Digital Performance Specialist (SEO & PPC) Burnley, Lancashire

Job duration Full-time

The role

This role is for someone who genuinely cares about results. Someone who enjoys understanding how performance fits together across search visibility, paid activity, landing pages, tracking, reporting, and the wider user journey.

We are looking for a person with strong core capability in SEO, supported by solid PPC experience, who wants to play a more meaningful role in how performance is shaped, delivered, and improved. We want someone who can spot patterns, ask better questions, understand what matters to clients, and help improve results across the full journey.

You will work closely with our marketing, design, development, and account management teams to ensure SEO and PPC activity is aligned with wider client objectives and properly supported at every stage. This is not a role focused on managing activity for the sake of it. It is about contributing clear thinking, useful recommendations, and work that leads to measurable improvement.

The opportunity

At Root Fifty-Two, we work across a varied portfolio of client accounts, supporting businesses with joined-up thinking across brand, digital, creative, web, and marketing.

We are now looking to strengthen the performance side of that offer with someone who can bring sharper thinking and stronger ownership to our SEO and PPC work.

This is not a role for someone who wants to stay in a narrow channel lane. It is for someone who understands that performance depends on more than impressions, clicks, or dashboard output. We want someone who can interpret what matters, identify where improvements can be made, and work with the wider team to turn those insights into action.

SEO will be the heavier weighting of this role, with PPC forming an important secondary discipline. The right candidate will be confident in the day-to-day delivery of search and paid activity, but will also be motivated by the bigger picture: understanding what is helping performance, what is holding it back, and where better results can be achieved.

You will support Account Managers where needed and join occasional client calls, but this is primarily an internally focused role within a collaborative team, with the opportunity to help raise the standard of how performance is delivered and understood across the agency.

What you'll be working on

• Plan, manage, and improve SEO activity across a range of client accounts
• Support the setup, optimisation, and ongoing management of PPC campaigns, primarily in Google Ads, Meta & LinkedIn
• Carry out keyword research, search intent analysis, competitor review, and performance monitoring
• Identify opportunities to improve traffic quality, lead quality, and conversion performance
• Work alongside internal design, development, and marketing teams to help strengthen results across the wider journey
• Input into landing page recommendations, tracking requirements, technical considerations, and content direction where relevant
• Use tools such as GA4, Google Search Console, Google Tag Manager, Looker Studio, and SEMrush to analyse performance and identify meaningful insight
• Produce reporting and recommendations that are clear, commercially relevant, and understandable for both clients and internal teams
• Support Account Managers with occasional client calls and performance input where required
• Contribute ideas, recommendations, and improvements that strengthen Root Fifty-Two's wider performance offer.

What we're looking for

• Strong hands on SEO experience, with good working knowledge of PPC
• Likely 3-5+ years' experience in a search, digital marketing, or performance focused role
• Good understanding of Google Ads, GA4, Search Console, Tag Manager, Looker Studio, and SEMrush
• Confident interpreting data and turning it into clear, practical actions
• Genuinely interested in outcomes, not just task completion or platform output
• Comfortable working across multiple client accounts and internal teams
• Agency experience is helpful, but not essential
• Confident contributing internally and supporting client facing conversations when required

What success looks like

• SEO and PPC activity is well managed, clearly prioritised, and consistently improved
• Reporting is clear, commercially relevant, and helps clients and internal teams understand what matters
• Opportunities to improve traffic quality, lead quality, and conversion performance are identified and acted upon
• Recommendations are practical, well considered, and contribute to stronger performance across the wider journey
• Internal teams receive clear input that helps work move forward efficiently and effectively
• Your work contributes to better results, stronger client understanding and confidence, and more effective overall performance offer

Why join our team?

Root Fifty-Two is a collaborative agency environment where marketing, design, digital, and strategy work closely together. This role offers the chance to be part of a team with strong internal support, while still having the space to influence outcomes and raise the standard of performance delivery.

For the right person, this is an opportunity to move beyond narrow channel delivery and contribute to work that is better connected, better understood, and more valuable to the clients we support.

• Be part of a forward thinking agency with a collaborative, values driven culture.
• Work alongside a passionate, multi disciplinary team.
• Influence the future direction of the business at a strategic level.
• Early finish Fridays
• Beer fridge
• Birthdays off

What's in it for you Hybrid & flexitime working

Our working week is 35.5 hours, and the core hours are 10:00 - 16:00, so you can start and finish whenever you want, provided you're working during those hours. Friday's also have the bonus of being able to finish at 15:30. At least one day a week can be spent working in the comfort of your own home.

Time off

The role comes with 28 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays), plus for every year of your services your holiday allowance increases by a day. You also get an additional day off on your birthday to celebrate (or mourn) being a year older.

Our canal side studio smack bang in the middle of Burnley has areas for both collaborative work or some quiet time, and a beer fridge and dart board. There is also on site car parking available.

Our culture of growth and progression comes with your own personal budget for training, allowing you to learn something new, get better at what you're already good at, or improve your soft skills like public speaking.

Away from your desk

We have regular team lunches, walking meetings, quarterly days away, and random nights out, especially as the weather gets nicer.

This role is perfect if you want to work in a fast paced, creative agency where no two days are the same. If that sounds good to you, fire over your CV to