Ecommerce SEO Lead

London, England, United Kingdom

6/28/2025

Job Description

At Hearst UK, there’s always more to the story. Join us as our new Ecommerce SEO Lead to start the next chapter in your career.

We’re the UK’s leading premium publisher, and the people behind iconic media brands such as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and Country Living. We’ve created a working environment that encourages everyone to pull together. We never stop looking for brave new ideas. We’ll always try to develop and improve, we trust each other to do our best, and we have fun as we build on our heritage to make history.

About The Role

This role is responsible for ensuring all our digital brands (From Good Housekeeping to Runners World and Elle to Cosmo) are executing data-led and brand-appropriate SEO strategies to meet affiliate revenue targets. You will manage a team of two ecommerce SEO managers and be directly responsible for the ecommerce SEO success of one of our largest brands, Good Housekeeping. You will build close relationships with the digital leads of our main brands. You will never settle in your drive for growth.

• Work with your team, the brand editorial departments and the wider ecommerce team to ensure planning and implementation of successful SEO strategies across our digital brands.
• Ensure that all monthly content calendars are grounded in data, clear as to why we’re recommending things, and will have the maximum expected impact on revenue.
• Make sure that we plan for known shopping events such as Black Friday, Prime Day etc.
• Manage, mentor and develop the two team members, ensuring they are vocally driving forward the strategies day to day while enacting medium-term projects to drive further efficiencies or growth.
• Ensure that reporting is accurate, timely, delivers actionable insights and is used.
• Make sure that all SEO processes are optimised, documented and reliably followed.
• Anticipate and plan for technological and behavioural changes in search.
• Devise and deliver the ecommerce SEO strategy for one of our large brands, taking personal responsibility for ensuring it hits its affiliate revenue targets.
• Liaise with USA-based SEO colleagues.
• Drive efficiency and speed through AI process development.
  
  

About You

• Proven hands on experience of ecommerce/affiliate SEO and wide knowledge of ranking factors and SEO tools.
• Line management
• A commercial mind-set, consistently focused on driving revenues.
• Data analysis using more advanced spreadsheet functions, and the ability to turn the data into insights for a non-technical audience.
• Stakeholder relationships
• Excellent communication skills: verbal and written.
• Project management
• Strategic thinking
• Previous publisher experience desirable
  
  

What We Offer

At Hearst UK, you can choose from a huge range of perks and benefits that can help you learn well, work well and live well including:

• 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy up to 5 additional holiday days) - pro rated for part-time or fixed-term employees
• Hybrid working - 4 days a week in the office
• Discounted gym membership
• Healthcare cash plan
• Spend a charity day with your favourite good cause
• Life assurance and pension scheme
• Regular socials and more!
  
  

There’s more to your story than you imagine. And the next chapter begins right here.

Hearst UK is deeply committed to using our influential brands to reflect the world we want to live in – one that respects, protects, represents and uplifts the voices and opinions of all people. As a business, we recognise the significant benefits of creativity, collaboration and innovation that comes with diverse teams. Not only is diversifying the voices in our organization the right thing to do, but it also helps us to make powerful and exciting content that can be enjoyed by many more people. This is why we’re working to build a sense of true belonging within our business and foster a culture in which everyone feels heard.