Role: SEO Account Executive                   Department/Team: CX Department - SEO Team             

Role Objective

The perfect opportunity for a graduate looking to get into digital media, this role is designed to give the right individual exposure to the world of SEO across multiple clients.

Working within the SEO team, the successful candidate will be integral in achieving client goals through data-driven SEO consultancy. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate an enthusiasm for digital media and be keen to develop a career within digital industry.

About the role

• Regular tasks: Keyword research, on-page optimisation, technical audits, competitor analysis, monthly reporting using analytics and other tools
• Oversee the performance of all SEO campaigns and ensure that key insights are incorporated into future activity (monitor and report KPIs and technical issues across all clients’ websites)
• Supporting weekly client calls and actively participating in monthly meetings with clients
• Developing and delivering strategic SEO recommendations that adhere to latest industry best-practices (including across eRetail, Voice search and Google My Business)
• Supporting the account manager and client lead in future SEO strategy creation
• Completing the necessary specialist qualifications, e.g. Google Analytics, Google Search Fundamentals and Google DataStudio exams

About you

• Analytically minded, with the ability to identify trends within data sets
• Highly organised, with strong attention to detail and time management skills
• Able to communicate effectively, and work as part of a team
• Experience using basic features of PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel (e.g. Creating and formatting presentations, sorting and filtering data, creating graphs and tables)
• Any programming or coding knowledge (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python) would be beneficial, but not essential

Measures of Success

By month 3, you would have:

• Strengthened your SEO skills, identifying and filling in gaps in your learning
• Delivered consistently high-quality work, and accurate insightful reporting
• Built strong relationships with peers, delivering high quality work

By month 6, you would have:

• Demonstrated you can deliver projects meeting deadlines and with high standards.
• Developed your knowledge and experience working with Media Planning, understanding how SEO works as part of a wider Media strategy, and feeding into briefs

After 1 year, you would have:

• Raised your knowledge in all areas of SEO to be able to support across different projects, including use of internal SEO tools.
• Be comfortably executing projects from start to finish, managing communications and meeting deadlines.

What we can offer you

• A strong salary commensurate and in-line with relevant experience
• 25 days annual leave and your birthday day off
• Ongoing internal and external training opportunities
• Flexible working
• The opportunity to attend industry conferences and awards nights
• Career and personal progression
• Private Healthcare
• Excellent pension matching structure

About Mindshare

Mindshare is a leading global marketing and media services network with billings in excess of £23billion worldwide. We work with some of the most famous businesses and brands in the UK – such as Unilever, Ford, KFC, Nike, Marks & Spencer and TK Maxx. The Mindshare network consists of 116 offices across 86 countries throughout the USA, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific; each dedicated to forging competitive marketing advantage for businesses and their brands.

Our approach

Our ambition is to drive Good Growth for our clients.

Good Growth is about delivering growth that is enduring and is considerate of people and planet. Media is a powerful force, and we need to be mindful of the responsibility that it brings. We help our clients make better decisions by ensuring we use media in a trusted, inclusive and sustainable way. We recognise that in order to drive Good Growth, we need to place people at the heart of everything we do. Understanding people, not demographics allows us to place media meaningfully into their lives. 

Good Growth is a big ambition – one which inspires change for the industry but also for our agency and we achieve this through our values of Energy, Empathy and Impact. 

Working for Mindshare

Our brilliant people allow us to deliver our ambition. We invest heavily in their development to ensure they are progressing and thriving wherever they work in our business. We also think inspiration for our staff is key and our pinnacle and flagship event of the year, Huddle, connects people, opinions and perspectives across borders and is all about learning something new and participating.​

Committed to Diversity & Inclusion

We have a big dream at Mindshare, to become the most inclusive place to work in the country! This will take time but the whole agency is passionate about making it a reality. To support this, we currently have 8 Employee Resource Groups available for our people to join and be a part of including, Roots, PrideM, Women in Business, Enable, Declassify, 0Borders, ADAM and Working Parents. These groups hold the agency to account for making progress and, along with our Mental Health Allies, design and lead events and initiatives that help us create a welcoming environment to all and a place where everyone can be their most confident self.