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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 a Technical SEO Manager as part of our team in in either Manchester, London or Stafford working on a hybrid basis.
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.
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
Supporting the SEO account teams, building the 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
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
Working with directors to help with pitches and new business
SEO is a fast-moving industry, and sometimes 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 pre-requisite 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.
Excellent communication and presentation skills – both verbal and written
Able to confidently explain various aspects of Technical SEO to both internal teams and with clients
Owns 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
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)
JavaScript SEO (Common pitfalls)
Core Web Vitals / Site Speed Optimisation
Popular CMS for E-Commerce
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
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
Unparalleled professional development
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
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.
Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity. As part of Dentsu Group Inc. we are headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and our 65,000 employee-base of dedicated professionals work across four regions (Japan, Americas, EMEA and APAC). Dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion sits at the heart of our Social Impact strategy – our fully integrated sustainability strategy which includes our ambition to build a fair and more equal society, where everyone is equipped to thrive.