Digital Marketing Executive (12 month fixed-term contract)

In a nutshell

This is a brilliant opportunity for a Digital Marketing Executive who wants to build breadth and depth across digital channels. You’ll play a key role in managing and improving our website, co-ordinating our SEO and paid media activity, and creating engaging content - all while being part of an ambitious and supportive marketing team.

You’ll also act as a key link between our marketing agency and internal stakeholders - helping to brief activity, sense-check outputs and ensure the agency is working in alignment with our wider marketing priorities.

It’s a hands-on role with real responsibility, ideal for someone who’s curious, proactive and keen to develop their digital skillset in a collaborative environment.

What you'll be doing day to day

• Managing and maintaining our website, ensuring content is accurate, accessible, up to date and optimised for great user experience
• Undertaking SEO activity, including on-page optimisation, content improvements and performance monitoring
• Assisting with paid media campaigns across digital channels, helping to optimise performance
• Creating and repurposing digital content for the website and other marketing channels
• Acting as a day-to-day point of with our digital marketing agency, helping to translate marketing priorities into clear briefs and ensuring activity is effective
• Using data to understand what’s working, spot opportunities, and help guide both internal activity and agency work in line with our strategic priorities
• Collaborating with colleagues across the wider marketing team, supporting them to make effective use of digital channels

About you

• You have experience of digital marketing including some or all of website management, SEO, paid media, and digital content creation
• You’re organised, detail-focused and comfortable juggling multiple tasks and priorities
• You enjoy working collaboratively and are keen to learn from others, while also confident enough to take ownership of your work
• You’re curious about performance and data, with a desire to understand what drives results
• You’re a clear communicator, comfortable working with agencies and internal stakeholders, able to ask the right questions, challenge constructively, and keep activity focused on what matters most
• You’re enthusiastic, proactive and motivated to develop your digital marketing career within a supportive, high-performing team
• You’ll need experience of using GA4 and Google Search Console, and it’s desirable that you’ll be familiar with Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads Manager and an SEO tool such as Ahrefs

Why work at PKF Francis Clark

As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisers in South West England, PKF Francis Clark offers a breadth of opportunities to develop your career in the way that’s right for you. 

Established in 1919, we’ve grown to a team of nearly 1,000 people, based across our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro. This means we’re big enough to do challenging work for exciting clients, but small enough to maintain our friendly and supportive culture. 

We work hard to ensure you can belong, be yourself and be brilliant as part of a forward-thinking team. This includes a flexible approach to hybrid working. And our focus on wellbeing and learning and development has been recognised nationally. 

For the past three years, PKF Francis Clark has been certified as a Great Place to Work and ranked among the UK’s Best Workplaces. In 2025, we climbed four places to 20 out of 100 large organisations on this prestigious list. 

We’re also in the UK’s top 10 Best Workplaces for Women (6 out of 100 large organisations), as well as being ranked among the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (35 out of 100), Best Workplaces for Development (24 out of 100) and Best Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services. 

All these lists are compiled by workplace culture experts Great Place to Work. Our rankings are a direct result of feedback from our people in a confidential, independent annual survey. 

The success rates of our trainees mean we’re also ranked 33rd in The Sunday Times Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers 2025. 

While we’re proudly independent, we collaborate with colleagues around the world to enable our clients to succeed. PKF Francis Clark is a member of the PKF Global family of firms – together we’re the 12th largest provider of accountancy services in the UK. Being part of this international network provides opportunities to connect with like-minded accountants and business advisers in 150 countries. 

Your core benefits 

Financial benefits:
•    Pension
•    Group life assurance - up to four times your core salary
•    Group income protection
•    Health cash plan to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare 

Health & Wellbeing benefits:
•    Option to buy 5 extra days holiday*
•    Counselling and support for you and your immediate family
•    Virtual GP for you and your immediate family
•    Cycle to work*

Other benefits:
•    Medicash Extras providing you with shopping and gym discounts
•    Gifts for career and family milestones
•    One volunteering day per year to support local organisations
•    Emergency funding from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation 

Please note
* These benefits are provided via a salary exchange and are subject to employee’s post exchange hourly rate remaining above the national minimum wage.

Additional information 

• Please be aware that the job title used internally may not align exactly with the title displayed in this advert
• This is a 12-month fixed term contract providing essential cover within the marketing team

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