SEO Manager
FTC, Maternity leave
D2C. Ecommerce Retail
Birmingham, 1 day per week
The Package:
- Competitive salary and regular reviews
- Extremely competitive benefits package, including:
- Annual salary review
- Share scheme
- 25 days holiday (+8 Bank Holidays)
- Ability to buy 5 additional days holiday
- Huge discounts across multiple brands
- Training and Development - time off work and paid for courses
- Hybrid/ Remote 1 day in the office
The Brand:
- Heritage brand with over 100 years in the market. Iconic brand name
- Multi-million turnover brand
- Private equity backed, multi-million continued investment
- Double digit growth YOY
- Record breaking years and on track to have the best ever year
- Hugely talented Digital Marketing team - award winning individual
- A team that are genuinely enthusiastic, driven and risk takers
The role:
- Define and own the SEO strategy, working with local technology and local marketing teams to implement
- Perform keyword research for all brands and key markets and define ranking approach and strategy for each brand
- Audit the technical set-up of each of the brands and define a recommended approach to optimising technical SEO and on-site strategy
- Work with the local brand marketing teams to ensure that their PR, content, and social strategies are maximising their potential from an SEO rankings perspective
- Work with the Digital Product Team to ensure that the websites are optimising both for user experience and SEO ranking potential
- Drive the use of technology, tools and data to streamline processes, efficiencies and drive decision-making in order to support ranking improvements.
- Summarise, analyse and present results, using the findings to feed back into strategy formulation
- Lead, manage and mentor the SEO team
- Manage and work with external partners and agencies to maximising output and performance as required
- Adopt a continual 'test and learn' approach to all SEO activities
- Research competitor activity and reporting on findings, gap analysis, etc.
Previous experience:
- 5 years experience in an SEO Strategy/Leadership role
- SEO experience in an E-commerce business preferred
- Travel experience would be ideal
- Strong technical knowledge and understanding with a flair for all things digital
- Experience in user experience and website optimisation, usability studies and A/B testing.
- Excellent quantitative analysis skills, with an intuitive mind and great problem-solving skills
- Driven, self-starter
- Effective and engaging communicator
- Excellent relationship building skills
- Experience of working in a matrixed organisation
- Experience of remote working and distributed teams
