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Support Centre · Marketing · Globe Centre Accrington - Central Support

Technical SEO Specialist

Own technical SEO across leading sleep brands, turning site improvements into organic growth across search and AI. Partner with product and development teams and build your career with Be...

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

Division
Support Centre
Department
Marketing
Role
Digital SEO Content Coordinator
Location
Globe Centre Accrington - Central Support
Full or Part Time
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Weekly Hours
37.5
Annual Salary
40000
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About Bensons for Beds

At Bensons for Beds, we’re driven by one purpose - to help more people get a better night’s sleep. And with 70 years in retail, and 100 years in manufacturing, we’ve got plenty of experience in making this mission a reality.

Support Centre · Marketing · Globe Centre Accrington - Central Support

Technical SEO Specialist

Own technical SEO across leading sleep brands, turning site improvements into organic growth across search and AI. Partner with product and development teams and build your career with Be...

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