Xbridge Background
This is an excellent opportunity to join the UKs leading online finance and insurance business aimed at the small business market. Simply Business helps thousands of businesses every day to find the best financing and insurance to suit their needs. You can see the site in action at: www.simplybusiness.co.uk.
Simply Business is a part of Xbridge Ltd, Europes leading provider of business finance and insurance platforms to the banking and insurance industries. Xbridge works with 3 out of the 4 UK High St banks and the 2 of the largest UK insurers, providing infrastructure and online marketing consultancy.
This is a brand new position within the analysis and search team suitable for a recent graduate with a good understanding of the online environment.
Working primarily with the Search Engine Marketing Manager and the Pay Per Click Manager you will be working on projects to enhance natural search rankings through building content, tools and promoting sites to third parties as well as supporting PPC activities and online conversion optimisation.
Position: Search Marketing Assistant
You will be a highly motivated and professional person. You will be good at seeing projects through to completion. You will have good project management skills. You will be patient and good at dealing with members of the business teams. You will be good at interpreting numbers to help make business decisions. You will be a quick learner and good at adapting to new situations.
The role mainly involves:
Natural Search Optimisation
Managing and promoting new content
Research new keywords
Monitor blogs, message boards and social networks
Analysis and reporting
Monitoring keyword rankings
Online conversion optimisation
Work with marketing and design to produce new landing pages
Methodical approach to allow analysis of results
Use of best of breed tools such as Omniture Sitecatalyst
Work with the business analysts to understand how to improve conversion on a segment by segment basis of our potential customer pool
Pay Per Click Search Marketing
Assist in day to day management of accounts
Produce reports to business teams and management
Help increase ROI of all campaigns
Research keyword lists and work on creatives for all major search engines
Benchmarking our competitors PPC behaviour
Identifying click fraud and low quality sources of traffic
Required Experience
Degree in business, marketing or technology based subject
Good knowledge of Excel
Experience of web analytics desirable (Google Analytics, Omniture, Webtrends)
Compensation / package
Base up to £20 - £25k, commensurate with experience
Quarterly performance based-bonus
Excellent company benefits including comprehensive private health plan
Please email your CV to our Human Resources department at careers@xbridge.com or fax it to 020 7920 8088. Please include cover letter and expected salary.
Recruitment Agents are not invited to contact us regarding these or future roles. Thank you.