Role: Search Engine Marketing Manager
The team: Digital Marketing
Our office: Winton House, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2RW – close to bus and rail links.
Contract type: Permanent, 35 hours per week
Salary: £TBD
About Click Dealer
Click Dealer has been supporting the automotive industry for over 20 years, providing SaaS solutions to independent used car and van dealerships, including websites, dealer management systems and digital marketing services. We’re proud of our award-winning reputation and the people-focused culture behind it.
Our team members — known as Clickers — are central to our success. We want everyone to feel valued, supported and encouraged to keep learning, developing and doing great work.
The role
Are you an experienced digital marketing leader who enjoys combining data, strategy and team management to deliver meaningful growth? Click Dealer is looking for a Search Engine Marketing Manager to join our Digital Marketing team and help drive both paid and organic performance for our clients across the automotive sector.
This is a brilliant opportunity for someone with strong technical SEO and PPC knowledge, a proven track record of improving rankings, organic traffic and paid campaign performance, and experience supporting or managing a team. You'll play a key role in shaping both SEO and PPC strategy, translating insight into action, and ensuring our clients see clear, measurable results.
In this role, you'll lead the planning and delivery of SEO and PPC activity for our clients, using data and insight to identify opportunities, make recommendations and deliver improvements across technical SEO, on-page optimisation, keyword strategy, content and link-building activity, as well as paid search campaign strategy, bid management and account optimisation.
You'll line manage and develop two of our SEO and PPC specialists and work with content colleagues and client-facing teams, supporting workload planning, quality of delivery and team development.
You'll also communicate progress clearly to clients, turning performance data into practical, commercially useful insight.
As search marketing continues to evolve, you'll stay close to industry trends, search updates and best practice across both organic and paid, helping the team keep our approach fresh, effective and results-focused.
About you
- Experience in a line management role within SEO and PPC
- A proven track record of delivering organic search growth and generating quality leads through paid search for clients
- Confident written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain performance and recommendations clearly
- Strong organisation skills, with the ability to prioritise, multitask and meet deadlines
- Experience using tools such as Google Analytics, Search Console and Tag Manager
- Knowledge of the automotive industry (beneficial)
What we offer
Click Dealer offers a welcoming, collaborative environment where contribution is recognised, wellbeing matters and career development is actively encouraged.
We know that you have a life outside of work with your own needs and desires - we put real value on inclusivity and people’s wellbeing.
You can expect:
- Flexible working environment – whether you prefer being in our office or would rather work predominantly at home, we can support flexible working arrangements.
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with service level. We encourage our team to book their holidays and take a break!
- Wellbeing plan, including an Employee Assistance Programme. Our plan offers a range of services, including: a virtual GP service, 24/7 help line, and help with optical & dental costs.
- Training & Development – we want to support our Clickers with growth and upskilling. If there’s an opportunity you’re interested in, we are all ears!
Pay: £28,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
Application question(s):
- Will you now or in the future require visa sponsorship for the role that you have applied to?
- Do you have experience in a line management role within SEO?
- Do you have a proven track record of growing organic traffic and improving search rankings for clients?
- Do you have strong knowledge of SEO best practice, including technical SEO, on-page optimisation, keyword research and link building?
- Do you have any experience using tools such as Google Analytics, Search Console and Tag Manager?
- Do you have an understanding of PPC marketing principles?
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2RW
