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Job description / Role
Souq.com is the largest ecommerce site in the Arab world. Every month, Souq.com attracts more than 35 million visits to its catalogue of more than 1.5 million unique products in 20 different categories, including consumer electronics, household goods, fashion, watches, perfumes, toys, and baby products. Established in 2005, Souq.com today operates both as an award-winning retail business and an online marketplace that allows SMEs, merchants, brands and distributors to distribute their products online.
With more than 3,000 employees, we operate with the scale and ambition of a big corporation, but we cultivate a strong entrepreneurial and nimble mindset to ensure we execute with speed and efficiency. We have offices and local operations in UAE, Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and leading Product and Engineering centers in Jordan and India. We offer competitive salaries and benefits, and a unique opportunity to join the leading player in an ever growing and exciting industry.
Primary Responsibilities:
Key Management Areas of Responsibility
- Define requirements, tasks, and resources associated to SEO strategy
- Manage and execute implementation of SEO strategy
- Communication to clients, team, and management on strategy/project development, timelines, and results
- Keep pace with SEO, search engine, social media and internet marketing industry trends and development
- Perform keyword research in coordination with client business objectives to optimize existing content and uncover new opportunities
- Provide SEO analysis and recommendations in coordination with elements and structure of websites and web pages
- Provide recommendations and execute/manage strategies for content development in coordination with SEO goals - general and keyword specific
- Help to create and support marketing content
- Develop and implement link building campaigns
- Implement and administer search engine programs with support of the product team and coordinate/lead the execution to reach its deliverable.
- Monitor and evaluate search results and search performance across the major search channels in order to improve rankings and reduce competition.
- Research and administer social media tools in support of clients' social media strategy
- Monitor and evaluate analytics dashboards and reports in order to develop and recommend SEO strategies
Requirements
Job Requirements:
- 7+ years experience core SEO function leadership with a tracked record of technical and content SEO achievement.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, project management and time management skills
- Strong understanding of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) process
- Experience working with popular keyword tools (Google, WordTracker, Keyword Discovery, etc)
- Experience working with CMS and building/administering content in multiple CMS environments
- Knowledge of HTML/CSS and website administration
- Knowledge of PPC programs and optimizing data gathered from both organic and paid sources
- E-commerce Experience in MEA is a Plus
Core Competencies:
- Strong problem solving skills.
- Team collaboration.
- Excellent Communication skills
- Analytical skills.
- Creativity.
About the Company
Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.