SEO Specialist

3 days ago


Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom Arco Full time

**About The Role**:
Are you a specialist SEO professional with strong experience driving organic traffic, who is looking for that next step in your career? If yes, then we have an exciting opportunity for an SEO Specialist to join our Digital Marketing team here at Arco.

This exciting new role will report directly into our Digital Marketing Manager and will form an integral part of the team by being responsible for managing the SEO channel alongside our SEO partners. You will support in driving our sales and ensuring our digital marketing team are best in class, by working cross functionally with other teams such as Digital, Marketing, eCommerce, UX & PR, as digital is a very important focus for Arco.

This role is a hybrid position, with a mix of remote working, and office-based days (2 or 3 days a week) from our head office in Hull.

Key responsibilities include:

- Delivering the Digital Marketing team objectives through organic search performance improvements to increase website’s organic traffic and attributed sales
- Working with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, building strong relationships quickly
- Influencing the decision making both externally and across the whole digital and eCommerce teams to ensure SEO remains at the forefront within the Digital strategy
- Working with the Paid Search team to create a balanced environment for both SEO & PPC and deliver a successful “combined search” strategy
- Overseeing the strategy of the channel, leading on multiple processes
- Managing our local SEO agency and SEO listings, ensuring we are maximising our local visibility in the SERP, and identify other potential opportunities to assist in driving improvements in the channel
- Monitoring our search terms, rankings, and analytics to monitor SEO performance of the Wickes website and make recommendations for improvement

On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:

- A starting salary between £35,000 to £45,000 plus up to 10% annual bonus
- 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
- 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days (pro rata for part time) every year
- An excellent pension and 8x salary Life Assurance scheme
- A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
- Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
- Long-term service awards - we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

The ideal SEO Specialist will be/have:

- An experienced SEO Manager or Senior SEO Executive with a background in retail or agency, although not essential
- A thirst for learning and wants to continue to develop and progress your career
- Up to date with SEO best practice/impact of Google algorithm
- Experience with Google Analytics, GA4, SEMrush, Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools
- Able to develop SEO strategies to maximise SERP visibility and ranking opportunity through transactional and non-transactional content optimisation
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships quickly with a diverse set of stakeholders
- A credible communicator, a strong team player, and a SEO enthusiast
- A self-starter that can work under tight deadlines, have strong organisational skills and attention to detail

**About Us**: With almost 140 years of experience, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life industry knowledge. Our specialist safety services provide the technical services and specialist expertise for working at height, in confined spaces and with respiratory protection.

Following the appointment of our CEO in December 2022, we are now on a transformation journey to become more profitable and sustainable. This is an exciting and demanding time for the business. There is opportunity to shape and challenge the transformation journey and future growth, while balance the pressure to deliver sales growth and financial targets that are necessary to support the future growth. Our behaviours; Care, Collaborate, Perform and Deliver, are embedded within our culture, to drive performance and ensure we succeed together and are rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together.

Everyone is welcome at Arco, no matter who you are. Our business is fully committed to creating a truly inclusive, diverse and equal working environment for all of our employees, as well as our customers and suppliers. Diversity, equity, and inclusiveness are fully embedded in our culture and talent acquisiti


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