SEO Lead - London, United Kingdom - Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's
Verified Company
London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Location

  • Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd 33 Holborn, London, EC1N 2HT

Hours

  • Fulltime

Contract-Type

  • Permanent

Salary

  • Competitive Plus Benefits

Areas of business

  • Digital

Closing date

  • 2024/05/23 12:00:00

Job ID
We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury's. Our digital team is a big team that reaches millions of customers each week — with tangible results.

It's also a place where you could get to discover different parts of the business, as you'll have every chance to experience more than one.

The culture in Digital is one of failing fast and experimenting, so from trading through to merchandising and forecasting, you'll be part of a truly agile environment.


In a nutshell


At Sainsbury's we believe that the customer should be at the heart of everything we do which is why we have put digital at the centre of our vision of being there for their customers whenever, wherever and however they want and of serving more of our customers more of the time.

Within Digital we are one organisation, driving brilliant experiences across all our brands operating in agile teams and working seamlessly together to make the most of the exceptional knowledge, insight and talent that we have across the Division.

As SEO Lead, you will be the face of all things SEO relating to on your assigned brand/s. To lead relationships across our business, you will context switching between data analysis, optimisation, technical projects and providing guidance.

Engaging with our extensive toolkit and 3rd party partners you will ensure we understand SEO market dynamics, their impact on performance and proactively build plans to maximise on our opportunities and protect our rankings from risk.


In this role you will be the owner of our SEO narrative across your assigned brand/s and be a key part of driving changes in our thinking, performance, and digital behaviours.

This role is for an SEO generalist who can confidently draw on a breadth of SEO skills to manage conflicting priorities and a large number of stakeholders.


What you need to do

  • Own the performance narrative of SEO across the business and be the goto contact in your assigned brand/s. This includes helping the business to understand Search Engine and customer trends, as well as clarifying the support required to achieve our goals.
  • Develop and deliver a robust plan for SEO in your brands. This will align with the overall SEO strategy, and complement initiatives driven by the Technical and Optimisation elements of our team. You will need to confidently communicate this broader SEO strategy to stakeholders.
  • Use multiple 1st and 3rd party data sets to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities for our businesses. Updating plans and communicating as required.
  • Use crawl and log file data to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities for our businesses. Updating plans and communicating as required.
  • You will be accountable for achieving SEO targets, responding to selfidentified trends and challenges, reprioritising plans to maximise performance.
  • Continually monitor the SEO landscape using a variety of SEO tools to understand risks and opportunities, both for our domains and the market at large. You will generously share this knowledge, using it to educate the business and drive the best business outcomes.
  • Develop and deliver a continuous test and learn plan to ensure our best practices remain current, analysing and understanding the impact of these tests utilising our extensive toolset.
  • Be responsible for delivering consistent and thorough communication of key performance metrics and progress of initiatives to our internal stakeholders. You will proactively update priorities and plans as a result of this analysis.
  • Proactively collaborate with Digital colleagues to provide feedback, guidance and insight on key calendar events, Digital Content and any executions important to SEO performance.


Work closely and build relationships with third party agencies to ensure our search strategy is achieved, working together to ensure that the tools and technology used to measure and monitor performance are used to best effect.


  • Work closely with the broader Sainsbury's SEO team to share and evolve best practice. This will be informed by your observations, tests and market research.
  • Actively share knowledge with the wider Digital community including general advice, SEO best practices and support the ongoing SEO empowerment of Digital colleagues to achieve better digital execution.
  • Stay connected to the SEO industry for developments and changes to the strategics, tactics, technology, and solutions available in the market.
  • Champion and increase the awareness of our SEO channel and activities across wider stakeholder groups.

What you need to know and show

  • You will have solid SEO knowledge and exp
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