant media certifications
• Looks to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Good written and verbal communication internally
• Basic quality assurance of their own work
• Can work logically through a problem specific to their job role
• Attention to detail and Comfortable with project management

Experience

• 1+ years of experience managing paid media campaigns
• Basic understanding of Google Ads/Microsoft Ads/Facebook Ads Manager/LinkedIn Ads
• Comfortable with numbers and Excel

You Need to

• Be passionate about digital marketing
• Be organized, determined, and persistent
• Be self-driven, and results-oriented with a positive outlook
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Be a natural forward planner who critically assesses its own performance
• Have a strong customer service ethos and the ability to build lasting relationships
• Have meticulous attention to detail and be a perfectionist with a very analytical mind
• Have an ability to consistently hit deadlines and exceed expectations

Posted: 2026-06-26T14:17:09.084Z