Careers at Fanatic
SEO Specialist / Senior Marketing Executive
- company
- Fanatic
- location
- City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
- posted
- 19 Oct
- We're a fast-growing digital and creative agency based in Bristol with international clients, established in 2001. We're looking for a senior executive/specialist to join our SEO team as we expand our client base in both this team and the wider digital marketing team.
- **About Fanatic**
- We are a creative digital agency with in-house Design, Development and Digital Marketing teams. We’re expanding rapidly, and it would be great to find someone who wants to develop while we develop the business and the team. We are a very fun and social team, with plenty of events throughout the year. We believe a good work-life balance is key.
- Fanatic has an established digital marketing team, delivering SEO, CRO, paid media, email, content creation, organic social services, and digital marketing consultancy to a diverse set of clients. We work within finance, e-commerce, recruitment, health, events, restaurants, and more at a local, national, and international level. We have a team with a diverse skill set, including content creation, marketing data analysis, SEO, CRO, paid media and technical optimisation skills, among others.
- **Our Culture**
- We are an independent, owner-managed team who all care about high-quality production and marketing performance. We are driven by the creative satisfaction of a great project delivered and the rapport built with the resulting happy client.
- Our culture is about balancing processes with individual talent. People are rewarded for being accountable for delivering great work while being supported by clear processes that are there to help without getting in the way.
- With such a diverse range of in-house services, we give people great freedom to explore their roles and shape where they want to go with their careers. A good fit means Fanatic should also represent the right choice as a vehicle for your next step, so we are always interested in where people want to go and believe in them to get there.
- **What we offer**
- Extra day holiday per year of employment up to 33 days
- Annual pay reviews based on performance
- 3 whole team social events per year
- Perkbox with regular monthly recognitions given to the team
- An active Social Committee that organises smaller team events such as go- karting, pottery, chocolate making, lido visits etc.
- Health Care package (GP access and Employee Help lines)
- Monthly wellbeing walks
- Cycle to work + Office snacks + beers on a Friday + board games night
- **The Role**
- Salary: £30,000 - 38,000
- Location: Blended working (A minimum of 3 days at Courage House, 3 Ashman's Road, Bristol, BS3 2EZ)
- Contract: Full Time / Permanent
- **What we are looking for**
- We're on the lookout for a mid-level SEO specialist, with a good few years’ experience, who’s looking for a new challenge. We want you to develop and execute SEO strategies to drive high-intent organic traffic and improve revenue growth for our clients, as well as supporting the dev team with website migrations and launches from a technical SEO point of view.
- You’ll speak to clients regularly to update them on progress and results. You will always receive credit for your great work from within Fanatic and directly from the client. You will also work with the in-house designers and developers to implement more extensive changes needed to support the SEO work.
- **Responsibilities**
- Develop and execute effective SEO strategies across a range of clients and verticals.
- Use various analytical tools to assess competitor activity and spot opportunities for growth.
- Carry out accurate reporting, analysis, and research for existing and new SEO accounts.
- Create comprehensive SEO proposals for new clients.
- Regular communication with clients to understand their business needs and KPIs, and to update them on progress, results, and next steps.
- Create monthly performance reports using Looker Studio and/or Google Slides.
- Support the head of SEO and the other members of the digital team.
- Work closely with the internal Fanatic teams and external client teams.
- **Skills**
- Essential:
- 3+ years’ experience in SEO, preferably within a digital marketing agency.
- Strong communication and organisation skills with the ability to adapt in agile ways of working.
- Ability to multitask and self-manage while handling projects under tight deadlines in a fast-moving environment.
- Strong understanding of search engine algorithms, ranking factors, and on-page, off-page and technical SEO best practices and implementation.
- Proficient with SEO and analytics tools, e.g. Google Analytics 4, Google Search Console, SEMrush, Ahrefs, Sitebulb, Screaming Frog.
- Proven track record of creating and implementing effective SEO strategies across different business verticals.
- Overall understanding of the digital marketing landscape.
- Desirable:
- International SEO experience.
- Understanding and implementation of AI/GEO search strategies.
- Good HTML and CSS knowledge.
Experience in using looker studio
Experience of managing/supervising/training others
**We very much look forward to meeting you, hearing about your experience and discussing if Fanatic could be a good next step for your career.**