Technical SEO Specialist
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Technical SEO Specialist
Location: The Globe - Accrington Contract: Permanent – Full time Salary: £40,000 per annum
We're looking for a commercially minded Technical SEO Specialist to make Bensons for Beds technically capable of winning in organic and AI-powered search (Google, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini). You'll own the technical foundations across bensonsforbeds.co.uk, stores subdomain and eve Sleep: crawling, indexation, rendering, structured data, local SEO and AI accessibility. You'll prioritise work by the organic traffic and revenue it can unlock. Working day to day with Digital Product, Development, Digital Trading and Ops, you'll partner closely with our Senior SEO & AI Lead. They set what we should win in search, and you make sure we're technically capable of winning it.
What You'll Be Doing
Owning the technical SEO roadmap across our websites, prioritised by incremental organic traffic and revenue opportunity.
Running technical audits and turning findings into clear, commercially prioritised development tickets.
Managing crawling, indexation, sitemaps, robots.txt, canonicals, redirects and site migrations.
Partnering with Development so every release is SEO-safe: briefing requirements, testing in staging and checking after go-live.
Owning structured data and AI accessibility so our content is readable by AI crawlers.
Setting up alerts and resolving technical issues quickly to protect organic performance.
Jointly managing local SEO, including Google Business Profile and Apple Business Connect via Yext.
Providing technical forecasts, effort sizing and commentary for SEO reporting and business cases.
What We're Looking For
2-3+ years' hands-on technical SEO experience, ideally on a large ecommerce or retail site, or in an agency environment.
Strong knowledge of crawling, indexation, JavaScript rendering, redirects, migrations and structured data.
Hands-on experience with Lumar, or similar, plus Google Search Console and GA4.
Experience working in agile sprints and writing dev tickets with clear acceptance criteria.
Able to prioritise by commercial impact and explain technical issues clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
Comfortable with log file analysis, AI crawler and AI search optimisation, Core Web Vitals, SEO testing,
Yext or SEMrush experience desirable
Why Join Us?
We believe in providing an environment where our people can develop, succeed and build rewarding careers. In return, we offer:
Competitive salary and benefits package
Supportive and inclusive working environment
Opportunities for professional development, training and career progression
Access to industry-leading technology and development programmes
Life Assurance and pension contributions
Flexible and collaborative working arrangements where applicable
Additional company-wide benefits and employee perks
Qualifications
- 2-3+ years' hands-on technical SEO experience, ideally on a large ecommerce or retail site, or in an agency environment.
- Strong knowledge of crawling, indexation, JavaScript rendering, redirects, migrations and structured data.
- Hands-on experience with Lumar, or similar, plus Google Search Console and GA4.
- Experience working in agile sprints and writing dev tickets with clear acceptance criteria.
- Able to prioritise by commercial impact and explain technical issues clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfortable with log file analysis, AI crawler and AI search optimisation, Core Web Vitals, SEO testing,
- Yext or SEMrush experience desirable
- Why Join Us?
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Supportive and inclusive working environment
- Opportunities for professional development, training and career progression
- Access to industry-leading technology and development programmes
- Life Assurance and pension contributions
- Flexible and collaborative working arrangements where applicable
- Additional company-wide benefits and employee perks
About Bensons for Beds
UK bed retailer selling beds, mattresses, bedroom furniture and bedding to customers through stores and online.
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