Search Account Director (SEO) Full Time

Group M Worldwide Inc.

Mindshare is a media services company that accelerates Good Growth for its clients. Our company values of energy, empathy and impact bind together our diverse global family of 10,000 people from every culture and with every specialist skill you can imagine. People at Mindshare create ideas and solutions that help not only our clients, but also the industry and the world.

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What We Can Offer You

At Mindshare Worldwide, we offer a competitive salary package, with 25 days holiday increasing with service to a maximum of 30 days, with the option to buy an extra 5 days per year. We also have an enhanced pension scheme, Bupa healthcare, a monthly wellbeing fund and early finishes on a Friday during summer. These are just some of the great benefits we offer.

Based ten minutes from London Bridge tube station, our office has a rooftop with 360 views of London – a great space to hang out with colleagues and friends!

We also offer an extensive training programme to help guide your career development , t here’s a wide range of options to suit everyone at all levels of your career.

Our Values & Behaviours

Our new values, of Energy , Empathy and Impact not only align with our Good Growth ambition but represent our commitment and dedication to our people , help ing them grow their careers, fostering creativity, embracing humanity, and changing the world. At Mindshare we are open to differe nce . We believe in being open and supportive of our people and all their differences to help them succeed. Be different at Mindshare and use your difference to shape the world through media.

Our Commitment

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The Role

This is a terrific opportunity for an ambitious Account Director with an organic search background to help advance insights-driven search strategies for a global FMCG business. We require a strategic leader, able to build up a quick rapport with all stakeholders to ensure a seamless interaction between our Search and Insights teams , with the goal of growing our associated business. This role would be well suited to someone looking to transition away from day-to-day channel optimisation, towards search consultancy centring on developing best practices and innovation in partnership with clients.

You will be part of wider CX (Consumer Experience ) and Centre of Excellence (COE) team of specialists focussed on all things traditional and increasingly retail search orientated. Far from acting in isolation, you will understand where search fits into the bigger picture alongside other performance channels (including Programmatic, Commerce, Paid Social and Affiliates) as part of an integrated, unified collective.

We have a positive relationship with this long-standing client and we as a team take great pride in our work, so if you want to join a well-equipped, friendly group of search specialists with big growth ambitions then we’d love to hear from you.

The Ideal Candidate

• Strong search background , showing experience in managing large holistic strategies with an organic / SEO focus
• Able to quickly learn and understand our offering to businesses, before plug ging it into client situations accordingly
• Experience of managing multiple stakeholders and projects simultaneously
• Understanding of how search channels fit into the wider digital marketing mix, and how it impacts / is impacted by other channels
• Fully confident in use of Excel
• Fully confident in use of Google Analytics
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presenting confidently and owning the room
• Cool under pressure, a people person who can work with clients and internal teams to great effect
• Proactive individual, able to bring new ideas to the table in areas such as activation, team processes, client processes, technology & automation
• FMCG experience
• Involved in new business pitches previously
• Commercially savvy, focussed on the bottom-line
• Experience in feeding into cross-channel strategic pieces

Responsibilities

• Understanding of clients’ business objectives, translating these into strategic projects focussed on improving their business performance.
• Ensuring we deliver against those strategic projects, working with all associated teams to maintain high client satisfaction at all times .
• Devising strategy and supporting projects based on client briefs , presenting these back confidently when required.
• Showcasing i nnovative strategic thinking on all client activity; to be one step ahead .
• Provide reports illustrating client performance that contain genuine insights, allowing our client to know what they require to change the dial , again using this as an opportunity to plug our advanced offering.
• Work with other teams to ensure smooth running of day-to-day activities e.g. digital media teams and account teams across the WPP network.
• Communicate on a professional level both internally and externally at all times .