SEO Specialist and Consultant

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Global digital agency

So you can perform a keyword analysis? How about a 200-site migration? For one of the world’s largest retail brands in a best of breed CMS? Oh, and aligning technology, content and authority with internal and external stakeholders to set the basis for worldwide organic growth is also part of the task. If this sounds like a challenge, you might be our person! Valtech is looking for an experienced Search Engine Optimization Specialist and Consultant.

What do we expect from you?

  • A bachelor’s or master’s degree in marketing or a marketing related major
  • 3-5+ years of experience in digital marketing and SEO
  • Deep understanding of organic search, SEO trends and best practices, with tech SEO as your main driver
  • Experience in a few tools like Moz, Searchmetrics, Deepcrawl, Ahrefs
  • You can turn your knowledge and insights into actionable advice for different audiences
  • Experience with Sitecore, Episerver or Adobe CMS and scrum/agile development is a big plus
  • General understanding of digital marketing, including digital analytics, campaigns and content
  • Professional level mastery of English, both in speaking and writing
  • Solid communication skills, a self-starting mentality and passion for your field of expertise
  • A positive attitude, keen to learn and willingness to take risks, to fail, and to adapt

What will you be doing?

In this role, you will be responsible developing and executing comprehensive organic search strategies across our client’s web platforms. Your direct colleagues will be our digital marketing consultants, digital strategists, analysts and development teams. Together you are going to deliver value to our global clients. You are the ambassador for search engine optimization with internal and external stakeholders. Next to this, you will do the following things:

  • Conduct audits on technology, content and authority and present the results as comprehensive strategies to our clients
  • Create a backlog with optimizations, discuss priorities with stakeholders and execute improvements
  • Be a part of development teams for large-scale website projects, setting the standard for findability, crawlability and indexability. You will fill the development backlog and create acceptance criteria, in alignment with a digital marketing consultant or directly with the product owner or client stakeholders
  • Perform quality assurance for newly built SEO functionalities
  • Perform large scale migrations with extensive redirect activities and organic monitoring
  • Set up continuous improvement programs. Continuously ideate and execute off-site, on-site and on-page improvements to grow organic KPI’s, including keyword strategies and research, user intent analysis, management of crawl budget, reporting automation, link building strategies, etcetera.
  • Manage webmaster tools beyond Google, including Bing, Naver and Yandex
  • Align with consultants and channel specialists from our Data and Content & Campaigns teams for marketing synergy and increased impact
  • Act as a consultant in your field, a discussion partner who finds the best solution for a challenge, with a bird’s-eye view beyond organic alone.

You’ll be a member of our international marketing services team. As SEO specialists, we’re part of the data team with other talents and specialists. Here, you and your colleagues form part of a growing circle that works together closely to create a shared impact for some wonderful brands.

What do we offer in return?

Good employment terms and conditions, a competitive salary and room to develop yourself. How quickly your career progresses and how fast your salary grows depends entirely on you – with some help from your mentor, of course. Our internal Academy will also help you continue to develop yourself. In addition, you can also follow a work-related educational program with an external provider (in consultation with your mentor). And because work, learning and private life are increasingly entwined, you can arrange your working time flexibly to match your creative peaks. Furthermore, you’ll get this:

  • 25 vacation days. Want more? You can buy up to 10 days extra
  • Pension scheme
  • Travel allowance (NS Businesscard)
  • Group health insurance
  • Laptop and mobile phone

About Valtech

Valtech is a global digital agency active in 15 countries. We help global brands create value and achieve transformation with 45 offices, 3000 digital minds, 26 years of experience and one unique culture. The Dutch branch has four offices with 300 professionals.

We design and build unique experiences and run continuous improvement efforts and live, eat and breathe business transformation across the digital world. We combine experience design, technology development, marketing services and strategy in all stages of the business lifecycle with unique solutions that outcompete others in quality, speed and value.