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I am a digital marketing professional with extensive experience leading digital marketing for commercial and not-for-profit/charity campaigns. I currently work as a PPC freelancer at McCarthy Marketing, driving campaign performance across a number of clients/verticals and building a successful business. I aim to blend data & insights with creative strategies to maximise client value and campaign impact. I have a strong track record of YoY improvements, strategic digital planning, and cross-functional collaboration. I’m passionate about leveraging data science and AI to optimise campaigns, train teams across charities, and develop scalable digital products and initiatives.…I am a digital marketing professional with extensive experience leading digital marketing for commercial and not-for-profit/charity campaigns. I currently work as a PPC freelancer at McCarthy Marketing, driving campaign performance across a number of clients/verticals and building a successful business. I aim to blend data & insights with creative strategies to maximise client value and campaign impact. I have a strong track record of YoY improvements, strategic digital planning, and cross-functional collaboration. I’m passionate about leveraging data science and AI to optimise campaigns, train teams across charities, and develop scalable digital products and initiatives.

Conor McCarthy

Marketing Strategist, Marketing Analyst, Product Marketer, +5

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I am a digital marketing professional with extensive experience leading digital marketing for commercial and not-for-profit/charity campaigns. I currently work as a PPC freelancer at McCarthy Marketing, driving campaign performance across a number of clients/verticals and building a successful business. I aim to blend data & insights with creative strategies to maximise client value and campaign impact. I have a strong track record of YoY improvements, strategic digital planning, and cross-functional collaboration. I’m passionate about leveraging data science and AI to optimise campaigns, train teams across charities, and develop scalable digital products and initiatives.…I am a digital marketing professional with extensive experience leading digital marketing for commercial and not-for-profit/charity campaigns. I currently work as a PPC freelancer at McCarthy Marketing, driving campaign performance across a number of clients/verticals and building a successful business. I aim to blend data & insights with creative strategies to maximise client value and campaign impact. I have a strong track record of YoY improvements, strategic digital planning, and cross-functional collaboration. I’m passionate about leveraging data science and AI to optimise campaigns, train teams across charities, and develop scalable digital products and initiatives.

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I am a digital marketing professional with extensive experience leading digital marketing for commercial and not-for-profit/charity campaigns. I currently work as a PPC freelancer at McCarthy Marketing, driving campaign performance across a number of clients/verticals and building a successful business. I aim to blend data & insights with creative strategies to maximise client value and campaign impact.

I have a strong track record of YoY improvements, strategic digital planning, and cross-functional collaboration. I’m passionate about leveraging data science and AI to optimise campaigns, train teams across charities, and develop scalable digital products and initiatives.

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Work Experience

Senior Digital Marketing Manager at GOSH Charity

February 1, 2023 - Present

Senior Digital Marketing Manager; performance lead for key fundraising appeals (Christmas Appeal, Build it. Beat it.; Children’s Cancer Centre appeal; RBC Race for the Kids). Drove improvements across donation types (one-off, regular givers, sign-ups, free will guides, in-memory donations & community events). Achievements include 22% YoY income increase for Christmas Appeal 2023 with a 5% spend increase; 28% YoY sign-ups for Race For The Kids 2024; 6% YoY increase in Challenge Event sign-ups in 2025 despite a 20% spend drop; led the The Great Family Walk virtual NPD concept; managed a 5-person Digital Engagement team; provided strategic digital guidance across fundraising products, media agencies, and product development; centralised dashboard reporting; led digital upskilling and an AI-based onboarding program for paid digital marketing.

Global Biddable Account Manager at Performics

June 1, 2021 - October 1, 2022

Managed a 6-person paid search team on the Enterprise Rent-A-Car account across 5 markets (~£6m/year) and a 2-person paid social team on InterSnacks across Meta, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. Responsible for delivering client targets, activation, optimisation & reporting. Developed 2022 PPC strategy focusing on efficiency, growth, awareness and account hygiene; rolled out SA360 & ATB tROAS bidding.

Global Paid Search Account Manager at Mediacom

November 1, 2019 - April 1, 2021

Managed a 5-person team on the Reebok eCommerce account across 19 markets (€7m/year) with Google Ads & Microsoft Advertising. Global Lead on adidas across LATAM, MENA, APAC & EU. Highlights include Reebok revenue growth of 63% YoY with 25% spend increase and 33% ROAS improvement; led SA360 ATB tROAS, feed optimisation & DSA restructure; oversaw 47 tests and cross-channel campaign integration; team structure and KPI governance; key stakeholder management with Google, Microsoft Advertising and translations agencies.

Senior Paid Search Planner at Mediacom

July 1, 2018 - October 1, 2019

Media planning, optimisation & communications on the PlayStation account across 25 markets (~€5m/year). Planned budgets for PlayStation Store & PlayStation Plus using ROI-based methods; coordinated with regional teams for launches; notable uplift includes 11% revenue increase post restructure; led text ads, Shopping, Amazon Advertising and cross-channel integration with programmatic & paid social.

Paid Search Account Manager at iProspect Ireland

December 1, 2016 - June 1, 2018

Managed 44 Google Ads accounts and 1 Bing Ads account (~€100k/month across 6 clients). Trained a paid search executive; contributed to HSE pitch; notable achievement: +80% Energia PPC sales within 2 months through account restructure, RLSA revamp, ECPC & ad testing; Best Search Campaign finalist; promoted from executive in 2017.

Digital Marketing Executive at Oliver Ireland

June 1, 2016 - November 1, 2016

Digital marketing executive responsible for managing and optimising Google Ads accounts, marketing analytics reporting and social media management.

Senior Digital Marketing Manager at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity

February 1, 2023 - April 1, 2026

Performance lead across major fundraising appeals including Christmas Appeal, Build it. Beat it. (Children’s Cancer Centre Appeal) and RBC Race for the Kids. Responsible for driving income growth across one-off donations, regular giving, virtual events, in-memory and free will guide acquisition. Led paid media performance across Google Ads (Paid Search, PMAX, Grant), Microsoft Ads and Paid Social on in-house campaigns and in collaboration with agency partners. Regularly review and challenge account structure, bidding strategies (tROAS / value-based bidding), asset groups and PMAX performance to maximise ROI. Support wider brand and fundraising campaigns with paid search and PMAX activation plans.

Global Biddable Account Manager at Performics (Publicis Groupe)

June 1, 2021 - October 1, 2022

Managed £6m annual Paid Search & YouTube budget across 5 markets for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Oversaw paid social campaigns across Meta, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok for InterSnacks. Led rollout of SA360 & automated bidding strategies including portfolio tROAS across paid search activity. Accountable for activation, optimisation, testing roadmap and reporting across enterprise accounts. Built strategic PPC roadmaps focused on efficiency, growth and account hygiene.

Paid Search Account Manager at iProspect

December 1, 2016 - June 1, 2018

Managed 45 Google Ads accounts and Microsoft Ads (~€100k/month spend). Delivered +80% PPC sales growth for Energia within 2 months via restructure, RLSA strategy and bid optimisation. Finalist – Best Search Campaign, Irish Digital Media Awards 2018. Promoted from Executive within 9 months.