Performance Marketing Executive - FTC

This role blends Organic and Paid, fuelling sustainable traffic growth across Pizza Express through smart SEO and performance‑driven thinking.

As our Performance Marketing Executive, you’ll be the engine behind our organic performance. You’ll own the day‑to‑day SEO activity, championing improvements in keyword rankings, organic sessions, click‑through rate and conversion. You’ll be the go‑to internal partner for our external SEO agency, making sure every initiative aligns with business goals and delivers measurable results.

• Lead the day‑to‑day relationship with our SEO agency – prioritising activity, managing the technical, content and local SEO roadmap, and ensuring every initiative supports wider business and transformation goals.
• Bring teams together across the business to action recommendations quickly and effectively.
• Use our SEO platform (via the agency) to uncover data, insights, opportunities and clear reporting.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with Google, Bing, Yext and AI partners to stay ahead of the latest organic trends and best practice.

• Experience in SEO, digital marketing or content optimisation.
• Background working with or within an SEO agency (highly desirable).
• Confidence analysing data and performance using tools like Google Analytics, Search Console and SEMrush.
• Understanding of core technical SEO principles: crawlability, indexing, redirects, duplicate content, page speed.
• Clear communication skills to manage agencies, influence stakeholders and explain SEO concepts in a simple, engaging way.

At Pizza Express, we’re all about good food, good times and being our true selves - just like Peter Boizot intended when he opened our first Soho pizzeria in 1965. His bold spirit, love of real Italian pizza and passion for people shaped who we are today: one team, keeping things simple, putting our customers first and growing together. Peter’s legacy lives on in every slice we serve and every warm welcome we give.

Cheers, Peter.