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William Ryan

Fairfield,CT

Summary

Versatile Senior Manager specializing in Paid Search Marketing and skilled at planning, implementing and overseeing key improvements to drive business growth and efficiency. History of cultivating an open culture with free exchange of information. Pursuing new professional challenges with a growth-oriented company.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager, Paid Search

Verizon
07.2021 - Current
  • Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
  • Led cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliver high-quality results.
  • Established strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, ensuring long-term partnerships and repeat business.
  • Improved team performance by providing comprehensive training and fostering a collaborative work environment.
  • Collaborated closely with peers from other departments to drive organizational success jointly as one cohesive unit.
  • Reduced costs, optimized resource allocation, and improved efficiency in managing projects.
  • Mentored junior staff members for skill development and career progression within the organization.
  • Implemented and developed operational standards, policies and procedures.
  • Achieved operational excellence by streamlining processes and implementing best practices.
  • Demonstrated exceptional adaptability in navigating complex situations or rapidly changing environments with ease.
  • Conducted performance evaluations, compensations and hiring to maintain appropriate staffing requirements.
  • Balanced competing priorities efficiently while maintaining focus on critical tasks requiring immediate attention.
  • Implemented innovative solutions to overcome challenges, leading to enhanced productivity levels.
  • Utilized data-driven insights to make informed decisions that resulted in higher returns on investments.

Senior Search Specialist

T-Mobile
07.2020 - 07.2021

• Oversaw T-Mobile Paid Search, managing performance strategy, implementation and multi-million-dollar investment for all programs.
• Managed the Paid Search audience strategy and implementation, both internally and externally across the search engines, GA and AAM.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to maintain audiences, tags, tracking, campaign goals, best practices, etc.
• Balanced varying campaign tactics with hyper tailored messaging, promoting compelling plans and offers, and ideating new custom landing pages.
• Put automation in place to identify errors, issues & opportunities.
• Effectively managed all projects from start to finish while pulling in necessary resources and maximizing resource efficiencies and output.

Paid Search Marketing Manager

Sprint
04.2018 - 07.2020

• Oversaw Sprint Paid Search, managing strategy, implementation and multi-million-dollar investment for base customers and prospecting.
• Collaborated directly with internal teams across disciplines to reach campaign goals, share optimizations, update custom landing pages, etc.
• Coordinated landing page testing for Paid Search using sales performance data to test new user experiences and lift the page conversion rate.
• Key contributor to winning and the submission writer of the “2019 in-house SEM team of the year” award from Search Engine Land.

Associate Director, Search & Performance Marketing

Beeby Clark+Meyler
11.2015 - 07.2018

• Lead Global Programmatic Search Team on high profile accounts within North America, the Caribbean and Latin America.
• Coordinated implementation, management, and execution of global SEM efforts across multiple agency teams.
• Managed the relationship between vendors and clients to ensure hyper tailored strategies, including automation, bid strategies, audience
targeting, new Beta tests, and industry updates.

Search & Connections Planning Supervisor

MRY
11.2013 - 10.2015

Manager, Search & Performance Marketing

Beeby Clark+Meyler
12.2011 - 11.2013

Senior Analyst, Search Marketing

Publicis Modem
10.2008 - 12.2011

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

Providence College
Providence, RI
05.2008

Skills

  • Strategic Planning
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Operations Management
  • Troubleshooting and problem resolution
  • Data-driven decision-making
  • Documentation and Reporting
  • Talent Development
  • Budget Oversight
  • Resource Allocation
  • Team Management and Growth
  • Partnership Development
  • Organizational Development

Timeline

Senior Manager, Paid Search

Verizon
07.2021 - Current

Senior Search Specialist

T-Mobile
07.2020 - 07.2021

Paid Search Marketing Manager

Sprint
04.2018 - 07.2020

Associate Director, Search & Performance Marketing

Beeby Clark+Meyler
11.2015 - 07.2018

Search & Connections Planning Supervisor

MRY
11.2013 - 10.2015

Manager, Search & Performance Marketing

Beeby Clark+Meyler
12.2011 - 11.2013

Senior Analyst, Search Marketing

Publicis Modem
10.2008 - 12.2011

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

Providence College
William Ryan