As our new SEO Account Director, you'll be taking charge of a talented team and working with a range of clients in the fashion and beauty space. Working both with the wider OP team, as well as collaborating with the wider business, you'll be responsible for delivering a best in class experience to our clients.

You'll manage and mentor Managers and Execs, ensuring the teams function effectively and efficiently and ensuring consistent SEO strategy implementation, as well as working with other channels to develop cross-channel strategies.

You'll attend key client meetings and reviews, participate in and own new business pitches, and develop the department by collaborating with other Account Directors and the Director of SEO to drive innovation and product development. Additionally, you'll oversee resourcing and financing for your group.

Key Duties

Management & mentoring

• Ensuring all teams are delivering audit, ideation and outreach in a consistent and effective manner. Set process should be ever evolving and followed to aide this.
• Appraisals and regular one to ones with direct reports (Team Leads) to ensure their development and knowledge base is improving
• Ensure your direct reports are developing and mentoring their teams.
• Ensure a good attendance at important monthly and review meetings with the client teams. Ensuring your contribution is seen as a benefit to having you in attendance.
• Strategy and innovation
• Work with other Group Leads and the Director of OP to develop strategic approaches to how organic search is deployed. Take learnings from previous implementations and apply this to continually evolve the strategies on accounts.
• Continue to develop your knowledge within the digital industry, share and discuss with peers how organic search is changing and how Assembly can react to these changes.
• Ensure all accounts are driving hard to continually add value to the client's business, this will be through continued optimisation and innovation. Looking for areas where this can be driven from.

New business and pitching

• Participating in new business work when required, you must take ownership and ensure delivery of the areas you have been assigned.
• Working with the New Business representative and Director of OP to formulate the commercial structure and FTE allocation.
• Financial responsibility
• Ensure the teams within your group are tracking the resource being assigned to each account. This is then used to calculate the overall profitability of a particular client.
• Work with the client leads to create the resource/financial reports required to demonstrate that profitability is being achieved.
• All additional costs are being monitored and controlled.

Requirements

• The ability to mentor and add value to already experienced people

• FInancial experience relating to running teams and client accounts
• Excellent communications skills
• Excellent written & spoken English
• Stakeholder management experience
• Problem solver & decision maker
• Strong attention to detail, excellent numeracy understanding with strong emphasis on statistical data

Benefits

In return for your enthusiasm and expertise, we’ll reward you with a competitive salary and an enviable range of flexible benefits that include free breakfast and lunch, 24 days holiday a year (with the option to buy more days), pension, life assurance, private medical cover, childcare vouchers, numerous gym offers and a bike to work scheme or cash alternative. We also have a free bar where we celebrate successes or sometimes just unwind after a busy week.

Our benefits include, 24 days holiday a year (increasing by 1 day/year to a max of 30 with every year of service), a day of birthday leave, 1/2 day off before public holidays, 1/2 day off for Christmas shopping, early finish Fridays, free breakfast and subsidised lunches, pension, life assurance, enhanced parental leave and access to Perkbox.

Equal Opportunities

Assembly is an advocate for equal opportunity in the workplace. We are committed to ensuring equal opportunities regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability and gender identity. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know

Discover the perks of joining our team, where your well-being and growth are paramount. Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 24 days, rising by a day for each year of service, up to a maximum of 30 days, ensuring you have ample time to rejuvenate. We celebrate your milestones by giving you an additional day off for your birthday and 1/2 day during December, whether that be to get a bit of last minute shopping in, or attend your child's school play!

Embrace the flexibility of our hybrid working policy, empowering you to work remotely two days a week, supplemented by a remote pot of four weeks to accommodate life's demands. We also relish our early finish Fridays to kickstart your weekend.

We’re proud to prioritise family with our comprehensive parental leave policies,  including a maternity return to work bonus, temporary flexible arrangements on return, and the support of a dedicated coach to ease your transition back to work. Gain peace of mind with our life assurance and critical illness cover, along with access to our Medicash healthcare cash plan.

As a member of the IPA, we offer a plethora of development opportunities to nurture your professional growth, coupled with access to mental health coaching to support your holistic well-being. 

We respect diverse beliefs through our bank holiday exchange scheme and even offer pawternity leave to support your furry family members. Join us and thrive in an inclusive environment where your well-being and individuality are celebrated.

Social and Environmental Responsibility

At Assembly, we have a responsibility to bring impact into our every day. This means we must always look for ways in which to be conscious citizens in our roles to support society and environmental sustainability. We encourage employees to; be a conscious citizen by actively participating in our organisation's sustainability efforts, help us promote environmentally friendly practices within the workplace, collaborate with community organisations and stakeholders to support initiatives aligned with our company's values, participate in volunteer activities that benefit the community. Employees are also encouraged to make suggestions and evaluate our business practices to identify areas for improvement in social and environmental performance. Employees at Assembly demonstrate commitment to sustainability and inclusivity in their actions and behaviours