SEO Freelancer (Consultant/Director level)

If you’re an accomplished SEO professional with agency experience and some exposure to big travel sites, this is an exceptional freelance SEO Consultant opportunity where you’ll focus on a UK based client for an overseas agency.

Our client is an Australian technical performance marketing agency, existing to solve tough problems in the marketing of global enterprise companies. Applying their engineering mindset to complex marketing situations, they deliver a scalable performance that generates an exponential return on investment for their clients.

It’s been over 10 years since clockworkTalent first recruited for this agency, and we’re proud to recognise one of our early hires grew into becoming the agency’s CEO! We’re looking to replicate that quality hire, onboarding a part-time accomplished SEO Director for the EU region.

THE ROLE

Reporting to the Global Head of SEO, as SEO Consultant, you’ll be responsible for leading and managing SEO projects for an enterprise client. This is an 80 hours per month contract, flexing upto 100 hrs per month.

You’ll be the primary client-facing SEO expert for the region, ensuring seamless strategy execution and project oversight. You’ll have direct communication with client stakeholders both virtually and in person (your client travel expenses are covered, don’t worry). You’ll coordinate with an existing network of flex-time Content Editors in the EU, ensuring content aligns with SEO best practices and client objectives. You should also be able to handle various aspects of SEO execution when needed. 

Accomplished in SEO, you’ll draw on your skills to develop and implement your SEO strategies tailored to each client. As such, you’ll utilise and lead your team of 20+ freelancers (already in place). You’ll competently oversee full-cycle SEO initiatives, from technical audits to content optimisation and authority building. You’ll win trust from your stakeholders, providing SEO insights and recommendations, and ensuring they understand the value and impact of your work. Your passion for keeping ahead of the industry curve will help you identify and implement automation opportunities that improve efficiency. You’ll also confidently recommend and oversee improvements in website architecture, internal linking, page speed, structured data and crawl efficiency. Whilst working independently as the agency’s lead for the EU region, you’ll be reporting and in close partnership with the team across Asia and Australia.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL

• A seasoned SEO professional, you’ll bring at least 6 years in SEO and 2 years of recent agency experience
• Bring a proven track record of delivering results across various industries.Travel experience is a significant advantage
• Strong experience in handling large websites (with more than 100k pages)
• Proven experience overseeing six-figure monthly client budgets, ensuring strategic allocation and financial accountability
• Proactively identifies, develops, and pitches new sales opportunities within the region to drive business growth and market expansion.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Using OpenAI or similar platforms to work smarter, not harder.
• Industry tools like Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, SEMrush, OpenAI, Gemini and AI-driven SEO platforms.
• Proactive, innovative, and eager to stay ahead of evolving SEO trends, including AI-powered search and emerging search platforms.
• Strong communication skills, capable of presenting complex SEO concepts to clients and internal teams.
• A strategic thinker who understands how SEO contributes to the overall marketing mix and business growth.

LOCATION

Work from home in the UK, you’ll already have permit to work in the UK in place and be comfortable working from home/remotely. Note the core of this agency are Australia/Asia based, so it’ll be ideal for some cross over in the working day with the global team (don’t worry they won’t ask for a 3am call, they’re reasonable in their catchups and the agency’s client is in the UK.)

BENEFITS

Let’s hear from existing employees on why they chose to work with this team:

• Good management team that creates growth opportunities, embodies company values, and understands people’s pain points.
• A nice, dedicated, supportive (and funny) team with years of experience, therefore, really good at what they’re doing.
• Flexibility in working hours, working location, no micromanaging, and you can take full ownership of your work.
• No politics, no bullsh!t.
• Very good processes, clear expectations.

If you’re ready to apply your significant SEO experience and you’ve capacity for upto 80 hours a month, apply using the form below quoting job ref 1001524 or email your CV to natasha@clockworktalent.com quoting job ref 1001524.

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Who are clockworkTalent?

A long time ago, Natasha noticed a distinct lack of quality of service and depth of technical knowledge from the digital marketing industry’s specialist Recruiters. She’d independently helped both of her brothers’ digital agencies brief their recruiters, and knew it could be so much better.

So in 2012, clockworkTalent was born!

Since then, we’ve developed into a small but specialist recruitment agency trusted by exceptional businesses like Bridebook, Buddycare and Learning With Experts to hire digital marketing talent into their teams. Irrespective of whether you’re job seeking or hiring, we consult with you to understand what’s important, hand-hold you throughout the process and share our expertise with you along the way.

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