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Haymarket is a successful international specialist media company. We have over 60 market-leading brands in the consumer and B2B markets across the UK, US, Asia, India and Germany, connecting people and communities across digital, print, festivals, awards, conferences, and exhibitions.

Our HQ is located in Twickenham and is home to around 600 employees with a vast array of careers from journalism, video, marketing, sales and events to technology, digital development and product management.

The range of benefits are vast and include hybrid working, flexible hours, a generous pension plan, life assurance, up to 30 days holiday and a fabulous income protection policy. Oh, and our annual employee party is pretty special too!

About the role:

What Car? is seeking an experienced Digital Editor to lead its digital channels, with a major focus on SEO strategy. This role will be managing a team of five.

You will be an integral member of the senior editorial team. You will be working closely with the Editor to help shape What Car?’s content and editorial direction and will be required to represent the brand internally and externally.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading and developing What Car?’s editorial SEO strategy to bring its journalism to a wider audience through search engines.

• Leading the daily output of What Car?’s digital channels, including social media.

• Ensuring journalists are informed about the latest SEO trends and maximising opportunities to make the most of those trends.

• Developing evergreen content strategies to drive traffic from search engines.

• Ensuring all journalists are acting upon SEO advice.

• Keeping up to date with changes in Google news and web search algorithms.

• Working with the technical SEO team to scope and prioritise technical changes that will benefit our efforts.

• Using analytics to measure performance in real-time, daily, weekly and monthly, and responding to that by enacting any changes necessary.

• Working in collaboration with our external SEO agency, acting on their advice.

• Working with the digital team on Autocar to ensure that their strategy also reflects best SEO practice.

Key skills:

• Extensive knowledge of SEO and how to use data to make informed publishing decisions

• Proven success in implementing SEO strategies

• Strong automotive market knowledge (can be built over time)

• Ability to respond well under pressure and adhere to deadlines

• Experience of managing a range of stakeholders, including managing upwards

• Confidence to approach desk editors with how they should be using SEO

• Skilled in the use of tracking tools

• Knowledge of technical SEO

Why work with us?

People are our greatest asset here at Haymarket Media Group. Haymarket is a media, information and data business, we use our expertise in media and information to inspire, inform and empower our clients, audiences and communities. We are a socially and environmentally responsible business. As we serve our audiences, clients and communities, we are committed to driving the meaningful change necessary to build a better world. The principles of diversity, inclusion, respect, responsibility and sustainability are at the heart of our business.

We’re hard-wired to produce remarkable content for our audiences, with over 16,000 companies around the globe turning to us to help their businesses grow. Join us and you will work on market-leading brands to help create powerful and lasting relationships that deliver real results, all while developing your own career.

Our conveniently located Twickenham HQ is home to around 600 employees with a vast array of careers from journalism, video, marketing, sales and events to technology, digital development and product management.

As well as being the home of English rugby, Twickenham has the benefit of being less than 30 minutes from central London but also enjoying its riverside location, proximity to Richmond Park and a buzzing social scene.

With flexible hours, great brands, and a modern open plan environment, we attract great people. There’s time for you to get involved in our extra-curricular activities too; from volunteering with our charity partners, going for a lunch-time riverside run, cycling around Richmond Park or after work fun!

Our team culture is friendly, vibrant and sociable. We nurture, support and reward our talent. We offer a market-leading benefits programme, tailored to individual needs and preferences. The range of benefits are vast and include a generous pension plan, life assurance, up to 30 days holiday and a fabulous income protection policy. Oh, and our annual employee party is pretty special too!

Our benefits include:

• Competitive salary

• Comprehensive training and career development programme

• 25 days holiday per year excluding bank holidays (increasing 1 day per year of service up to 30 days)

• Flexible working schedule (core hours from 11-3)

• Generous contributory pension scheme

• Access to Perkbox

• Health Cash Plan

• Family friendly policies

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Season ticket loan

• Regular individual and team rewards and incentives for outstanding performance

We want to support our people to balance their personal and professional lives and we believe our range of benefits encourages this. We feel that nothing beats face-time with our colleagues and we’ve therefore adopted a blended working model where full time employees can expect to spend 3 days of their week in the office and the other 2 working at a location of their choice.

As a global business operating in diverse markets, Haymarket is inherently multicultural. Globally we are committed to attracting, developing and retaining talent who reflect the communities we serve. We equally recognise our broader responsibility to society as a whole. We will use our power and influence to drive diversity, equity and inclusion within our markets.

As such, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].

Come and join us and see for yourself how Haymarket is a rewarding and exciting place to work.