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Senior SEO Manager | THG Ingenuity

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Job Category

Marketing

Division

Ingenuity Commerce

Location

UK, Manchester

Job Type

Full-time

About THG 

We’re a fast-moving, global technology group that specialises in taking brands direct to consumers. We’re home to a portfolio of leading brands and sites including Myprotein, ESPA, LOOKFANTASTIC, and Cult Beauty, all of which are powered by our fully integrated digital commerce ecosystem, THG Ingenuity.  

We handle everything in-house, including technology, content creation, e-commerce, marketing, manufacturing, new product development, and logistics. This comprehensive approach ensures we can fully realise our vision and maintain our leadership in a rapidly evolving global industry.

Why THG?  

THG is a dynamic, fast-moving, global technology company specializing in enabling brands to directly reach consumers. Leveraging our cutting-edge proprietary technology and infrastructure, we support a diverse range of beauty, nutrition, and lifestyle brands, and now helping drive exponential growth of our clients’ brands globally.    

We’re always looking for individuals who can bring new and innovative perspectives to THG and contribute to propelling the group forward on its exciting path. If you're prepared to advance your career, embrace daily challenges, and adapt to a changing world, THG welcomes you to join us in this journey.  

 

Life at THG Ingenuity 

THG Ingenuity solves global and local challenges for its partners, including, Nestle, P&G, L’Oreal by delivering a seamless, effective and scalable direct-to-consumer retail model by incorporating all the required components for global digital commerce into a single, digital platform. This enables THG to offer brands access to every product and service required to launch and scale a global e-commerce solution through a single SaaS relationship, which eradicates the complexity and cost of multi-partner relationships. Built to empower both brands and customers alike, the Ingenuity ecosystem takes all the pieces needed for successful e-commerce propositions, and places them under one roof. Encompassing everything from SEO, PPC, Content, Affiliates, Paid Social, Social Media, CRM to, Client Marketing.

 

About the role  

THG are hiring a Snr SEO Manager to help drive growth for several THG brands. Working with SEO Director as well as several key stakeholders to improve performance across several THG owned brands, that will lead to increased growth for the channel. The Snr SEO Manager will be a key owner in developing and implementing a scalable strategy to significantly improve business KPIs by coordinating SEO efforts, content production, technical audits and oversee product optimizations for SEO. 

The ideal candidate is an action and results driven marketer who looks for constant improvement. You enjoy working across multiple teams (SEM, Product, CRO), building effective relationships and are comfortable managing multiple stakeholders. 

 

What will I be doing?  

  • Assist the development and implementation of the SEO strategy for THG sites. 
  • Ownership of the organic performance targets for several our beauty websites and the delivery against them  
  • Work with the SEO Director to develop SEO best practice for the beauty sites, lead discussions with internal stakeholders, ensure progress and performance is reported regularly 
  • Setting in place best SEO working practice that other members of the team can use and learn from to develop in their own roles 
  • Work with the other SEO teams in THG to identify and contribute to areas of best practice and innovation  
  • Support the Head of SEO with the training and development of colleagues in other countries and other markets 
  • Stay up to date with the latest SEO industry and news, share knowledge with the SEO team and be a leader within the team 
  • Using your experience, utilise all available data to seek out gaps and new opportunities and formulate this into an executable strategy 

 

What skills do I need? 

  • An SEO professional with at least 5 years’ experience (agency or in-house) 
  • Analytically minded, experience using Google Analytics and Google Search Console  
  • Have strong analytical skills for robust data driven decision making. Natural affinity for numbers, and analytics. 
  • Experience auditing on-site and off-site SEO factors to create effective SEO strategies  
  • Experience using SEO tools including or equivalent to ahrefs, Deepcrawl, SEMRush, Screaming Frog  
  • Experience managing a team, their workflow and assisting in their own professional development  
  • Solid technical acumen, displaying familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript 
  • Experience integrating SEO with other digital channels i.e. Social and PR (bonus) 
  • Ability to define structured plans, clear communication and foster collaboration to ensure timely delivery of work within an ambiguous, fast paced environment.  

 

We understand not all these skills can always be reflected but we still encourage candidates to apply.

 

 

ICON campus 

Icon is where it all happens. 

ICON is home to our head office and our world-class creative hub, offering the finest space for collaboration and innovation to thrive.  

Our campus-style office offers you everything you’ll need all in one place. Keep up with your health with our free on-site gym, GP and physio, whilst keeping your energy up with food/drink served daily from our canteen and cafes.  

 

 

What do we offer you? 

Compensation perks and benefits: 

  • Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay 
  • Annual charity day allowance 
  • Up to 50% discounts on wellbeing products from THG
  • 25 days annual leave + day off for your birthday
  • Free onsite gym 
  • Free onsite GP and physio
  • Tech saving scheme
  • Free parking

You can find our more information about Life at THG in our EVP document here: https://indd.adobe.com/view/d30f52b6-1e74-4d07-9097-023a805954b6  

 

Equal opportunities/commitment to diversity and inclusion 

THG is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.  

Please reach out to us if you require any accommodation during the application process without needing to disclose your disability or condition—simply specify your needs. If you're unsure about what accommodations to request, we can assist you in exploring the available options.  

 

 

 

 

THG is proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.

THG is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it sometimes takes us time to review and consider them all. We endeavour to respond to every application we receive within 14 days. If you haven't heard from us within that time frame or should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions at THG please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.

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