The Telegraph hiring SEO Manager in London, England, United Kingdom
Job Description
You will work closely as part of the wider evergreen SEO team, managing the SEO content strategy, working closely with editorial staff on best practice guidelines, identifying optimisation opportunities and reporting on wider performance of some of our most valuable channels.
Key Responsibilities
- Project manage our evergreen content strategies, brief articles and create clear optimisation strategies
- Analysing content performance across core evergreen categories – notably Health and Money – to continually optimise performance
- Work closely with the editorial team, supporting with SEO advice, training sessions, options and optimisations and
- Work with the technical SEO team to create product improvements from a technical perspective
- Setup and manage monthly reports that can be easily digested by senior members of the team
- Help create, improve and maintain evergreen SEO guides and training materials for writers and more other members of the SEO team
- 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 events drive as much traffic as possible and the wider team is supported in relevant areas
Essential Skills
- Excellent project management skills
- 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
- A thorough understanding of Google, Google Discover and how SEO works
- An ability to build relationships across the business
- Experience using multiple industry-leading tools (GSC, Screaming Frog, ahrefs, SemRush etc)
BenefitsThe nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Training and development
With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.
Our commitment to inclusion
At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.
To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website