SEO Manager
Exeter, Devon (flexi-remote)

The Company

Bigwave Marketing is a fun and growing creative business growth agency with offices in Exeter, Plymouth and Torquay. Driven by our commitment to excellence, we provide a complete range of marketing, design, digital and business growth services.

Our SEO department prides itself on the in-house expertise, the holistic approach it offers to any project, engagement with the client, transparency and risk-free SEO strategies that work.

We are now looking for an SEO Manager to join our passionate team on a full time, permanent basis working 37.5 hours per week.

The Benefits

- Salary of up to £23,000 per annum DOE
- Great development opportunities
- Yearly SEO & Tech Conferences (Brighton SEO is a regular one)
- 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Pension scheme
- Flexitime and remote work policy
- Company laptop and equipment
- Vibrant offices based in a convenient city centre location (when office based!)
- Agency shutdown at Christmas

In this important role, you will have the chance to make your mark on a growing department. Reporting to the Search Director, you will take ownership of several client strategies and help deliver and develop successful SEO strategies that will have a positive impact on increasing SERP visibility and website ROI.

The Role

As an SEO Manager, you will help to deliver excellent results for our customer’s SEO campaigns.

Reporting to the Search Director, you will be expected to:

- Have a working knowledge of CMS systems like WordPress or Joomla
- Understand on-page optimisations and ranking factors as well as good copywriting skills to be able to implement changes and tune or craft appropriate content
- Have a good knowledge of the Google Marketing suite, in particular GA and GTM
- Carry out competitor and keyword research
- Deliver off-page optimisation campaigns on occasion
- Have a good knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint

And:

- Manage unique SEO strategies for a range of customers targeting both local and national audiences
- Carry out SEO audits for key customers and prospects and deliver technical documentation for on-site recommendations
- Use Google Analytics and other analytical programs to deliver key monthly performance reports

About You

To be considered as an SEO Manager, you will need:

- Proven SEO experience and a track record of improving SERP results
- To be highly organised and self-motivated
- Excellent communication skills
- Analytical thinking
- Up to date knowledge on all things SEO
- The drive to go the extra mile to achieve excellent results and take pride in your work
- Experience of using at least one SEO tool (or equivalent), I.e.: SEMrush, MOZ, RankRanger, SEOprofiler, Ahrefs, MajesticSEO, LinkResearchTool, SEO Powersuite, Screaming Frog, DeepCrawl, Agency Analytics, RavenTools, etc.
- Experience with project management and time-tracking software

Knowledge of HTML or a programming language as well as a working knowledge of web server technologies would be beneficial (although not essential)

Agency experience or examples of previous work will provide a significant advantage to candidates for this role.

Other companies may call this role SEO Executive, Marketing Executive, Digital Marketing Executive, SEO Campaign Executive, Digital Campaign Co-ordinator, SEO Campaign Co-ordinator or SEO Assistant.

Webrecruit and Bigwave Marketing are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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