Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: 12 months, with potential to extend
Work Set Up: Hybrid, 2-3 days per week in-office
Working hours: 40 hours per week. This role follows UK business hours (typically 9:00–17:30 UK time), which is approximately 11:00–19:30 South Africa time depending on daylight savings.
We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking SEO Team Lead to take ownership of global organic search and generative search strategy. This role will oversee the SEO roadmap, manage a team of 3 specialists, and ensure high-quality execution across technical SEO, content optimisation, authority building, and emerging areas such as AI-powered search and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO). The successful candidate will play a key role in optimising content, site structure, and technical foundations for both traditional search engines and evolving generative search experiences within a complex enterprise environment.
What you will do:
- Lead and line manage the SEO team, providing coaching, feedback, and day-to-day guidance
- Translate SEO strategy into clear, actionable plans and drive delivery across global workstreams
- Oversee technical SEO, content optimisation, authority building, and GEO execution
- Review team and agency output to ensure quality, accuracy, and adherence to best practices
- Manage external SEO agency relationships, including briefing, prioritisation, quality control, and delivery tracking
- Drive AI search and generative engine optimisation initiatives, aligning structured data and content to emerging search behaviours
- Coordinate with Technology, Product, Content, and Web Publishing teams to embed SEO requirements into roadmaps and releases
- Monitor SEO performance and reporting workflows, summarising insights and trends for senior stakeholders
- Support major initiatives such as site migrations and platform updates, managing risk and ensuring smooth execution
- Maintain and improve SEO processes, documentation, templates, and ways of working to enhance efficiency and delivery quality