SEO Manager

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SEO Manager

Hull / Hybrid

£25000-£32000 per annum DOE + Flexible Working, *Every other Friday off and Excellent Benefits

Are you looking to optimise your SEO career and take the next step up your career rankings? Are you ready to be a changemaker in performance marketing? If so, Summit has an exciting opportunity for an SEO Manager join us on a full-time hybrid basis in Hull.

Here at Summit, we think differently! We inspire people to reach their full potential. We are passionate about helping our clients transform their business opportunity online by too thinking and acting differently. Join our awarding-winning Client Management team, working with some of the largest high street retailers and make an impact as our next SEO Manager.

About the Role

Are you looking to optimise your SEO career and take the next step up your career rankings? We're looking for an experienced SEO Manager who will create and lead our clients' SEO activity, developing and executing our strategy in line with client's objectives. You'll be tracking and reporting on performance according to relevant targets and KPIs along with investigating and troubleshooting where necessary. As the SEO Manager, you will help support across both technical and content initiatives and help to train more junior member of the team. Some of the ways you'll contribute to the team is by:

• Implementing content marketing activities to meet our client's performance goals
• Accountable for ensuring all work is completed on time and to a high standard
• Staying up to date with industry trends and SEO content best practice, identifying strategies that are applicable to our clients and leading the implementation of these
• Lead and support SEO technical strategies and implementations for clients' sites
• Responsible for performance, analysis of performance and understanding the 'why'
• Analysing issues/opportunities, whilst providing and implementing recommendations
• Leading regular client calls to discuss performance and actions
• Attending client meetings and take on an active role presenting, asking appropriate questions and contributing to discussions
• Supporting junior members of the team with training

Summiteers are asked to attend our office in the C4DI complex in Hull, Fruit Market 2 days per week, the rest of the week can be done from home. For the right candidate, we may also consider greater flexibility around office time.

About You

As our SEO Manager you will have strong communication skills and a minimum of 3+ years' experience managing organic marketing activity in either a client or agency environment, you will be required to manage and prioritise your own workload, with keen attention to detail and strong focus on objectives. You'll be self-motivated, willing to learn and improve with the ability to adapt to situations and work with teams effectively. Together with:

• A track record of analysing performance issues and opportunities, including implementation of recommendations
• Advanced working knowledge of MS Office, particularly Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Tracking and reporting experience with analytics packages such as GA
• Auditing our clients' and/or competitors' websites to determine areas of focus for optimisation or content creation
• Producing, editing, and publishing content on our client's websites. This includes ecommerce content, blog articles/editorial content or campaigns
• A problem solver who loves to investigate SEO issues and find answers
• Engaged in the SEO industry and actively exploring new changes, features and technology to help them be on the front foot
• Has a test and learn attitude to improving SEO performance

About us

Our culture is friendly, professional, entrepreneurial and focused around our people. At the heart of our business are our core values, which we regard as fundamental to our way of working. We believe in Passion, Honesty, Kindness, Teamwork and Learning while having fun!

A competitive salary up to £25000 -£32000 per annum is on offer plus excellent benefits that include:

• Flexible working: From flexible start and finish times, to having every other Friday off, we trust our people to work flexibly around their lifestyle and family arrangements.
• Study days: Up to four days every year for you to take time out of the day-to-day to work on personal development activities and hone your professional skills.
• Up to 29 days' holiday per year (plus bank holidays): Our employees start with 25 days' holiday per year, increasing to up to 29 days with long service. You would also have the opportunity to purchase additional holidays with our holiday purchase scheme.
• Milestone days off: Whether it's your birthday, you're getting married, or it's your child's first day at school, we want you to take the time off work to enjoy these special moments.
• Bupa health cash plan: We understand that everyday healthcare costs can quickly add up. We offer a cash plan through Bupa to claim back those costs such as a prescription or trip to the dentist.
• Bonus scheme: When Summit do well, we want our teams to reap the rewards so we have an annual bonus scheme based on company profits.
• Life assurance: Your family matters to us, in the event that something terrible happened, we want to make sure they are looked after.
• Religious holiday swaps: As some of our UK bank holidays are traditionally based around Christian events, we want to ensure we're being inclusive and letting people celebrate religious holidays that matter to them.

Additional keywords: SEO, Manager, content, client management, technical, performance marketing, digital marketing

We are an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their sex; religious or similar philosophical belief; race; age; sexual orientation; or disabilities.

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