SEO Account Manager
Job Location:
Manchester - UK
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Job Summary
About the Role:
PHD UK is looking for an SEO Account Manager to join a growing team and manage some of the agencys bestknown and most complex accounts.
This is an exciting and challenging role for someone ready to step up and take ownership of toptier SEO and organic accounts evolving from traditional search optimisation into futurefacing organic growth including GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) AIdriven discovery and multiformat search visibility.
Our team is constantly evolving to stay ahead of search engine innovation AI disruption and changing user behaviour. We are looking for someone eager to continuously develop their skills and actively shape the future of organic performance.
With the support of the wider team you will be responsible for the daytoday running of client accounts working closely with an SEO Account Director. This will include auditing reporting strategy execution and innovation testing as well as close collaboration with widerteams.
You will be in daily contact with clients proactively identifying opportunities to grow organic market share SERP visibility AI search presence and brand authority while developing futureready organic strategies that reflect changes in how users discover and consume information.
Role Overview
SEO Account Manager Organic AI Search & GEO
- Plan and manage multiple highprofile client accounts focusing on SEO GEO and wider organic performance
- Ensure full-channel integration with PPC Paid Social Digital PR and Content teams
- Own organic strategy spanning:
- Technical SEO
- Content & onsite optimisation
- Authority building & Digital PR
- SERP feature optimisation (video images shopping news PAA etc.)
- GEO / AI search optimisation (LLM visibility entity optimisation cited sources)
- Translate client objectives into cohesive innovative and testled organic strategies
- Prepare lead and confidently present in client meetings QBRs and strategy sessions
- Report on performance using commercial meaningful metrics tying SEO impact to business outcomes
- Manage junior team members and specialist resources to ensure accurate timely and highquality delivery
Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities
Client & Account Management
- Own the flow of communication with clients: meetings presentations reporting and daytoday queries
- Build trusted senior relationships and act as a strategic organic partner
- Proactively identify growth opportunities aligned to business brand and audience needs
- Ensure Account Director and senior stakeholders remain fully informed on performance and opportunities
Strategy & Innovation
- Develop and activate bestpractice futurefacing SEO strategies supported by the SEO Director
- Embed GEO principles including:
- Optimising content and entities for AIgenerated answers (e.g. Google AI Overviews Copilot ChatGPT Gemini)
- Improving brand and content citation likelihood in LLM responses
- Structuring content for retrievalaugmented generation (RAG)
- Explore new organic surfaces and formats including video AIdriven experiences and emerging SERP layouts
- Lead testing and experimentation documenting learnings to evidence account evolution
Execution & Performance
- Oversee regular:
- Technical SEO audits (core web vitals crawlability indexation JS rendering international SEO)
- Content optimisation and editorial planning
- Performance reporting and insight generation
- Ensure strategies align with EEAT accessibility privacy and brand compliance standards
- Use data and insight to shape roadmaps forecasts and prioritisation
Internal Collaboration & Growth
- Work with the Head of SEO on commercial forecasting and P&L updates
- Support new business pitches audits and organic thought leadership
- Line manage and develop SEO Executives and content collaborators
- Share best practice innovation and learnings across the wider agency
Likely Candidate Profile
- Strong wellrounded SEO experience (agency or inhouse) with a clientfacing background
- Technically confident with experience improving performance across complex websites
- Demonstrable understanding of modern search behaviour including AIassisted discovery
- Working knowledge of GEO / AI search optimisation and interest in emerging search ecosystems
- Comfortable working across SEO Content Digital PR CRO and Paid Media
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Advanced user of Excel PowerPoint and Word for insightled storytelling
- Proven record of exceptional client experience strategic thinking and campaign delivery
- Passionate about digital marketing and excited by a fastevolving search landscape
Competencies & Personal Attributes
- Strategic creative and naturally curious; actively seeks innovation
- Confident communicator who can present to senior clients and internal leadership
- Strong relationship builder with commercial awareness
- Proactive problemsolver with a find a better way mindset
- Resultsorientated with excellent planning and organisational skills
- Collaborative team player who supports and develops others
- Clear concise and compelling written and verbal communication skills
About the Agency:
PHD UK is a growth-focused media agency driven by innovation and creativity. It is the reigning Campaign AND Media Week Awards Media Agency of the Year and in March 2026 was named as the most awarded media agency in the World in the annual Warc Media 100 rankings.
Founded in London in 1990 we were the first media agency to offer strategic and creative planning at a time when the industry was about buying cheaply and quickly.
Our founders saw a bright future where smart thinking and clever planning could help brands grow faster than their competitors.
Over the subsequent 3 decades we have continued to build on this defining ethic with our evolution shaped by a continual investment in thought leadership and a culture of Ingenuity.
Today with over 100 offices in 74 countries we continue to create remarkable campaigns that lead to remarkable growth using the extending canvas of data and technology.
At Omnicom Media Group we are committed to supporting flexibility for our peoplewhile fostering collaboration innovation and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office two working remotely) to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 17:30 but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day whether thats in the office or working remotely. For example you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.
We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.
Be Your Best
We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable you can email us confidentially at to let us know how we can support you.
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