Technical SEO Specialist

UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive the technical SEO roadmap across ecommerce sites, translate audits into prioritized development tickets, and ensure SEO safety in releases.

  • Own structured data and AI accessibility for AI crawlers
  • Provide forecasts and commentary for SEO reporting

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Owning the technical SEO roadmap across our websites, prioritised by incremental organic traffic and revenue opportunity.
  • Running technical audits and turning findings into clear, commercially prioritised development tickets.
  • Managing crawling, indexation, sitemaps, robots.txt, canonicals, redirects and site migrations.
  • Partnering with Development so every release is SEO-safe: briefing requirements, testing in staging and checking after go-live.
  • Owning structured data and AI accessibility so our content is readable by AI crawlers.
  • Setting up alerts and resolving technical issues quickly to protect organic performance.
  • Jointly managing local SEO, including Google Business Profile and Apple Business Connect via Yext.
  • Providing technical forecasts, effort sizing and commentary for SEO reporting and business cases.

Requirements

  • 2-3+ years' hands-on technical SEO experience, ideally on a large ecommerce or retail site, or in an agency environment.
  • Strong knowledge of crawling, indexation, JavaScript rendering, redirects, migrations and structured data.
  • Hands-on experience with Lumar, or similar, plus Google Search Console and GA4.
  • Experience working in agile sprints and writing dev tickets with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Able to prioritise by commercial impact and explain technical issues clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Comfortable with log file analysis, AI crawler and AI search optimisation, Core Web Vitals, SEO testing

Preferred

  • Yext or SEMrush experience desirable

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Supportive and inclusive working environment
  • Opportunities for professional development, training and career progression
  • Access to industry-leading technology and development programmes
  • Life Assurance and pension contributions
  • Flexible and collaborative working arrangements where applicable
  • Additional company-wide benefits and employee perks
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Bensons for Beds

3.6 Glassdoor

No one size fits all when it comes to finding the perfect sleep experience for customers and that’s why at Bensons for Beds we put Sleep WellnessTM at the heart of everything we do. With nearly 70 years of retail and 100 years of manufacturing experience in sourcing the best quality beds, frames and mattresses, at Bensons we understand how to design the perfect, tailored sleep experience. We have 190+ locations and employ c 1800 colleagues. Under new ownership of Alteri Investors we have an ambitious 3 year plan to grow the business further and achieve our mission of becoming the market leading bed retailer with a strong omnichannel presence.Our business is made up of 4 main areas. Our retail stores provide nationwide coverage, our very own manufacturing site in Cambridgeshire make our quality products, and our Logistics team who store and deliver those products right to our customers’ homes. These operational business areas are all supported by our team of professionals and specialists across a wide range of support functions, ensuring our business is in great shape to serve our customers.Sleep is an essential part of everyone’s day, which is why every customer visiting a Bensons store is offered a complimentary sleepPROTM assessment, allowing them to choose a comfort level that is right for them. Mattresses are rated one to five in terms of firmness, with five being the most firm. sleepPRO’s unique technology helps to match customers with their ideal mattress, so they get a perfect night’s sleep, every night.What’s more, Bensons has a highly skilled buying team that try, test and source the very best beds, mattresses, headboards, pillows, accessories and bedroom furniture for its customers. Our collection of products includes brands such as Slumberland, Sensaform, iGel, Staples, Silentnight and Sealy.We are also fully committed to our sustainability journey, being kinder to the environment with every new product from product materials to production.

Founded in 1950
Accrington, England, GBR
989 employees (23 in marketing)
65% recommend to a friend
82% CEO approval

Salaries

SEO median pay in the United Kingdom

£40K/yr

Most pay falls between £34K and £48K. Based on 245 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
23 (2% of company)
Median Tenure
2.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2022
    Private Equity

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
920.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$7.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
66.4%
Direct
26.3%
Referral
4.6%
Social
1.4%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~991
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Technical SEO Specialist

Bensons for Beds · UK · On-site