Forward Role are proud to be working with a well-known, long-established B2B organisation to find an experienced, technically strong Performance Marketing Manager to lead performance across paid search, SEO and social - both paid and organic. Performance Marketing Manager / Senior Bolton (Hybrid, 3 days on site) £60,000 This isn't a role for a single-channel specialist. My client needs someone who understands how search, organic and social affect each other - how paid activity supports organic demand, how social creates demand that search later captures, and how to judge performance across the whole mix rather than one channel in isolation. You'll help shape the strategy and make sure it's delivered, equally comfortable presenting a recommendation to senior leaders as you are going into an ad account and questioning a bidding decision. You'll manage a mix of specialist external partners and an in-house team, so this role needs real technical depth alongside the leadership skills to get the best out of both. Key Responsibilities Own performance across paid search, SEO, paid social and organic social, managing budgets and channel mix against agreed cost-per-lead and ROAS targets Understand and measure the halo effect between channels, including how paid activity affects organic, brand and direct demand Set clear scopes, targets and expectations for PPC, paid social and SEO partners - going into the accounts yourself to review structure, bidding, audiences, keywords and creative, rather than taking recommendations at face value Hold partners to account for delivery, performance and value for money, and make sure their knowledge builds up inside the business over time Line-manage SEO Technical, SEO Content and Organic Social specialists, setting clear objectives and coaching regularly Turn agency strategic advice into a prioritised roadmap the in-house team owns and delivers Work closely with Campaign & CRM Marketing and Customer & Digital Product teams to support wider campaigns, landing pages and the onsite journey Help shape performance marketing strategy with the Head of Performance Marketing, and turn data into clear insight and recommendations for senior leaders Present trade-offs honestly - volume against margin, short term against long term, paid against organic Stay ahead of platform changes, AI-driven search and automation, testing new ideas quickly and scaling what works Work hands-on in Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, GA4 and SEO tools, and ensure tracking, attribution and conversion data are accurate and trusted What You'll Bring Strong technical knowledge of paid search, plus solid working knowledge of SEO and paid and organic social Proven experience managing agencies and contractors, and getting the best from them The confidence and technical depth to challenge specialists in their own area A clear understanding of how channels affect each other, with experience measuring halo and incrementality A track record of improving performance against return, cost-per-acquisition or margin targets Experience leading and developing direct reports Confidence with data, attribution and GA4 The ability to influence senior stakeholders and explain complex performance simply A commercial mindset that focuses on profit, not just volume If you're a performance marketer who thrives on owning the full channel mix - not just one slice of it - and want to join a well-established, well-known B2B name at an exciting stage of growth, I'd love to hear from you. As an industry leading, nationwide Marketing, Digital, Analytics, IT and Design recruitment agency, we are continually receiving new assignments to work on, so keep a close eye on our website, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages for a full list of current permanent and interim opportunities as well as marketplace news and fun stuff.Forward Role is operating as an employment agency.

Are you a Data Scientist who is looking to get involved in projects and data relating to our national security?Data Scientist (AI/ML)Location: London, Surrey, Cheltenham or ManchesterClearance: Active eDV Clearance RequiredSalary: £50,000-£85,000 per annum + DV BonusIf you're tired of building models that never leave the notebook, this one goes live.You'd join a specialist security and intelligence consultancy that works on live government programmes, putting ML into operational systems that analysts and mission teams use every day. You'll sit in a small, multi-disciplinary agile team with data engineers, software engineers and the end users themselves, so you see what your work changes.You won't be "the data person" bolted onto someone else's delivery team. You'll help shape the AI/ML approach, get close to the customer, and have a say in how models are built, validated and deployed in secure environments.What you'll be working on ML and NLP models for intelligence data: pattern detection, data matching, anomaly spottingAutomated triage and analysis of large, messy, multi-source datasets (sensor, geospatial, comms)Graph analytics and time-series workData and ML pipelines built for production, not demosDashboards and tools that non-technical users can act onPython (Pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow), Spark and AWS  Why it's worth a look Real operational deployment, not endless proofs of conceptDirect contact with the people using what you buildRoom to lead on AI/ML strategy and best practice as you grow Must have: Experience of Python-based data science and ML, and some exposure to NLP or graph analytics.Comfortable with sensitive data.Able to explain complex analysis to non-specialists. As an industry leading, nationwide Marketing, Digital, Analytics, IT and Design recruitment agency, we are continually receiving new assignments to work on, so keep a close eye on our website, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages for a full list of current permanent and interim opportunities as well as marketplace news and fun stuff. Forward Role is operating as an employment agency.

A defence and national security consultancy is looking for a senior engineer to own the design of its cloud-native data platformsTitle: Data EngineerLocation: London, Cheltenham, Manchester or SurreySalary: £55,000 - £85,000 plus DV bonusClearance: Active eDV requiredLevel: Mid/SeniorTired of keeping pipelines alive? Move into a role where you own the architecture.The customers are in Defence, Government and National Security, and the datasets are big, messy and multi-source.You'll work closely with data scientists, software engineers and architects, and directly with the client, so you always know what the platform is for.What you'll be working on Data platforms and pipelines, batch and streaming, built for scaleData lakes and cloud-native architecture on AWS or AzureIngesting and integrating data from lots of different sourcesData foundations for analytics, AI and ML workloadsDevSecOps and Infrastructure as CodePython, SQL, Spark, Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD  Why it's worth a look Real influence over how platforms get designed and builtClose to the customer and the decision-makersExposure to AI/ML workloads, not just moving data from A to B  Must have: commercial data engineering experience, strong Python and SQL, hands-on Spark, and cloud-native platform experience on AWS or Azure. Comfortable with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD.Nice to have: data modelling and metadata management, AI/ML pipelines and feature engineering.As an industry leading, nationwide Marketing, Digital, Analytics, IT and Design recruitment agency, we are continually receiving new assignments to work on, so keep a close eye on our website, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages for a full list of current permanent and interim opportunities as well as marketplace news and fun stuff. Forward Role is operating as an employment agency.