# SEO Assistant Manager

**Company**: Marks & Spencer
**Location**: United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

Help shape how millions of customers discover M&S online as an SEO Assistant Manager. You will bring together content, insight, and creativity to improve organic visibility and create more useful, inspiring digital journeys across the UK and Ireland Fashion, Home & Beauty business.

Working across Menswear, Kidswear, and Third-Party Brands, you will collaborate with writers, editors, merchandisers, analysts, and commercial teams to turn search opportunities into high-performing content. This is an exciting opportunity to make a visible impact, experiment with new ideas, and help drive sustainable organic growth for one of the UK's most recognised retailers.

**Key Accountabilities:**

- Optimise on-page content, including meta tags, headings, copy, and internal links, across priority Fashion, Home & Beauty templates to improve SEO performance.

- Lead editorial planning, content briefs, and gap analysis, recommending evergreen topics that strengthen the content calendar and increase long-form visibility in search results.

- Develop and refine topic clusters, aligning content updates with taxonomy improvements, category strategies, and wider business priorities.

- Use keyword, competitor, and performance data to identify opportunities to improve content quality, site hygiene, and internal linking, then report results and share actionable insights.

- Coordinate large-scale content delivery with external copywriting partners and cross-functional teams, managing briefs, budgets, and priorities while embedding SEO best practice.

**Requirements:**

- Demonstrable experience working in an SEO team or agency, with strong knowledge of content optimisation, search intent, and on-page SEO factors.

- A good understanding of ecommerce page types and how category, product, and editorial content can be optimised for organic search.

- A data-driven approach, with the ability to turn keyword, competitor, and performance insights into clear recommendations and measure their impact.

- Strong organisation and project-management skills, with confidence managing multiple priorities, large-scale content activity, and complex data sets.

- Clear, engaging communication and a collaborative approach, with excellent written English and the ability to build strong relationships across creative, analytical, and commercial teams.

**Benefits:**

- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you've completed your probation.

- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more.

- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours.

- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future.

- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one.

- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal.

- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption, and neonatal leave.

- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services.

- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you.

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## Skills

### Required
- SEO
- content optimisation
- search intent
- on-page SEO factors
- data analysis
- project management
- communication

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