Expert Search Engine Optimization (SEO) (all genders)

Company Description

We Are Wholesale. We turn opportunities into results, shaping the future of wholesale.

At METRO, we’re more than a global food wholesaler. We are ONE METRO: a diverse team of over 85,000 colleagues across more than 30 countries, united by one mission: enabling our 15 million customers to create meaningful moments in hospitality and independent trade.  

We shape the M with passion, commitment, and growth mindset. This means taking on responsibility, making our company your company and creating a business together that remains true to its roots but always seeks new solutions.  

Job Description

As a SEO Expert you will bring on SEO solution expertise in projects for effective delivery of broad milestones as well as micro level tasks in projects. This is a role which will interact with product owners and will work closely with the in-house editorial team, from strategy to execution, to make sure that both technical and content related goals are achieved. This involves acting as the subject matter expert and internal consultant for all SEO-related inquiries, championing best practices, and driving qualified organic traffic to increase online revenue from search channels across all countries we operate in.

• Define requirements, tasks, and resources associated with the SEO strategy.
• Monitor algorithm updates by search engines to keep up to date with best practices.
• Provide recommendations for content development in coordination with SEO goals, both general and keyword-specific.
• Provide recommendations and execute strategies for technical SEO topics, including internal linking, crawling, indexation, and rendering.
• Continue ongoing technical SEO projects and push them for further development.
• Initiate cross-team projects to ensure SEO best practices are properly implemented.
• Monitor and evaluate web analytics dashboards and contribute to their development.
• Monitor and evaluate search results and search performance across major search channels.
• Analyze competitor SEO strategies to identify threats and opportunities.
• Develop and manage the international SEO strategy and country-specific optimizations.
• Create and present regular performance reports to stakeholders, translating complex data into actionable insights.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Technical Search Engine Optimization.
• Demonstrable experience managing SEO for large, multi-country, and multi-language websites.
• Proven track record of developing and executing successful technical SEO and content strategies.
• Experience working in an in-house capacity within a large, matrixed organization.
• History of successful collaboration with product, engineering, and content teams.
• Holds a degree in marketing, communications, business, computer science, or a related field, though a formal degree is not always required.
• Understands technical SEO concepts like site audits, indexing, page speed optimization, and basic HTML/CSS.
• Native German speaker.
• Uses SEO tools including Google Analytics, Google Search Console, SEMrush, Ahrefs, Moz, and Screaming Frog.

Additional Information

• Work-life balance: Flexible working hours with the option of mobile working in agreement with your line manager, 30 days of holidays.
• Training: A comprehensive training offer via our own training center or externally.
• Well-being: Health days with lots of health checks and information about your well-being, company medical care including a range of preventive services, such as flu shots, OTHEB employee assistance program.
• Exciting life on campus: Free gym and sports classes, Rioba coffee bar, canteen with discounted meals for employees, many campus events.
• Discounts: discounted Jobticket as well as discounts in our wholesale stores and at many partner companies.
• Comfort: Good transport connections, free parking spaces, JobBike. 
• Company pension plan: You will receive a contribution to your company pension.
• Family driven: Three daycare centers for children on campus, support of holiday camps for children of employees.
• Ready to build what’s next? Find us at careers.metroag.de and follow us on Instagram (@metro_careers) and Linkedin (@METRO/makro).