SEO Executive in Manchester

Location: Manchester

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: Dentsu

Job Hours: Full-time

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The purpose of this role is to implement and execute SEO initiatives, in line with the agreed strategy, to maintain, develop and exceed client performance targets.

Job Title:

SEO Executive

Job Description:

Introduction

Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce, and experience, underpinned by modern creativity.

Dentsu International is a global leader that specialises 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 an SEO Executive as part of our team in Manchester.

Purpose of the Role & Key Responsibilities

We focus on helping clients deliver incredible search experiences for audiences. To do this you will be:

Working closely with Account leads to execute the tactical initiatives designed to successfully achieve dentsu’s clients’ SEO goals.

Engaging a 'problem-solving' mindset for challenges, managing time effectively, communicating clearly, and demonstrating have a keen attention to detail to ensure work is on time and of the highest standard.

Providing regular updates on timeline, deliverables, performance reporting, competitive intelligence analysis and other follow-up items

Extracting insight from campaign data, identifying relevant trends and providing well-developed proactive recommendations to enhance and exceed overall client search marketing goals and objectives.

Working closely with key team members including, but not limited to, Management, SEO Technicians, Content Strategists and Digital PR Specialists, as well as team members in other functions, to ensure client success.

Developing your SEO skills, through trainings, self-learning, and tackling new client challenges

Additionally, you may work with our Content and Technical SEO specialists, supporting with

Executing technical deliverables such as UAT checks, supporting web migrations, robots.txt checks, XML sitemap analysis, redirect mapping, canonical tags, broken links, 404 errors, unindexable pages etc.

Executing content deliverables such as content briefs, content audits, keyword research, competitor analysis, optimisation of landing pages, meta data review etc.

Key Skills

Experience within an SEO focused role. Within an Agency environment is a plus

Passion about the world of SEO with a keen interest in becoming an industry leading expert.

Able to work with minimal supervision while maintaining focus and productivity.

Experience working with some SEO tools e.g. STAT, Ahrefs, SEMrush, Screaming Frog, Yext (we don’t expect you to know them all!)

Working knowledge of MS Excel, Word & PowerPoint, and a desire to develop in these areas.

Good communication and interpersonal skills capable of maintaining strong relationships.

Natural curiosity to think outside of the box and problem-solving skills.

Ability to work in a team environment that promotes collaboration.

Ambitious and driven with passion for SEO and a keen eye for detail

Additional language skills are a plus

What we offer

This is a permanent role, based from our Manchester office, and as well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs which includes :

Competitive Salary

Company-provided Medical Healthcare

Generous Pension provisions

Health and Wellness benefits

Volunteering days

Life Assurance

Working in diverse teams where you can make a real impact.

Exciting and rewarding environment.

Varied work across industries

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.