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Thuha Wright

Performance Marketing Expert

Thuha Wright

Previously from Travelopia.

Thuha Wright is a performance marketing expert with 13 years of experience developing and implementing short-term and medium-term digital marketing strategies for all channels such as PPC, programmatic, paid social, and SEO. Her past clients include TrustedHousesitters, Explore Worldwide, and Rickshaw Travel. She was the former head of biddable media at Travelopia, responsible for overseeing the programmatic, paid social, and PPC growth campaigns across Tailormade UK and Marine brands. In 2016, she was nominated for the Travolution award for Best Use of Search Engine Marketing.

Performance Marketing
Digital Marketing
PPC
Google Ads
Facebook Ads
Programmatic Display
Paid Social
SEO
SEM
Social Media Marketing
Google Analytics
Link Building
Account Management
DoubleClick Search
Google Adwords Search
Google Data Studio
Online Marketing
Thuha Wright

Thuha Wright

Previously from Travelopia.

Performance Marketing Expert

Thuha is Available for Projects

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Employment Highlights

Performance Marketing Specialist

Independent

July 2018 - Present (5 years 10 months)

Head of Biddable Media

Travelopia (Formerly Specialist Holidays Group)

September 2016 - April 2018 (1 year 8 months)

Senior PPC Manager

Travelopia (Formerly Specialist Holidays Group)

January 2015 - August 2016 (1 year 8 months)

PPC Manager & Digital Team Leader

Travelopia (Formerly Specialist Holidays Group)

October 2012 - September 2015 (3 years)

Education Highlights

CIM Professional Postgraduate Diploma, Marketing

Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)

September 2003 - June 2006 (2 years 10 months)

BSc, Mathematics with Management

University of London, Royal Holloway

September 1999 - June 2002 (2 years 10 months)

Resume

Performance Marketing Specialist

Independent

July 2018 - Present (5 years 10 months)

Thuha has worked on variety of projects for several clients.


As a performance marketer for TrustedHousesitters:

  • Managed transition of international PPC accounts from agency to in-house.
  • Implemented optimization recommendations to hit CPA and ROI targets set within two months. 

As a performance marketer for Explore Worldwide:

  • Oversaw PPC, display, retargeting, SEO, affiliates, conversion optimization managed by external agencies.
  • Recruited digital marketing team, filling three vacancies.
  • Re-established team relationship with Infinity call tracking.
  • Set up in-house team managing Facebook Ads.
  • Key achievements: Google Analytics UTM audit, improved visibility as to where PPC budget was spent, 22% YoY uplift in calls generated.

As a performance marketer for Rickshaw Travel:

  • Acted as mentor to PPC executive.
  • Assisted in setting out medium-term PPC and retargeting strategy.
  • Built Google Analytics Data Studio report.

Head of Biddable Media

Travelopia (Formerly Specialist Holidays Group)

September 2016 - April 2018 (1 year 8 months)

  • Oversaw the programmatic, paid social, and PPC growth strategies across Tailormade UK and Marine brands.
  • Managed a team of seven PPC specialists, some members were French and German speakers.
  • Worked as the lead on recruitment and training.
  • Built roadmap and managed delivery.
  • Assisted e-commerce and digital teams as a consultant on their PPC strategy for Tailormade Ireland and Scandinavia brands.
  • Partnered with external agencies to ensure the team was at forefront of Biddable Media products and technologies, including Google, Bing, Periscopix, CACI, Jellyfish, Quantcast, Tripadvisor, and Flashtalking.
  • Worked with senior stakeholders to ensure digital marketing strategy is in-line with business/brand strategies. Call Tracking tools used were Google Call forwarding, Infinity call tracking, and Response Tap.
  • Developed regression modelling to forecast leads.
  • Built customer journey to identify retargeting opportunities/audiences.
  • Worked with L&D to plan group-wide marketing conferences.
  • Worked with finance business partner to reduce FX exposure by £35,000.
  • Set up best practice goals, views, channel groupings within GA and built business reports with Data Studio for top-level reporting and optimization. 

Senior PPC Manager

Travelopia (Formerly Specialist Holidays Group)

January 2015 - August 2016 (1 year 8 months)

  • Managed three teams responsible for executing UK and international PPC campaigns across two office locations.
  • Successfully transitioned half the team to Crystal Ski from SHG to TUI following SHG sale. 

PPC Manager & Digital Team Leader

Travelopia (Formerly Specialist Holidays Group)

October 2012 - September 2015 (3 years)

  • Managed the £4 million budget.
  • Coordinated digital marketing activities with marketing teams and co-planned integrated marketing plans.
  • Managed coordination of SEO, social media, display, affiliate, and PPC activity.
  • Acted as the program manager of SHG Digital Academy.
  • Set up and implemented automated reports to demonstrate to wider team that PPC budget was spent in the right places and demonstrate how team was tracking against budget.
  • Aided brands in their digital transformation via step changes and helped wider teams to make step changes and break down silos.

Online Marketing Specialist

Travelopia (Formerly Specialist Holidays Group)

December 1011 - September 2012 (1000 years 10 months)

  • Provided daily PPC management of five luxury holiday brands, including GDN remarketing.
  • Performed keyword generation and research, ad copy writing, account optimization, and forecasting.

Education

CIM Professional Postgraduate Diploma, Marketing

Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)

September 2003 - June 2006 (2 years 10 months)

BSc, Mathematics with Management

University of London, Royal Holloway

September 1999 - June 2002 (2 years 10 months)