Senior SEO Manager, The Telegraph
3-5 days a week in office
Multi-media news publisher
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Multi-media news publisher
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide content that inspires people to have the perspective they want to progress in life.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for an enthusiastic self-starter who understands the important role search engines and publishers play in the user journey of online shoppers
- Excellent project management skills
- A thorough understanding of Google, Google Discover and how SEO works
- Experience managing SEO content projects from cradle to grave
- An analytical and data-driven approach to surfacing content opportunities, trending topics, delivering actionable insights and identifying opportunities
- An ability to build relationships across the business
- Experience delivering strategic presentations to senior stakeholders
- Experience using multiple industry-leading tools (GSC, Screaming Frog, ahrefs, SemRush etc)
- Numerate and fluent in aggregating and analysing core campaign performance metrics
- Experience with Affiliate marketing
- Experience in editorial or newsroom environments (desirable)
- Adobe Analytics, Pi-data metrics and/or Lumar (desirable)
- Good understanding of technical SEO (desirable)
- Line management experience (desirable)
What the job involves
- The Telegraph is looking for a talented and enthusiastic SEO to join its Audience team to lead on key organic growth strategies for our commerce team
- Reporting into the Head of Evergreen SEO, you will work closely as part of the wider SEO team, managing the long-life content strategy of several commercial teams, working closely with writers and sub-editors on best practice guidelines, identifying optimisation opportunities and reporting on wider performance of some of our most valuable channels
- Project manage our evergreen content strategies: planning, briefing and optimising content for a number of verticals
- Manage and improve a small team of SEOs, actively seeking to improve their skills to achieve personal and business objectives
- Analysing content performance across core evergreen commercial categories including Recommended – to continually optimise performance
- Setup and manage monthly reports that can be easily digested by senior members of the team
- Work closely with writing teams, supporting with SEO advice, training sessions, options and optimisations
- Work with the technical SEO team to create product improvements from a technical perspective
- Work to commercial & revenue-based KPIs, understanding the impact of decisions made at the top of the funnel
- Keeping up to date with the world of SEO (and news SEO in particular), attending events and staying ahead of the search engine ecosystem
- Event-planning, performing keyword research and working with the news SEO team to ensure commercial events drive as much traffic as possible and the wider team is supported in relevant areas
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Telegraph was the first newspaper to report on a number of notable news scoops, including the outbreak of World War II and the 2009 MP expenses scandal. Now, the Telegraph Media Group has grown into a multimedia news brand, providing subscribers with access to journalism across The Telegraph website and app, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph newspapers.
The brand hit a £33.3m operating profit in 2021, indicating the group has managed overcome the difficulties print media has struggled with since the turn of the millennium. Adapting to digital distribution has earned it over 100 million individual readers a month globally, though the Daily Telegraph remains Britain's best-selling print broadsheet.
People's increased curiosity in current affairs has been the driving force behind The Telegraphs phenomenal growth and the company continues to invest in top-notch journalism.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Holiday
- Pension
- Life assurance
- Medical cover
- Parental leave (six months fully paid)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Emergency child and dependent care
- Employee assistance program
- Gym flex
- Fruit in the office
- On-site massage
- On-Site gym
- On-site GP
- Trained mental health first-aiders
Company values
- Fearless - We’re fiercely ambitious; we set the agenda and lead by example. Respect for our readers and pride in our reputation means we never compromise on the truth. We share brave and insightful opinions, and are not afraid to ruffle feathers.
- Together - We’re generous with our support and trust. We’re open and unselfish with our knowledge. We work with self-awareness and a sense of humour.
- Informed - We’re smart, well-informed and up-to-date. We make intelligent predictions, bold plans and rational decisions. We take full ownership of our work and our results.
- Open-minded - We’re creative and pioneering, and not afraid to take risks in pursuit of innovation. We develop our thinking through meaningful, stimulating and honest debate. We embrace diverse perspectives, backgrounds and viewpoints.
Company HQ
Victoria, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Nick Hugh
(CEO, not founder)Previously Head of Business Development at 24/7 Media for 9 months, Cost Transformation Programme Director at British Telecom for 3 years, Director of Publisher Services at Phorm UK for 1 year, and Vice President - EMEA at Yahoo for 2 years.
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