Senior SEO Strategist

Do you have a passion for eCommerce SEO and want to work for one of the UK’s award-winning digital agencies?

We’re looking for a Senior SEO Strategist to join our fantastic SEO team. In this role, you’ll manage your own client accounts, deliver high-impact SEO strategies, work closely with your peers and supporting each others development, while learning from experienced managers.

The role blends consultancy, implementation, and account management. You’ll have the chance to work directly with clients, presenting ideas, answering SEO queries, and guiding them on technical SEO, content, and digital PR. Alongside client work, you’ll also contribute to internal initiatives that drive innovation and meaningful change across the agency.

This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys responsibility, and wants to deepen their expertise in eCommerce SEO.

As Senior SEO Strategist, you’ll be responsible for:

• Reviewing data and analytics to ensure client growth is on track and reporting and explaining this to clients.
• Leading monthly and quarterly performance reviews, identifying the root causes of performance changes, and turning insights into clear actions
• Acting as a project owner, managing multiple client accounts and exceeding expectations.
• Prioritising and executing client roadmaps, ensuring delivery across technical fixes, content recommendations, and PR opportunities.
• Building strong client relationships through clear communication and delivery.
• Acting as the go-to SEO expert for your clients, across technical, content, and PR queries.
• Running technical audits and translating them into developer-ready actions
• Leading keyword/market research to shape client growth plans
• Collaborating with PR on integrated campaigns
• Identifying opportunities to protect or grow retainer value
• Working on internal process improvements and business initiatives.

You’ll be successful in this role when you consistently demonstrate:

• Client Growth: You deliver measurable improvements in organic performance across your accounts (e.g., YoY revenue, traffic, visibility, or priority keyword movement).
• Quality of Strategy: Your SEO strategies are clear, evidence-led, and consistently drive meaningful client outcomes.
• Client Satisfaction: Your clients trust you as their SEO expert, measured through positive feedback, strong retention, and minimal escalations.
• Project Ownership: You independently manage your client accounts, hitting deadlines, prioritising effectively, and keeping work on track without needing heavy oversight.
• Communication Excellence: You present ideas clearly, explain SEO in a simple way, and proactively keep clients and internal teams updated.
• Innovation & Improvement: You contribute to improving internal processes, frameworks, or knowledge-sharing, helping the entire SEO team develop.
  Team Contribution: You support junior team members with guidance and QA, helping them grow and ensuring high-quality output across the team.
  Commercial Awareness: You identify opportunities to drive client value, protect retainers, and enhance long-term partnerships.

We’d love to hear from candidates who have:

• 2+ years agency-side SEO experience, ideally with eCommerce brands.
• A strong understanding of SEO strategy across technical, content, and digital PR.
• A proven track record of delivering SEO performance improvements for clients.
• Strong project management skills, balancing multiple workflows effectively.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify SEO for generalist marketers.
• Experience with Google Analytics, Search Console, Excel, and G-Suite.
• Evidence of using AI and automations in your work
• Knowledge of the changing search landscape, including optimising for LLMs. 
• Evidence of knowledge sharing within a team or mentoring more junior teammates.
• An analytical mindset - able to clearly demonstrate impact through data.

You'll join a growing, employee-owned agency ranked as one of the UK's best workplaces. Benefits include:

• Unlimited annual leave
• Annual profit share via our Employee Ownership Trust
• Health cash plan and virtual GP access
• Discounted gyms and wellbeing support
• Hybrid working with flexible hours
• Annual 2-week Christmas closure
• Team socials and cultural events
• Competitive training budget
• Early finish on the last Friday of every month
• Quarterly Personal Care Day and birthday day off
• Charity initiatives with company donations

Our Values

At NOVOS, our values guide everything we do. We're looking for someone who lives them too:

• Sustained Growth: Always learning, always sharing knowledge, and supporting others to grow
• Simplicity: Cutting through jargon and making a complex strategy clear and accessible
• Specialism: Becoming a true expert in eCommerce strategy across platforms and emerging trends
• Stand Out, Be Unique: Bringing individuality and new perspectives to the table
• Service First: Going beyond deliverables to build trust and long-term client partnerships

NOVOS is an eCommerce growth agency specialising in SEO, GEO/AEO, digital PR, and paid media for retail brands around the world. We're employee-owned, which means:

• Everyone has a voice in how we run the business
• We operate with full financial transparency
• Every team member shares in our success through equity and annual profit share

That commitment has been recognised externally as we recently ranked 5th in the UK's Best Workplaces and won a Beacon of Excellence award, one of just 20 agencies nationwide. We work with some of the best brands in the industry, including Osprey, Fred Perry, Watches of Switzerland Group, and TALA, alongside ambitious, high-growth eCommerce businesses. From day one, we've always operated in line with our values, which included selling the business to the staff instead of a corporation and being laser-focused on the clients we work with.