About this job
<div><b style="font-size: 18px;">What we do. </b><span style="font-size: 18px;">Electric Car Leasing </span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 18px;">Why we do it.</b><span style="font-size: 18px;"> Greener. Fairer. Future.</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Over the last two years, consumer growth at Octopus Electric Vehicles has accelerated fast. We’ve grown our B2C activity significantly, and we’re now looking for someone brilliant to take day-to-day ownership of our digital performance engine.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">This is a hands-on role for someone who loves being close to the detail: building campaigns, digging into search query reports, spotting optimisation opportunities, improving audiences, testing creative, reporting clearly, and helping us move faster.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">You’ll sit in the B2C Growth squad, reporting into the Senior Growth Marketing Manager, and will own paid digital activity across paid search, programmatic and paid social. You’ll work closely with our Content Creator, Design team, Commercial team and wider Marketing team to get campaigns live quickly, optimise performance, and unlock new areas of growth.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Paid media is the heart of this role, but you'll also own key parts of the user journey, including writing, building, and launching campaign landing pages using our web tools to ensure end-to-end performance. Over time, there may also be the opportunity to support organic social planning, scheduling, and reporting alongside our Content Creator.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">This would suit someone with strong hands-on performance marketing experience, ideally from an agency or fast-paced digital environment, who is ready to step into an in-house role with more ownership, more visibility, and more chance to shape what happens next.</span></p>
<p> </p><br><strong>What you'll do</strong><br><p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">🚀 </span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Own our paid digital channels:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"> Build, manage and optimise campaigns across paid search, paid social and programmatic display, helping us reach more people ready to make the switch to electric.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">🔍 </span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Get properly stuck into the detail:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"> Dive into search query reports, audiences, bids, budgets and campaign performance to spot what’s working, what’s wasting spend, and where the next opportunity is.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">🔧 </span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Keep the digital engine humming:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"> Work hands-on across SA360, DV360, Campaign Manager and Meta Ads Manager, making sure campaigns are set up cleanly, tracking works, audiences flow through, and everything goes live without drama.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">📈 </span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Spend smartly:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"> Help manage digital spend within agreed monthly targets, reporting regularly on pacing, CPL and performance, with clear recommendations on where to push, pause or test next.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">🧪 </span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Test, learn, repeat:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"> Partner with our Content Creator and Design team to test new creative hooks, formats, audiences and messaging across paid search, paid social and programmatic.<br><br></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">📊 </span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Make reporting actually useful:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"> Turn channel data into clear, practical insight, helping the B2C squad understand what’s happening, why, and what we should do next.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">🌐 Own landing page launches & web optimisations:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Take end-to-end ownership when campaigns require new landing pages and other pieces of content like quizzes, drafting page copy (with support from the team), building them using our CMS/web tools, and setting them live.<br><br></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">🤝 </span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Make things happen:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"> Coordinate briefs, assets, links, tracking and launches across content, design, web and wider marketing teams so campaigns get live quickly and with as little faff as possible. You’ll also be happy jumping into wider growth priorities when the team needs it.</span></p><br><strong>What you'll need</strong><br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Strong paid search experience, with the confidence to build, manage and optimise campaigns day to day, including search query analysis, bid optimisation, budget pacing and performance reporting.<br><br></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Experience with Google Marketing Platform, especially SA360 and Campaign Manager. DV360 experience would be a big plus, particularly if you’ve worked on programmatic display campaigns.<br><br></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Experience managing paid social campaigns, ideally in Meta Ads Manager, with a good understanding of how creative, audiences, placements and formats affect performance.<br><br></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">A proper performance mindset. You enjoy digging into the numbers, finding wasted spend, spotting growth opportunities and working out what we should do next.<br><br></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Good tracking and reporting hygiene. You understand why UTMs, conversion tracking, audiences, naming conventions and clean campaign setup matter.<br><br></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">A roll-your-sleeves-up attitude. We move quickly, things change, and there’s always something new to figure out. You’ll enjoy this role if you like pace, variety, ownership, and the odd “this isn’t technically my job, but I can help” moment.<br><br></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">This role will suit someone driven, proactive and commercially minded, but also kind, low-ego, positive and fun to work with</span></p>
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<br><strong>Why else you'll love it here </strong><br>
<li>💰 Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!<br><br></li>
<li>🎉 Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! 🎁 Visit our perks hub - <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://octopus.energy/octopus-employee-benefits/" class="postings-link">Octopus Employee Benefits</a><br><br></li>
<li>🏆 Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.thetimes.com/static/best-places-to-work-2024-big/" class="postings-link">best company to work for in 2024</a>. We were named 6th out of the <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.heytempo.com/super-startups-list-2025/" class="postings-link">top 100 start-ups</a> to work for by Tempo in 2025 and on Glassdoor we were voted <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-UK-2022-LST_KQ0,27.htm" class="postings-link">50 best places to work</a> in 2022. Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://octopus.energy/blog/podcast/" class="postings-link">podcast about our culture</a> and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.businessleader.co.uk/the-top-25-uk-companies-for-senior-leadership-revealed-by-glassdoor/" class="postings-link">top 10 companies for senior leadership</a></li>
<br><strong>Things to note</strong><br>
<li>🐶 <em>just to let you know, we are dog friendly company so you may see our 4 legged friends in the offices - feel free to bring yours! Rest assured though, we've taken lots of precautions for those who have allergies</em><em><br></em></li>
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<p><em>🤖 We use AI to help us assess applications fairly and objectively. We’re totally fine with you using AI as a tool to help prepare too. That said, when we get to the interview and assessment stage, we’re really interested in hearing your unique perspective and real-world stories. That’s the stuff we can’t get from a bot or a prompt!</em></p>
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<div><strong style="font-size: 18px;">About us </strong></div>
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<div>The electric revolution has arrived - and from 2035 you’ll no longer be able to buy a new petrol or diesel car in the UK. </div>
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<div>We’re building a whole new way for drivers to join the electric charge and not only learn about and shop for their EV online, but experience a 'lease for life' through an industry changing customer experience. This is the chance to join one of the UK’s most exciting start-ups – making it easy for individuals and businesses to go electric by getting their car, charger and energy all in one cracking deal.</div>
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<div>Octopus Electric Vehicles launched in 2018 to make it seamless to switch to cleaner, greener driving. Our mission is to drive sustainable change, decarbonise the planet and provide our customers with fair pricing and a fantastic experience. </div>
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<div>We're an Octopus Energy company—an innovative new energy supplier. We are part of the Octopus Energy Group, which seeks to improve the lives of millions of people by transforming the industries we operate in. The Octopus Group incorporates Octopus Energy, Octopus Healthcare, Octopus Investments, Octopus Property, Octopus Ventures and Octopus Labs.</div>
<div> </div><div><br></div><div><b>If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. </b></div><div><br></div><div><i>Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have all the tools and environment you need to unleash your potential. </i><b><i>Need any specific accommodations? </i></b><i>Whether you require specific accommodations or have a unique preference, let us know, and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process for comfort and maximum magic!</i></div><div><br></div><div><i>Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.</i></div><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk">Jobs in United Kingdom</a> on Arbeitnow</a>