Detailed Description

As a SEO Executive at JD you will work with the existing team to maximise organic search performance by optimising content on Italian language sites, ensuring that the sites meet technical best practice and delivering a forward looking strategy.  

You'll be stepping into the role at a key time for our International SEO department with lots of opportunity for growth and to showcase your work. You'd be the champion of SEO for JD
Italy, ensuring that best SEO practices are adhered to and implementing the SEO strategy for the websites. As part of the SEO team, you'll be working alongside experts across the SEO spectrum with plenty of opportunity to learn and develop.

• Location - Alicante
• Type of Telework - Hybrid Working
• Working hours - 39 hours.

Key Responsibilities:

• Optimise on-site Italian language content & ensuring it is accessible to search engines
• Work within our content marketing team to develop off-page campaigns
• Data driven investigation and analysis on link acquisition, including competitor analysis and exploiting opportunities to link-build via outreach activities
• Reporting organic performance to key stakeholders
• Develop strong relationships with fascia &channel managers to ensure SEO is front of mind

Competencies & Behaviours:

• Supporting & Co-operating:
  o Demonstrates an interest and an understanding of others
  o Adapts to the team and builds team spirit
  o Recognises and rewards the contribution of others
  o Listens, consults others and communicates proactively
  o Supports and cares for others
  o Develops and openly communicates self-insight such as an awareness of own strengths and weaknesse

•  Interacting presenting:
  o Establishes good relationships with suppliers, agencies and staff
  o Builds wide and effective networks of contacts inside and outside the organisation
  o Relates well to people at all levels
  o Manages conflict
  o Uses humour appropriately to enhance relationships with others

• Writing reporting:
  o Writes clearly, succinctly and correctly
  o Writes convincingly in an engaging and expressive manner
  o Avoids unnecessary use of jargon or complicated language
  o Writes in a well structured and logical way audience

• Learning and researching:
  o Rapidly learns new tasks and quickly commits information to memory
  o Gathers comprehensive information to support decision making
  o Demonstrates a rapid understanding of newly presented information
  o Encourages an organisational learning approach ( i.e. learns from success and failures and seeks staff and customer feedback)
  o Manages knowledge (collects, classifies, and disseminates knowledge of use to the organisation)

• Planning & Organising:
  o Sets clearly defined objectives
  o Plans activities and projects well- in advance and takes account of possible changing circumstances
  o Manages time effectively
  o Identifies and organises resources needed to accomplish tasks
  o Monitors performance against deadlines and milestones

Ideal Candidate:

• Native Italian language speaker (or highly proficient as second language)
• Good knowledge of on-page SEO
• Data-driven
• Understanding of Google Search Console, Google analytics, SEO tools such as (ahrefs/SEM Rush/SEO Monitor etc), & Screaming Frog. Experience using DeepCrawl, Supermetrics, Profound & Location Management software such as Yext/Rio etc is advantageous.
• Awareness of AI apps, tools and systems and how they might be leveraged for SEO purposes
• Good communications skills
• Passion for SEO, fashion & ecommerce
• Strong desire to learn

What we offer: 

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Hybrid Work
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Free Gym Facilities
• Flexible/optional benefits: restaurant ticket, transportation ticket, health insurance
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Continuous professional development in hard and soft skills
• And... much more!

The Company:

Since founded in 1981, JD Group has achieved remarkable growth through rapid global expansion. We have become the leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

At JD Group, we are all about finding passionate and skilled individuals who can elevate our team and have exceptional impact on the running of the business. We seek dynamic individuals who are invested in their own development, so that together we can evolve our brand's success, alongside evolving your career.

Join us in an exciting journey, where Talent meets Opportunity.

Interested?

If you are interested in this position,

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of you applying, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.