Manager, SEO

**TITLE** Manager, SEO
**DEPARTMENT** Earned Media
**DIVISION** NP Digital - Malaysia
**LOCATION** Hybrid - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

**ABOUT OUR COMPANY**

NP Digital (NPD) is a global award-winning performance marketing agency. In 2024 Campaign Magazine labeled us the Global Agency of the Year in two categories, and The Drum awarded us the Agency Business Award for Global Development. Google recently handed us the Agency Excellence Award for Media Unification and AdAge listed us on their Best Places to Work list in 2024 and 2025.

NP Digital combines proprietary platforms with best-in-class talent to deliver leading edge experiences centered around: paid and organic search, social, content, retargeting, performance display, feed management and conversion rate optimization.

NP Digital focuses on creating innovative, adaptive, and data-driven digital marketing plans for our clients. Obsessed with helping companies grow and exceed their goals, NP Digital delivers on the mission of continually helping brands connect and engage with their audience.

SearchGuru, a division of NP Digital, provides search marketing services in Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong with over 130 marketing experts, arguably making it the largest performance marketing agency in Southeast Asia, working with the top brands.

Our strength comes from our diverse specialists who go above and beyond to execute effective strategies that marry creative and media. We are SearchGuru because we’re searching for knowledge — knowledge that allows us to be better performance marketers to benefit our clients.

**ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY**

The SEO Manager will drive not only daily account responsibilities associated with Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, and Google Analytics, and using third-party SEO tools such as Yoast, SEMRush, and Screaming Frog, but important business outcomes for SearchGuru clients.

**ABOUT THE RESPONSIBILITIES**

Reporting to the SEO Director, the SEO Manager will be responsible for determining and executing best in class SEO strategies, perform SEO audits and drive the implementation roadmap of on-page, technical & off-page optimisation, to drive key business outcomes for clients.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Serve as a point of escalation for SEO strategy and has a proven track record of fixing various types of SEO issues (e.g. Google penalty, hacked, multi-country, e-commerce, multilingual, technical and heavily complicated sites)
- Collaborate & lead client's requests professionally
- Able to customize a unique plan that caters to different conditions
- Proactively collaborate with the Client Services team to re-prioritize as needed throughout the campaign based on clients' shifting needs and changes in business priorities
- Present data-driven reports
- Monitor all aspects of a project and provide updates to internal teams on a timely basis
- Train junior & senior SEO Specialists
- Assist in Resource Planning internally and externally
- Create SEO proposals to support sales pitching
- Govern the department functions and help to push for growth aligned with internal KPIs
- Constantly generate sustainable unique values & competitive advantages to the department
- Envision new possibilities to increase the department revenue

**ABOUT YOU**
- At least 5 years of leadership, consultative, SEO execution experience in an agency or corporate setting
- Proven SEO track record for accounts handled
- Experienced with handling different types of clients, niches, and internal team issues
- Passion for building long lasting client relationships across various industries and verticals
- Strong analytical skills with a data driven approach
- Ability to extract trends and insights from complex data sets
- Ability to commute daily to Mid Valley Office (post-pandemic) and is effective and comfortable to support Work-From-Home mode
- Excellent command of spoken and written English

**ABOUT YOUR GROWTH**

As an organization we support your growth and development by investing in your learning to advance your career. We believe in empowering you to showcase your knowledge and skills to win together.

**ABOUT OUR BENEFITS**
- Competitive remuneration, performance incentives and substantial perks, including wellbeing benefits (gym membership, Spotify subscription, health checks, etc.)
- Comprehensive outpatient & medical benefits on top of great insurance coverage
- Extensive annual leave entitlement (Birthday, marriage, maternity, paternity, paid sabbatical leave)
- Positive and supportive leadership
- A work culture that drives teamwork and collaboration
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
- Unbiased work culture from top to bottom to encourage and push you to #DreamBig
- Fun employee engagement activities & parties, annual dinners and company trips
- Strategic office location that’s easily accessible by public transportation
- Work among experts and specialists in a company with years of experience in the