SEO Manager
Your chance to work for an award winning digital marketing agency.
SEO Manager
Are you a well-rounded and experienced SEO Manager looking for a role where you can build your own department and team? If this is you, we’d love to hear from you.
We are looking for a commercially minded, ambitious SEO Manager to join us and successfully manage a wide range of SEO campaigns.
Location: Remote, UK based – You must be based in the UK.
Salary: £33,000 – £40,000 depending on experience.
About Us
Koozai is an experienced, growth-focused digital marketing agency that’s trusted by hundreds of SMEs and large enterprises. We’ve been smashing our clients’ digital marketing KPIs since the early days of mainstream broadband. We offer full-service, award-winning digital marketing, with a focus on SEO, Digital PR, Content Marketing, Paid Search, Paid Social, and WordPress Website Design & Development.
We understand that each organisation has different goals, competitors and challenges – so our approach to our clients’ digital marketing will always be personalised. We start by listening to what they want from their marketing, and then we’ll match their needs to the digital specialists in our team who are best suited to delivering those.
We may have a wide breadth of specialist digital expertise, however, as a company, we’re still small enough to appreciate every client and take a fully tailored approach. The team are all home workers as we offer a fully remote-working model and have done for almost a decade. Koozai is a privately owned, boutique, digital marketing agency that’s a really lovely place to work. Each member of the team is valued and trusted and support one another to achieve the best for our clients, each other and the agency.
The Role
This is a role best suited to someone passionate and ambitious with a high level of analytics and SEO experience. We’re looking for someone with excellent SEO ability but who is also excited to help achieve the department and agency growth plans. To begin with you’ll be working alongside other channel experts and will be solely responsible for developing, executing, and implementing the SEO strategies and campaigns for our clients. Alongside this you will also be expected to work with the MD to develop a strategy to grow the SEO department and bring in new business.
This is an opportunity for someone who is self-driven and wants to create their own department and team. We are looking for an experienced SEO Manager who has a proven track record of running SEO campaigns [ideally agency side] and who can clearly explain to the client the impact of the results and how they support the broader business goals.
As an SEO Manager, you will strive to understand your clients’ business and any challenges that they face and, based on this understanding, you will think of new ways to help them drive their business forwards. You will be expected to manage and implement SEO projects that exceed client expectations and deliver amazing results.
You will have the drive and inclination to remain at the forefront of digital marketing, ensuring best practice marketing techniques are at the heart of everything you do. We want every client to receive the best possible results that match their individual goals and objectives. This is a fantastic opportunity for the right person to take their career to the next level in a pleasant and genuinely caring digital marketing agency.
Duties and Responsibilities
As an SEO Manager, you will be involved in all aspects of our offering at Koozai. Your duties will include the following:
- Creation and ownership of overall SEO strategy for a client’s websites and digital properties
- Acting as the main point of SEO contact for your clients, whilst being hands on with strategising campaigns to reach clients goals, and implementing technical SEO as needed
- Implementation of the SEO strategy; working with a clear and defined set of KPIs for each project
- Delivery of projects including technical SEO, site audits, keyword research, competitor analysis, backlink analysis and more
- Ongoing monthly optimisation of SEO campaigns
- Ensuring clients are kept up to date on changes and progress within their campaign and how the work is impacting their business goals, whilst dealing with any queries that arise
- Bespoke client reporting. Reporting on the work and results, showcasing a strong knowledge of client objectives and how campaign results are linked to their business goals
- Monitoring and understanding client markets and environments, whilst remaining up to date with latest trends and updates in the industry as a whole
- Identifying opportunities to improve performance in organic search results and clearly communicating these to the client
- Growing the SEO department, maintaining our excellent levels of retention, networking and promoting the agency and our credentials to bring in new business to the channel.
- Ensuring individual KPIs are met each month to aid career progression
- Supporting the MD and other team members in new business pitches and identification of upsell and growth opportunities
- Development of the SEO department client roster as well as recruitment of additionally required resources, training and on-going support
- Following the processes and procedures of the agency
Required Skills
The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate the following:
- Minimum of 5 years SEO experience, ideally gained from working for a professional digital marketing agency. At least 1 year in a management position.
- Strong analytical capabilities and proven experience of providing clients with comprehensive SEO consultation and execution services
- Expert knowledge of SEO strategies and best practices including technical, on page and off page
- Excellent attention to detail and a high level of organisation and diligence
- Forward thinking and results driven, with a strong sense of ownership and eagerness to learn
- Excellent working knowledge of industry-leading tools such as Looker Studio, SEMrush, Google Tag Manager (GTM), GA4, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, Accuranker and more
- Experience with CMS systems such as WordPress and Shopify
- Working knowledge of HTML and CSS
- Experience with B2B and ecommerce brands
- Client-facing experience and strong presentation skills, excellent reporting skills with a proactive approach
- Commercial awareness to drive businesses forwards
- A willingness to learn, research and use initiative
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and deliver results
- Excellent time management skills
- Outstanding organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to prioritise
- Work as a team player whilst being able to work on set individual performance goals and KPIs
- Excellent written and verbal communication and literacy skills
- Perfect command of the English language
An Amazing Range of Benefits
So, now we’ve got what we need from you out of the way, we can tell you what you get just for working at Koozai.
Every Day’s a School Day:
We’ll champion you not only to excel at your job but also to develop a tonne of skills along the way. That’s why you’ll get dedicated time for personal development, and we provide tickets to world-class industry conferences such as BrightonSEO to help you keep your knowledge fresh.
Perk Life Balance:
Access to a wide range of deals and discounts from the biggest brands, allowing you to shop and save all year round on things that matter to you. This includes offers on:
- Food and drink, from takeaways to supermarket discounts to wine offers
- Tech and electronics such as mobile phones and computers
- Home and garden, from DIY to home appliances
- Health and beauty such as gym memberships and personal care
- Entertainment, from cinema tickets to books and events
Your Work, Your Way:
We offer fully remote working to all our employees so you can make the most of your personal life without having to travel to and from an office. We do host meet ups at our HQ in Lee-on-the-Solent so we all get to see each other once in a while to catch up. Our working hours are flexible so if you’ve got somewhere else to be before or after work, you just want a lie-in or fancy an earlier finish, you need to simply adjust your hours to suit. We also provide company laptops, additional monitors, and anything else you need to be comfortable working from home.
It’s Your Birthday – Have a Day Off:
We love to celebrate each and every one of the Koozai family’s birthdays. That’s why, as well as your basic holiday allowance, which is 28 days a year [plus an extra day for each year you’re with the agency] you’ll also get your birthday off.
You’ll Be Well Looked After:
At Koozai we offer our employees a competitive salary, pension, free eye tests and glasses allowance. As a company in general, we pride ourselves on having an approachable and friendly team that supports and elevates one another.
Become An Industry Voice:
We’re keen for each employee to develop their name within the industry; we’ll provide you with time to write for the Koozai blog and if you want to speak at an industry event, we’ll support you to do just that.
In truth, the main benefit you’ll get is working within a fun-loving company brimming with intelligent and innovative digital marketers.
What Next
If you’re interested in the above, send us an email to info@koozai.com along with your CV. We look forward to welcoming you to our Koozai family.
We look forward to hearing from you.
UK-based applicants only.
No recruitment agencies please.
We create cutting edge, award-winning digital marketing campaigns
Questions?
Call us on 0330 353 0300, email info@koozai.com or fill out our Contact Form.
