Cms Consultant

Company Description:
Merkle is a leading data-driven, technology-enabled, global performance marketing agency that specialises in the delivery of unique, personalised customer experiences across platforms and devices. We call it ‘people-based’ marketing, and with over 25 years’ experience, we are proud to be recognised as a global leader.

Merkle’s heritage in data, technology and analytics is the foundation for our understanding of consumer insights that drives our people-based marketing strategies. Combined with our expertise in performance creative and media, we can then offer our clients content-driven, contextual and compelling customer experiences that drive business growth.

In 2016, the agency joined dentsu, one of the world’s biggest media companies to form the Customer Experience Management (CXM) Line of Business.

**Job Description**:
Merkle sit in the sweet spot between consultancy, creative agencies, and the typical system integrators. Our projects focus heavily on Customer Experience Management which has seen huge growth over the past 12 months.

Within Merkle, the Experience Platform team create content managed customer experiences for a wide range of clients. Our solutions allow clients to operate content and experience management processes efficiently, maximise the capabilities of their tools and the investments they make, while unlocking potential for future growth of their digital maturity.

We span a number of technologies but our primary tool is Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). We are globally renowned and have Platinum Partner status with Adobe. Our AEM projects typically include new Sites and Assets implementations integrating with Adobe Commerce, Launch and Analytics, Campaign and Target. Over the past few years, we have also designed and implemented some truly innovative projects across the Adobe Experience Cloud.
**Life as CMS Consultant**

We are looking for a CMS Consultant to work on site implementation and enhancement projects. You will work side by side with the User Experience design team, strategic leads, technical architects, and development teams.

Your role will be to drive the successful shaping and translation of objectives and requirements into epics and detailed user stories for development. As part of this you will be responsible for designing and defining solutions to best deliver for our client and their customers with the technology platforms we use.

You will often work across the project lifecycle; from early workshops, through the design process, within development scrum teams and finally supporting client handover and training. Our engagements vary in size, so you should be comfortable in large teams as well as directly leading and managing development teams, removing blockers and providing in-sprint clarity and solutions.

The role works with internal and external stakeholders - as such you will need to prepare and present materials for our clients.

This role requires a strong knowledge of the considerations which go into building web experiences and how they are configured through a web content management system. Data is at the heart of what we do, so a good understanding of data design is beneficial particularly in consideration of metadata and taxonomy tagging and how it can drive automation at scale.

You will have had experience with a number of site projects built on content management systems.

Qualifications:
**What we're looking for in you**
- Required_
- 5 years minimum experience in Digital Roles managing website operations and enhancements
- Experience with managing an enterprise level CMS - Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) beneficial
- Defining content management requirements as well as end-user requirements
- Scoping bodies of work with team members across digital disciplines
- Working with development teams to deliver enhancements
- Understanding of key principles of User Experience Design
- Beneficial_
- Understanding of SEO, Accessibility and web analytics;
- Experience of digital asset management;
- Creating and running training of implemented solutions;
- Some background in web development (HTML, CSS, JS) or back-end programming languages;
- Working with large data sets for standardisation/rationalisation - taxonomies and tagging beneficial;
- Presenting and communicating benefits and opportunities to senior stakeholders;
- Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to articulate recommendations.

Additional Information:
**A few of the benefits**

Whether it’s the joy of working with people at the top of their game or the Merkle social calendar, people love working here - and we hope you will too
- Attractive and competitive salary.
- Spanish/English lessons.
- Free life and health insurance.
- Career development through Merkle University and LinkedIn Learning.
- Day off in your birthday
- Reduced fee in Andjoy
- 2 volunteering days per annum
- Flexible salary remuneration scheme.- As part of our Diversity and Inclusion