SEO Manager

London, UK (Hybrid)

£40K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Summary

Own and lead the SEO strategy and roadmap for Tes products, driving technical and content improvements while evangelising SEO across the business and aligning with Web, Product, Tech and Marketing teams to deliver measurable growth.

  • Own and implement an end-to-end SEO strategy and roadmap across multiple products.
  • Coordinate technical audits, performance analysis and cross-functional buy-in to improve visibility and AI-powered discovery.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop the SEO strategy and roadmap for a number of Tes products.
  • Ensure implementation of SEO best practices across Marketing output.
  • Work closely with Web teams to ensure new web pages follow SEO best practices.
  • Evangelising SEO across the business to help secure stakeholder buy-in and drive the strategy forwards.
  • SEO consultation to Technology and Product teams to ensure SEO is incorporated at grass-roots level and technical SEO improvements are correctly implemented.
  • Deep dive technical SEO auditing and troubleshooting to improve visibility in search engines and AI chatbots.
  • Do monthly SEO reporting analysing and presenting outcomes and trends to relevant stakeholders.
  • Make recommendations to support improved SEO results in line with wider business objectives.
  • Work closely with PPC colleagues to maintain a joined-up traffic acquisition strategy.
  • Utilising an array of tools including Ahrefs, Conductor, Data Studio, Google Analytics, Search Console, and HubSpot to gain competitive insights, monitor trends and inform strategy.

Requirements

  • Proven experience developing and implementing successful SEO strategies for large-scale websites or complex digital ecosystems.
  • Strong technical SEO knowledge, including site architecture, crawling, indexing, Core Web Vitals, structured data and international SEO.
  • Experience conducting technical audits and translating findings into prioritised business recommendations.
  • Strong understanding of content strategy, keyword research, search intent and organic growth principles.
  • Experience using enterprise SEO and analytics platforms such as Conductor Website Monitoring, Conductor Intelligence, Ahrefs, Google Analytics and Google Search Console.
  • Knowledge of emerging AI-powered search experiences, including Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) best practices.
  • Ability to analyse data, identify trends and communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience influencing and collaborating across Product, Technology, Marketing and Leadership teams.
  • Strong project management and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
  • Commercially minded with a focus on delivering measurable business outcomes

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave rising to 30
  • 5% pension after probation
  • State of the art offices
  • Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
  • Free eye care cover
  • Life Assurance
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • EAP (Employee assistance programme)
  • Quarterly Tes Socials
  • Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu
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Tes

Tes is a global education company committed to supporting teachers and schools worldwide.We provide products and services that inspire, support and connect teachers and schools to help them achieve and deliver great outcomes for their pupils. We have over 100 years of experience in education and a thriving active community of school teachers and leaders visiting our site over two million times a month.We help schools Attract, Train and Empower their staff with specialist recruitment, retention, qualification, CPD and classroom management software. We help teachers prepare their lessons by hosting a vibrant resources sharing platform of quality lessons plans generated by teachers who want to share their resources.And we help teachers find their next teaching job in the UK and around the world as well as providing useful career boosting help and advice with the latest analysis of teaching in Tes MagazineFor more information, visit www.tes.com

Founded in 1910
Sheffield, England, GBR
2.5K employees (185 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

£40K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
140 (6% of company)
Median Tenure
2.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
61.6%
Direct
31.9%
Referral
5.1%
Social
0.8%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.5K
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SEO Manager

Tes · London, UK · Hybrid