Lead SEO Manager
| Posting date: | 20 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 17 December 2025 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/18007699/970032 |
Summary
About the role
Tesco Online is made up of a growing portfolio of businesses including the biggest online grocer in the UK and one of the largest in the world. Digital growth is core to Tesco\'s future strategy and scaling propositions such as Whoosh and Marketplace are allowing customers access to new and exciting products and services online. As the Lead SEO Manager, you will be responsible for developing and implementing effective search engine optimisation strategies to drive organic traffic and further improve Tesco\'s online share of voice in the market. You will own the SEO budget and work closely with our agency partners to spot new opportunties, as well as optimising the SEO fundamentals to aid agentic discovery.
You will be responsible for
- Leading all operational aspects of SEO at Tesco, including driving share of voice across all Online businesses.
- Support the discovery of Local SEO strategy through the Tesco store estate.
- Owning the SEO budget and carefully forecasting, monitoring and optimising spend into the most impactful areas to generate return for Tesco.
- Driving and owning the SEO roadmap into Technology teams to drive organic traffic.
- Partner with Trading and Product teams to apply SEO best practices to content pages, taxonomy and copy across website and app to drive discoverability.
- Driving strategic thinking in the AI space for the Customer function, whilst closely partnering with our Technology teams to combine future strategy.
- Identifying high value recommendations from our agencies and developing internal business cases to drive implementation.
- Conducting competitors analyses and market research to identify trends that Tesco can capitlise upon now and into the future.
- Lead with strong data and reporting to help internal teams optimise and plan their execution trading cycles.
- Lead and coach a SEO Executive to develop within role and beyond.
You will need
- 5+ years working in a SEO focused role, either in agency or in house.
- Extensive experience of SEO management on large scale ecommerce websites.
- Strong Technical SEO background and principles.
- Deep agentic AI thinking - perspective and strategic planning for Tesco and the customer.
- Understanding of SEO tools, e.g. Google Search Console and broader tracking / crawling tools.
- Strong reporting and analytics navigation, both SEO tools and broader analytics, e.g. Adobe and Google Analytics
- Ownership of budget lines into multiple agencies.
- Team management and leadership / coaching of SEO experts.
- Passion for ecommerce and online trading.
What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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