Search Engine Optimization Team Lead

JR United Kingdom; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital marketing business, currently in hyper-growth within the entertainment sector, seeks a dynamic SEO Team Lead. This role involves managing a team to implement comprehensive SEO strategies, driving organic traffic enhancements, and ensuring optimal site performance. The position offers hybrid working and opportunities for advancement within this fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Private health cover

Discounted products and services

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in SEO management roles.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Proven experience in managing large scale SEO programs.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead the SEO team, monitoring performance.
• Implement and oversee SEO activities for client success.
• Ensure websites are audited with recommendations for improvement.

Skills

Leadership

SEO Strategy

Analytics

Tools

Google Analytics

Search Console

Job description

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Client:

Humankind Global Recruitment

Location:

bolton, greater manchester, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Views:

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Posted:

26.06.2025

Expiry Date:

10.08.2025

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Job Description:

Full Time

Manchester (Hybrid)

Are you an experienced SEO Team Leader, who loves managing but also enjoys staying hands on with on and off page SEO strategy?

If you're a technically minded search marketer / SEO who enjoys the challenge of ranking sites and pages within highly competitive sectors, including entertainments and crypto, this opportunity could be just for you. You'll be working across multiple client brands, managing a team of SEO Specialists, and ensuring all work is geared towards client success.

The Job...

Reporting into the SEO Director and working closely with them and 2 other SEO Team Leads, you'll manage a team of 4 people and will be in charge of implementing and overseeing SEO activities to enable their clients to meet customer acquisition targets. You'll work with the SEO Director to define best practices, and monitor adherence to ensure their client's sites are properly optimised for search engine success.

You’ll work with multiple client challenges to deliver the SEO initiatives, drive innovative ideas, and define areas of opportunity for customer acquisition optimisation, while partnering with internal business verticals and external partners.

You'll be responsible for:

- Effectively managing and leading the SEO team, including monitoring, supporting and evaluating performance across the team.

- Ensuring their client’s websites are constantly audited and provided with recommendations for improvements with both technical and non-technical opportunities to grow organic traffic.

- Leading the roadmap for SEO projects, ensuring you cover all aspects: performance, crawlability, on and off page requirements and keyword planning and targeting.

- Working closely with the marketing leaders to ensure content is SEO-optimised including planning, structuring and posting, with a view to delivering maximum page ranking optimisation and traffic delivery.

- Coordinating cross-functional input, deliverables, timelines, and communicating properly documented progress and issues relating to marketing programs.

About You...

You'll be a high performing SEO leader who will thrive in an environment where priorities can shift quickly and will enjoy the challenge of protecting and growing brand visibility in complex market conditions.

Here's some of the key experience you'll need to demonstrate:

- 5+ years of experience in SEO, with significant experience in SEO management roles.

- Strong leadership and people management skills.

- The ability to influence unpopular decisions while maintaining strong working relationships. You must be able to interact effectively across functions and cultures.

- Proven experience in managing large scale SEO programs including link building and the technical management of large, high traffic volume sites.

- Experience owning and driving SEO strategies, with demonstrated experience in both On and Off-site SEO and their day-to-day management.

- Demonstrable experience in analytics and reporting including GA, search console, and industry standard SEO tools.

- Exceptional analytical skills and the ability to report on performance against targets in a clear and understandable manner.

- The ability to build deep client and industry knowledge and be able to understand the consequences for SEO when either of these change.

- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to change direction quickly when required by client or project needs.

The Company...

This is a digital marketing business enjoying hyper-growth at the moment. They are experts within the entertainment arenas. For a successful SEO Team Leader, you'll have the chance to work within teams and on the types of search marketing projects you won't be able to anywhere else.

They also have a track record of promoting from within, so as more brands come online, more opportunities for promotion prospects will naturally appear.

In addition to an attractive salary DOE, the company also provides flexible hybrid/remote working, along with exciting future prospects.

Some additional benefits include;

- Private health cover

- Various discounted products and services

We're interviewing and shortlisting for this role right now, and expecting to get suitable candidates in for interview quickly. If you're interested, please apply with your up-to-date CV today.