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Dentsu International is a global leader that specializes in Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, and Retention to enable clients to keep “winning” whilst ensuring customer growth and experience is at the very forefront for their businesses.
We’re hiring a Technical SEO Manager as part of our team in either Manchester, London or Stafford working on a hybrid basis.
Purpose of the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious Technical SEO analyst, executive, or consultant looking to kick on to the next stage of their career.
The Technical SEO Manager will be joining a brilliant team of 22 Technical SEO specialists, working with an enviable list of international clients and household brands. You will be responsible for working with the SEO account teams in planning and delivering Technical SEO strategies for various global clients, as well as helping to drive Technical SEO expertise across the wider SEO team. You will have a chance to contribute to technicalseo.com and be encouraged to deepen your knowledge before sharing it with the industry.
CLIENT DELIVERY
* Act as the Technical SEO expert on SEO accounts, guiding the technical strategy creation, timelines, and delivery of recommendations.
* Oversee and lead the implementation of technical SEO recommendations as well as provide clients with consultancy throughout.
* Support the SEO account teams, building relationships with client stakeholders (across SEO and technical).
* Contribute to wider SEO strategy, tactics, reporting, and meetings where relevant.
* Contribute to new business pitches and our go-to-market strategy for SEO.
PRODUCT
* Contribute to team growth by sharing expertise, perspectives, and examples of exceptional deliverables as well as processes.
* Help with running training sessions for the Technical SEO and wider SEO teams.
* Work with directors to assist with pitches and new business.
Candidate Profile
SEO is a fast-moving industry, and sometimes the number of years isn’t the best metric to gauge knowledge and skills. We are looking for an ambitious Technical SEO professional who has 2-4 years of real experience either in-house at a large brand or agency-side.
Note: Experience agency-side is an advantage but not a prerequisite to applying for the role.
We are keen to meet anyone who is comfortable with most of the below and are flexible if you have strengths or weaknesses in particular areas. The role comes with comprehensive training and a supportive wider team.
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
* Excellent communication and presentation skills – both verbal and written.
* Able to confidently explain various aspects of Technical SEO to both internal teams and clients.
* Own relationship with counterparts in other departments and experienced in working on cross-channel products.
* Proven ability to delegate tasks accurately and effectively to other team members.
* Curious and constantly willing to learn.
TECHNICAL SEO
* Good understanding of how Technical SEO impacts performance, and at least basic knowledge across key areas such as:
* Technical SEO Auditing
* Website Migrations
* International SEO and Hreflang
* SEO Processes and scaling them Globally
* Googlebot Indexation and Rendering (Client vs Server Side)
* Core Web Vitals / Site Speed Optimization
* Popular CMS for E-Commerce
TOOLS
* Strong understanding of Google Search Console, and other Google Tools such as Page Speed Insights, Lighthouse, and Schema Testing Tool.
* Hands-on experience with SEO crawling tools, in particular Screaming Frog and DeepCrawl.
* Strong knowledge of Google Analytics or other analytics packages.
What we offer
This is a permanent role. The team is based from any of our UK offices in either Manchester, Stafford, or London on a hybrid working basis.
As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs which includes:
* Ongoing Training
* Company-provided Medical Healthcare
* Generous Pension provisions
* Health and Wellness benefits
* Life Assurance
* Working in diverse teams where you can make a real impact.
* Exciting and rewarding environment.
* Varied work across industries.
Great additional benefits
* 25 holidays per year, plus bank holidays, additional Christmas leave, and your birthday off. We also offer 2 paid volunteer charity days and 3 well-being days each year.
Inclusion and Diversity
Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners, and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds, and cultures.
We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.
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