Deputy Head of SEO

The Sun Online is the biggest digital newsbrand in the UK and now the fastestgrowing news site in the US. The Suns multiawardwinning Audience department sits at the heart of our newsroom with our talented journalists publishing the best coverage of news sport TV and showbiz lifestyle and family value. Our hugely successful SEO team sits at the core of our publishing operation and is constantly evolving driving search traffic growing new audiences and building engagement and loyalty with our readers.

The Sun is looking for a talented individual with a background in search engine optimisation significant newsroom experience and a track record of delivering results.
As Deputy Head of SEO you will be responsible for supporting the Head of SEO in developing and implementing the editorial SEO strategy as well as helping lead our large talented team of SEO editors and writers in London.

You will support the development of The Suns digital growth strategy through technical and content SEO application of SEO tools dataled projects and strategies for organic search Discover and Google News.

Day to day you will:

• Help grow organic search Discover and Google News

• Be confident in identifying search trends and communicating them to the newsroom

• Help lead and manage a large team of SEO editors and reporters

• Lead The Suns SEO breaking news and live blog strategy

• Help oversee The Suns evergreen strategy

• Be confident with a range of SEO tools (for example SEMRush and News Dashboard)

• Analyse and report back to the newsroom on SEO successes and failures

• Liaise with different departments to ensure strategic SEO needs and objectives are met

• Ensure through training and monitoring that SEO bestpractice is adhered to

• Monitor algorithmic changes and developments and help recommend actions to relevant teams

• Perform competitor analysis and identify opportunities to improve and overtake in key markets

• Communicating content plans around key events such as Love Island to the wider newsroom

• Support content migrations and postmigration analysis & recovery

• Keep up to date on the latest SEO developments and news

What we are looking for from you:

• Organised and a good problemsolver able to eliminate obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches

• Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams

• Can demonstrate an understanding of The Sun brands

• Newsroom experience essential

• Sound technical SEO experience

At News UK we know the value of working together which is why we operate a hybrid working policy with a minimum of three days a week in the office. Being in the office allows us to collaborate innovate and thrive as a team in our vibrant and dynamic workspace. Some roles may require more officebased days depending on the nature of the position so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter to learn more about whats required for your role.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times The Sunday Times The Sun The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK and we have marketleading local stations across Ireland. Our worldfamous brands provide news analysis opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel audio and video events and experiences our multiformat brands are home to a plurality of opinion representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion guided by principles and acting with purpose we exist to promote a fair society freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling we represent reflect and reach the nation telling the stories that matter.

Life at News

Driven by passion guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent reflect and reach the nation telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individuals potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Equity and Inclusion Strategy which focuses on three main priorities attracting talent from a wider more representative pool developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

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