Technical SEO Specialist

Location: London, ENG, GB, N1C 4AG; Stockport, ENG, GB, SK4 2JT; Corby, ENG, GB, NN17 5JF

Brand: RS

Function: Marketing

Work Location: Hybrid

12 month FTC

Locations: London, Corby or Manchester

As part of the RSSEO team, we are driving commercial performance and brand awareness through visibility on SERP (Search Engine Results Page) within 32 markets. Over the course of the last 18 months, RS has brought SEO activities in-house with the aim of embedding SEO across the organisation, delivering value and positioning the function in such a way to create a strategic advantage over our competitors. Working closely with cross-functional teams, this team will set clear SEO goals, optimisation directions, and collaboratively drive successful outcomes with stakeholders. Our increased SEO maturity will set a new industry standard for SEO operational excellence.

The successful candidate will be working in a wider SEO team of 16 SEO practitioners as well as a wider group of stakeholders across a multitude of functions including but not limited to Technology, Development, Product and UX. Over the next 12 months, the technical SEO function aims to play through significant platform changes to improve global technical SEO compliance as well as innovations in testing technology via third parties.

What you will be doing:

• Support the Senior SEO Specialist to implement automation/Machine Learning tools to generate high-value pages.
• Gather requirements to implement fully automated solutions in the new search engine.
• Collaborate on CMS migrations and communicate international SEO best practices.
• Provide detailed SEO requirements and work closely with Engineers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and the Content team to ensure effective implementation.
• Support the data hygiene/normalisation process to ensure valid keywords and landing pages are used without duplications.
• Analyse keyword data to create SEO requirements for keyword-driven product page URLs.

What do I need to be successful?

• Good experience in implementing Technical SEO projects.
• Skilled communicator with the ability to explain technical SEO stories to others.
• Highly organised with project management skills.
• Ability to use data analysis tools such as BrightEdge, Adobe Analytics, Screaming Frog, OnCrawl, DeepCrawl, Botify, etc.
• Stay up to date on SEO Best Practices and Search Engine Industry.

What’s in it for you?

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including an annual performance bonus, private healthcare, and generous holiday, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation.
• Support for neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post-diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome.
• Support for women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery.

We are RS Group. At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible. Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world. We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers. We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems. We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.