Seo Manager

Our Client are an experienced and growth focused digital marketing agency. Trusted by hundreds of SMEs and large enterprises and offering full-service, award-winning digital marketing, you’ll be part of a privately owned, boutique, digital marketing agency that’s a really lovely place to work. Working across multiple sectors within B2B & Ecommerce, such as retail, hospitality, leisure, travel & tourism, gaming, property & construction, there is never a dull moment in this busy agency.

The Role:

This is a role best suited to someone passionate and ambitious with a high level of analytics and SEO experience. We’re looking for someone with excellent SEO ability but who is also excited to help achieve the department and agency growth plans.

This is an opportunity for someone who is self-driven and wants to create their own department and team. We are looking for an experienced SEO Manager who has a proven track record of running SEO campaigns [ideally agency side] and who can clearly explain to the client the impact of the results and how they support the broader business goals.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Creation and ownership of overall SEO strategy for a client’s websites and digital properties
• Acting as the main point of SEO contact for your clients, whilst being hands on with strategising campaigns to reach clients goals, and implementing technical SEO as needed
• Implementation of the SEO strategy; working with a clear and defined set of KPIs for each project
• Delivery of projects including technical SEO, site audits, keyword research, competitor analysis, backlink analysis and more
• Ongoing monthly optimisation of SEO campaigns
• Ensuring clients are kept up to date on changes and progress within their campaign and how the work is impacting their business goals, whilst dealing with any queries that arise
• Bespoke client reporting. Reporting on the work and results, showcasing a strong knowledge of client objectives and how campaign results are linked to their business goals
• Monitoring and understanding client markets and environments, whilst remaining up to date with latest trends and updates in the industry as a whole
• Identifying opportunities to improve performance in organic search results and clearly communicating these to the client
• Growing the SEO department, maintaining our excellent levels of retention, networking and promoting the agency and our credentials to bring in new business to the channel.
• Ensuring individual KPIs are met each month to aid career progression
• Supporting the MD and other team members in new business pitches and identification of upsell and growth opportunities
• Development of the SEO department client roster as well as recruitment of additionally required resources, training and on-going support

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years SEO experience, ideally gained from working for a professional digital marketing agency. At least 1 year in a management position.
• Strong analytical capabilities and proven experience of providing clients with comprehensive SEO consultation and execution services
• Expert knowledge of SEO strategies and best practices including technical, on page and off page
• Excellent attention to detail and a high level of organisation and diligence
• Forward thinking and results driven, with a strong sense of ownership and eagerness to learn
• Excellent working knowledge of industry-leading tools such as SEMrush, Google Tag Manager (GTM), GA4, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, Accuranker and more
• Experience with CMS systems such as WordPress and Shopify
• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Experience with B2B and ecommerce brands
• Client-facing experience and strong presentation skills, excellent reporting skills with a proactive approach
• Commercial awareness to drive businesses forwards
• A willingness to learn, research and use initiative
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and deliver results
• Excellent time management skills
• Outstanding organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to prioritise
• Work as a team player whilst being able to work on set individual performance goals and KPIs
• Excellent written and verbal communication and literacy skills
• Perfect command of the English language

Benefits:

Every Day’s A School Day: We’ll champion you not only to excel at your job but also to develop a tonne of skills along the way. That’s why you’ll get dedicated time for personal development, and we provide tickets to world-class industry conferences such as BrightonSEO to help you keep your knowledge fresh.

Your Work, Your Way: We offer fully remote working to all our employees so you can make the most of your personal life without having to travel to and from an office. We do host meet ups at our HQ in Lee-on-the-Solent so we all get to see each other once and a while to catch up. Our working hours are flexible so if you’ve got somewhere else to be before or after work, you just want a lie-in or fancy an earlier finish, you need to simply adjust your hours to suit. We also provide company laptops, additional monitors, and anything else you need to be comfortable working from home.

It’s Your Birthday - Have a Day Off: We love to celebrate each and every one of the agency family’s birthdays. That’s why, as well as your holiday allowance, you’ll also get your birthday off.

You’ll Be Well Looked After: We offer our employees a competitive salary, pension, free eye tests and glasses allowance. As a company in general, we pride ourselves on having an approachable and friendly team that supports and elevates one another.

Become An Industry Voice: We’re keen for each employee to develop their name within the industry; we’ll provide you with time to write for the Agency blog and if you want to speak at an industry event, we’ll support you to do just that.

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, please apply today:

Important - this is a 100% remote role, but you must be UK based for Client visits.