Senior SEO Consultant

Responsibilities

• Line manage 1–3 SEO team members, owning their performance, development plans and progression cases.
• Conduct bi-weekly 1:1s, provide ongoing feedback, coaching and support.
• QA deliverables from your pod, ensuring high standards and supporting consultants to reduce QA needs through strong execution.
• Identify training needs within your pod and escalate department-level training opportunities to the Associate Director.
• Create an environment where your team feels supported, motivated and aligned to departmental and client goals.
• Own the SEO roadmap and delivery for complex, high-prestige or strategically important accounts.
• Drive performance outcomes and hold accountability for retention, growth and client satisfaction across your pod’s portfolio.
• Lead conversations with senior client stakeholders, providing clarity, direction and commercial insight.
• Translate complex technical challenges into actionable business-oriented recommendations that secure implementation.
• Champion an experimentation-minded approach, using data and insight to inform strategy and prioritisation.
• Lead the execution of the product vision across your pod, coaching team members on delivering Expertise, Insight, and Value.
• Identify product delivery gaps within your pod’s accounts and work with your Associate Director to strengthen execution.
• Support development and refinement of internal tools, frameworks and delivery processes.
• Lead innovation initiatives within SEO, proposing improvements to process, product, tools or ways of working.
• Represent SEO in cross-department projects, ensuring alignment between channels and integration of SEO requirements.
• Drive operational improvements by identifying inefficiencies and helping embed new workflows.
• Lead the technical SEO workstream in selected new business pitches, including forecasting, strategic framing and technical scoping.
• Proactively identify marketing opportunities, thought leadership topics and external-facing SEO content.
• Contribute to the SEO marketing roadmap with ideas, assets or specialist expertise.
• To progress beyond Senior SEO Consultant, you will have: (see progression path below)

Requirements

• Demonstrated the ability to lead a high-performing pod with strong retention and performance outcomes.
• Shown sustained innovation and improved product execution across your portfolio.
• Demonstrated excellence in cross-department collaboration and strategic leadership.
• Begun influencing wider departmental direction through process development, training initiatives and marketing contribution.

Benefits

• Our people make us who we are, so to make sure we attract and retain the best and brightest in the industry, we offer an attractive benefits package.
• But not only that, we are the UK’s first carbon neutral agency (a status we have held since 2018), with a serious commitment to monitoring and reducing the impact our work has on the planet across three core sustainability pillars of Greenhouse Gases, Waste & Recycling and Sustainable Consumption.
• Then there’s a whole host of benefits – from discounted gym memberships and free eye tests to an employee pension scheme and enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption package.
• Dynamic working: To keep that work-life harmony in check, we're flexible on where and when you work
• Private medical insurance: To keep you fighting fit and give you and your family peace of mind.
• Income protection: We know it feels good to be covered, just in case.
• Calm Subscription: Now more than ever, it’s important to mind your mind!
• 25 days annual leave: This increases to 27 days after three years with us, and then increases every subsequent year up to a max. of 30 days
• Christmas closure: No need to save holiday days for the Christmas closure period. It’s on us!
• Birthdays off: One extra day to celebrate your big day
• Summer hours: Between June and Aug we finish at 15.00 every Friday.
• Online coaching and mental health support: Unlimited via OpenUp
• Remote Working: Work abroad for up to one month a year.
• Performance & Salary: Reviewed twice a year for everyone.