Job Description

Agency :

Havas Media

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Your role

This is a senior leadership role for an experienced SEO professional who can own a complex account from strategy through to delivery. You will define how search drives commercial growth — setting priorities, shaping content direction, and coordinating multiple specialist teams to make it happen.

You will becollaboratingwith theSeniorSEOLeadon theaccount day-to-day. Youwill help themset the tone, makecalls, and take accountability for outcomes. This is not a hands-off coordination role — you will bring genuine depth across content strategy, technical SEO, and client management, and you will use thatexpertisetolead teams who trust your judgement.

What’sin it for you?

• Senior strategic ownership — shape how search drives commercial outcomes on a high-profile account, with real autonomy and accountability

• Cross-disciplinary exposure — work alongside data analysts, CX strategists, developers, and performance media experts

• Direct client impact — build relationships with senior stakeholders and see your strategy deliver results at scale

• Shape the future of search — work at the intersection of SEO, content, AI discovery, and digital PR as the search landscape evolves

What You'll Do

SEO Strategy & Account Direction

• Develop and own the SEO strategy across technical, content, and brand workstreamsin collaboration with the Account Lead

• Translate business objectives into prioritised, commerciallyframed SEO programmes

• Identifymarket opportunities through competitor intelligence, keyword landscape analysis, and audience demand signals

• Anticipate algorithmic and industry shifts — particularly around AI-driven discovery — and adapt strategy proactively

• Lead strategic reviews and present with clarity and confidence to senior stakeholders

Content Strategy & Editorial Leadership

• Own the content strategy: topicprioritisation, keyword mapping, content type mix, and editorial direction

• Lead keyword research and content architecture decisions to ensure the site structure supports — not undermines — rankings

• Commission and QA content briefs to a high standard, ensuring every piece has a clear search and commercial rationale

• Oversee blog and editorial content performance—identifyingwhat to optimise, consolidate, or retire

• Ensure content investment is grounded in real demand data, not assumptions or internal preferences

• Guide the content team with a strong editorial perspective: you know what good looks like and are not afraid to push back

Client & Account Management

• Lead day-to-day client communication with authority and clarity — proactive, not reactive

• Build strong, trust-based relationships with senior client stakeholders

• Translate SEO performance into commercial narratives — connecting rankings and visibility to revenue outcomes

• Manage client expectations through migrations, algorithm changes, and periods of strategic transition

• Present strategies, roadmaps, and performance reviews with confidence at a senior level

• Identify opportunities to grow the scope and value of the engagement over time

Technical SEO Oversight

• Provide strategic oversight of technical SEO workstreams: audits, crawl health, indexation, and site architecture

• Lead SEO input into website migrations — from recommendations through to pre- and post-launch checks

• Own the international SEO approach: market prioritisation,hreflang strategy, andlocalisationrequirements

• Ensure technical recommendations are clearly communicated to developers and correctly implemented

Performance Measurement & Reporting

• Define KPIs that connect SEO performance to the client's commercial objectives

• Oversee the data infrastructure: GA4, GSC, SEMrush,Ahrefs, and dashboardplatforms

• Produce and present performance reports that deliver insight and recommended actions — not just data

• Ensure SEO andPPCteams arealigned to avoidcannibalisation andmaximisecombined search presence

What you bring

• 5–6 years of SEO experience, with at least 2 years at a senior level on complex or high-value accounts

• A strong content strategy background — you haveshaped editorial programmes, not just briefed individual pieces

• A trackrecordof managing senior client relationships, including leading difficult conversations and presenting to commercial decision-makers

• Experience coordinating multiple teams simultaneously — developers, writers, agencies — without having direct management authority over all of them

• The ability to move between strategic thinking and detailed execution — you can write a strategy deck and review a technical audit in the same week

• Commercial fluency: you frame SEO outcomes in terms of business impact, not just search metrics

• Strong working knowledge of GA4,GSC, SEMrush, andAhrefs —enough to build reporting infrastructure and interrogate data independently

• Clear, confident written and verbal communication — your briefs are clear, your presentations compelling, your client updates proactive

• Proactive and self-directed: you read the account, identify what mattersmost, andmake it happenwithout being chased

• Familiarity with AI-driven search and LLM brand perception — how brands appear in generative search results and how to influence it

Contract Type :

Permanent

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