Digital Marketing Assistant

Digital Marketing Assistant Location: Godalming, Surrey, GU8 6BQ – some homeworking possible Salary: £23,000 to £25,000 DOE, plus bonus and benefits Contract: Full time, permanent Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30 am to 5.30 pm – Some flexibility in hours possible Digital Marketing Assistant – The Role: Web Results Direct (WRD) is a full-service Digital Marketing Agency. We are looking for someone to join our SEO team as a digital marketing assistant, to learn, grow, and progress within the SEO team. We are a Google Partner Agency, established in 2001, with a loyal and growing client base of household names, SMBs and Enterprise sized clients. We are looking for a keen, creative, and enthusiastic person (with good attention to detail) to join our friendly and pro-active business. This is a full-time hybrid role, with a minimum of two days in the office each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, following your initial training period. Digital Marketing Assistant – Responsibilities: Looking to step up a level from your current role, you will be assisting members of our SEO account management and senior team to support and manage our clients, as well as eventually looking after a few of your own, with guidance and training provided as required. You will be using a variety of software tools and desk research to conduct site and keyword analysis, create reports, find out what competitors are up to, and then using all the information you have gathered to recommend and carry out content optimisation, alongside other key SEO tasks. You will develop good personal relationships with our internal departmental teams and our clients. You will need to understand their business and objectives and, alongside the account managers, apply changes, carry out research and help deliver projects, services and solutions in order to improve the client’s digital performance. Digital Marketing Assistant – Experience: You will ideally have experience in marketing, and/or a keen interest in learning digital marketing. Ideal candidates will preferably have an understanding of SEO, digital content, research, and some experience with Google Analytics. Familiarity with using a website’s Content Management System (CMS) would be an advantage, as would experience of using Pay per Click (PPC) advertising, however, these are not essential. You will be confident and outgoing, as occasional client interaction forms part of this role. Detail orientated, a questioning mind, and the ability to connect different tactics/strategies together to understand the bigger picture would also be desired. A good standard of maths and English is required, and you will be familiar with Microsoft Office products, particularly Outlook, Word and Excel. Advancing your Digital Skills The successful candidate will continue to develop their career and skill sets with us, including learning advanced technical SEO skills, UX, CRO, analytics, content optimisation, and much more. Role Progression Within our growing business, this role presents a fantastic opportunity to learn and develop, with progression to Account Executive, Account Manager and beyond for the right person in due course. You will be supported by our experienced SEO team of Account Managers, Senior Account Managers, and our SEO Account Director, and guidance will be provided to help you to further hone and develop your skills. Why work for us? We are an expanding business with a very friendly and close team based in a beautiful, dog-friendly, converted barn on a country estate near Godalming, Surrey. You will need to live within commuting distance of our offices near Godalming (ideally less than 40 minutes’ drive away), you will also need a full driving license and your own car as we are in a rural location. This is a full-time role; however, we are able to offer some flexibility when it comes to specific working hours if required. Following your training period/successful probation, the role would be hybrid, with homeworking available three days a week as required (office days are Tuesdays and Thursdays). Benefits: • 25 days paid holiday a year plus Bank Holidays and extra time off over Christmas, and a day off on your birthday, • Ongoing in-house team, and individual training, • Industry events, • Regular staff social events and evenings, with the company covering all the costs, • Internal half-day nomination scheme, • Your salary will be regularly reviewed and your successful contribution to growing the business will be suitably rewarded via our profit-related bonus scheme, • BUPA healthcare plan, • Workplace pension scheme, • Free parking. If you feel like you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role then apply today! Strictly no agencies