Director / Principal SEO Consultant - Bilingual

italent

Dubai, UAE

Ref: NP090-780

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

On behalf of one of the regions leading integrated Advertising Agencies, i-Talent is on the hunt for a performance driven and highly experienced Director/Principal SEO Consultant.

Overview:

Based in Dubai, with a regional remit, this is an exciting and challenging role for candidates with a passion for developing and delivering digital strategy across, performance marketing, social media, mobile, analytics, and content.

Responsibilities include analysing, reviewing and recommending strategic and tactical changes to client websites that optimize natural search results within relevant search engines by utilizing Internet best practices, Website Audits and Competitive Search Analysis.

This role reports to - Clients, Boards, CMOs, CEOs

The Responsibilities of this position include:
• Provide SEO thought leadership, innovation, process improvement initiatives to the firm and its clients
• Direct, participate in and report findings of comprehensive client Website Audits
• Direct, participate in and report findings of comprehensive client Competitive Search Analysis
• Create and recommend SEO Strategies and tactics
• Recommend SEO measurements and monitoring methodologies
• Manage client expectations, deliverables and timelines
• Direct and manage internal and external teams

Requirements

• Previous agency experience
• High standard of written English & Arabic copywriting skills
• Experience working in developed markets, USA, Europe, APAC
• To perform this job successfully, the individual should have a comprehensive understanding of:
• Internet best practices, Website Audits and Competitive Search Analysis and the impact that these have on SEO
• The Director/Principal SEO Consultant must be able to articulate and communicate the impact that Technical Structure, Design & Aesthetics, Content, Navigation, Information Architecture, Branding/Marketing, Performance, Functionality and e-commerce have on SEO
• Degree in Marketing with Online Marketing experience
• 5 – 10 years experience managing websites, both static and dynamic, updating content and images where SEO and PPC played key role in delivery
• Excellent copywriting skills with a high standard of written English & Arabic
• Ability to specify technical changes to technical/development teams
• An in-depth understanding of search engines, search engine optimization and factors that influence high rankings in Google
• Experience with PPC - Management of Pay per click programs
• Backlinking: can demonstrate successful link building campaigns that result in the acquisition of large volumes of inbound, high-quality links
• Highly analytical mind, comfortable manipulating and analyzing large amounts of data.
• Experience with web analytics tools (Urchin, Webtrends, Omniture)
• Experience using a CMS and an understanding of the impact they have on SEO
• Intermediate HTML skills, ability to hand code W3C compliant XHTML
• Understanding of ASP.net, IIS, ISAPI rewrite
• Ability to setup and test for 301 redirects, duplicate content
• Knowledge of Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and MSN AdCenter
• Ability to perform research, analyze websites, document changes, and make decisions regarding optimization approach
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills
• Comfortable interacting with C-level executives
• Outstanding customer service skills
• Ability to work independently and within a team environment
• Strong independent decision-making, organizational, planning and problem-solving skills

About the Company

italent has been around since 2012, when we saw that businesses needed better talent solutions for their employment requirements. By focusing our efforts on quality products and services that are simple-to-use and innovative, our team brings you the best results without any unexpected additional costs and unnecessary complications. Simply put, we love helping businesses find and keep the right people.

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