SEO Manager - Online Holiday Startup

Discipline - Marketing

Subsector - Online Marketing / Web Strategy

Location - Hyderabad

About our Client - Our client is a leading MNC in the Online Holiday space with over 10million unique visitors annually, alongside a Global presence and an ever-increasing India footprint. They are well-funded and poised to challenge the Industry players in the space, and need a strong SEO Manager to fuel and sustain that growth for the country.

Job Description - Reporting to the Head of Customer Acquisition, you will have the following responsibilities:

- Responsibility of on and off page SEO and delivering growth in organic traffic

- You will guide the SEO strategy and help communicate this to the company, in particular ensuring implementation of your recommendations by the technical teams

- You will manage a team of 3 SEO analysts to help monitor performance and develop your recommendations

- You will develop and maintain SEO landing pages, with keywords and architecture optimized for SEO purposes

- You will oversee company PR and partnerships to achieve link building equity

- You will provide detailed measures of web analytics and site traffic performance, tracking our SEO performance across key brand and non-brand terms as well as in aggregate

- You will work closely with the community manager to support development of the content plan for the company blog, including creative produced in-house and via external bloggers

- You will support the Product Manager responsible for hotel inventory content on site, ensuring all development is in-line with SEO best practices

- Example activities will include SEO analysis and recommendations for the structure of the website and key web pages

- Keyword research aligned to our business objectives to optimize existing content and identify new opportunities

- Provide recommendations and execute/manage strategies for content development in coordination with SEO goals - general and keyword specific

- Developing and implementing link building campaigns

- Utilize search engine tools and resources to ensure on-going site optimization (XML sitemaps, webmaster tools etc)

The Successful Candidate:

- 7+ years' experience in and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with a passion for SEO and overall internet marketing. Structured analytical thinker will first class problem solving skills. You will have the ability to identify and optimize the levers available to drive SEO performance.

- The person must be a highly motivated and entrepreneurial individual that wants to work as part of a growing digital business with ability to clearly and effectively articulate thoughts and points.

- High levels of integrity, autonomy, and self-motivation besides excellent analytical, organizational, project management and time management skills are a must. Self-starting and highly focused individual that will thrive with the challenge to develop the SEO team into a critical asset for the business.

- Strong academic background with a good degree from a top university. Experience working with popular keyword tools and working with CMS and building/administering content in multiple CMS environments.

- Experience with web analysis using a variety of analytics tools including Google Analytics as well as internal reporting tools besides knowledge of HTML/CSS and website administration

What's on Offer - A chance to work with the Industry's leading brand that offers great growth prospects and competitive pay.

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