SEO Strategy Manager

What you’ll be doing:

Are you looking for an opportunity where you can utilise your SEO skills and push the boundaries of eCommerce marketing? 

Would you love to have an opportunity to implement your strategies and execute innovative, impactful SEO campaigns for lots of exciting brands? 

Did you answer YES? If so, you are in the right place…. 

Here at NOVOS we are looking for an upbeat and skilled SEO Strategy Manager to join our incredible ‘employee owned’ digital marketing agency based in the bustling city of London.

 

Can you deliver bespoke & innovative SEO strategies that drive performance?

As an SEO Strategy Manager we want you to push the boundaries of SEO for the clients we service. You will be responsible for forming and driving strategy for clients and ensuring we execute agreed deliverables that will drive results.

 

You will understand how to analyse client data and use this to influence innovative SEO strategies that fix priority issues and explore exciting opportunities. 

 

You will have a track record of delivering performance increases for clients across eCommerce, with a strong understanding of how to work with clients, build lasting relationships, and drive revenue increases for them.

As SEO Strategy Manager your main focus will be on client strategy and delivery and as such you are not expected to directly manage any team members. However, you will be expected to coach your colleagues and train them in how to build a successful strategy and deliver technical tickets, content briefs, and website analysis.

You will report to the Head of SEO. You will work alongside an SEO Team Manager who will line manage a team of Senior Strategists and Strategists.

Skills & experience preferred

Skills & experience required

If you have around 3 years of experience (or more!) in SEO, owning client strategy and deliverables and would love to join a fast-growing employee-led business, we are the right place for you!

Some things we would like to see from you…. 

• A history of clever, innovative SEO strategies that are unique to the clients you work on.
• An excellent grasp of how technical SEO, content strategy, and Digital PR/links work together as part of a strategy and a clear understanding of when to utilise which.
• Knowledge and understanding of ecommerce SEO, and experience working with ecommerce brands.
• A clear track history of achieving growth for your clients against pre-set KPIs.
• Experience in managing and executing migrations – demonstrating organisation, efficiency and project management.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships with clients by understanding their needs and delivering to agreed timelines.
• The confidence to assess client concerns/objections and know when to stick to a proposed strategy for the greater good, versus pivoting based on their feedback.
• Strong technical SEO skills and prioritisation, including but not limited to crawling and indexing, site architecture, internal linking, structured data, CWV & site speed, common JavaScipt issues etc.
• A clear understanding of search intent,  how customers search, where they search and why they purchase online – feeding into your ability to create unique and engaging content strategies.
• Good project management skills and an ability to produce high quality deliverables to known deadlines.
• An ability to make complex data sets simple to digest and understand.

Additional skills

• Knowledge of Content Management Systems a bonus (Shopify/Magento/WooCommerce/BigCommerce/Headless)
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS
• A commercial understanding of budgets & resourcing
• Have a clear proclivity for keeping up with industry related topics and news, such as key updates, changes and use cases that can be applied to your day-to-day role.
• An understanding of other digital channels such as PPC, Email, Social and how they can influence an SEO strategy.