Senior Web Design Executive

VetPartners Limited; York and North Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading veterinary services company is looking for a skilled digital project manager to oversee website builds and improvements across their practice network. You will manage multiple projects, ensuring usability and accessibility while collaborating with internal teams and external agencies. The ideal candidate has experience with WordPress and a solid grasp of UX and SEO best practices. This role offers hybrid working and a supportive culture focused on development and collaboration.

Benefits

Hybrid working structure

Opportunities for professional development

Collaborative team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in building and managing websites using a leading CMS, preferably WordPress.
• Ability to handle multiple projects and priorities effectively.
• Solid understanding of UX and SEO best practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple website builds and updates across practice and corporate sites.
• Maintain sites within WordPress Multisite focused on usability and accessibility.
• Coordinate with Digital Marketing team and external agencies to deliver projects.

Skills

WordPress management

Project management

UX understanding

SEO knowledge

Communication

Tools

Jira

Asana

Google Analytics

Google Search Console

Job description

About the role

Reporting to our Head of Digital, you’ll play a key role in building, maintaining and improving the VetPartners website estate. This includes new site builds, launches and ongoing updates across around 200 practice websites.

You’ll balance hands‑on web build work with strong project management, working closely with internal teams, external agencies and practice stakeholders. Your work will directly support practices and delivery of a great online experience for their clients.

What you’ll be doing

• Project manage multiple website builds, updates and change requests across our practice and corporate sites.
• Building and maintaining sites within our WordPress Multisite CMS, focused on usability, accessibility and conversion.
• Working closely with our web agency and internal Digital Marketing team to deliver projects smoothly and on time.
• Coordinating activity across the wider Digital team and supporting the development of junior colleagues.
• Supporting European Marketing teams to transition practices onto the group website platform.
• Applying UX, design and technical best practice to solve common website challenges.
• Writing and maintaining meta data, image alt tags, and supporting light SEO activity and UX testing.
• Recommending ways to track and improve website engagement and performance.

What we’re looking for

• Experience building and managing websites using a leading CMS, ideally WordPress (Multisite experience is a plus).
• Confidence managing multiple projects and priorities at the same time.
• A solid understanding of UX, SEO and web best practice.
• Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Asana or similar.
• Clear, confident communication skills and strong attention to detail.

Nice to have

• Experience working with Google Analytics and Google Search Console.
• Exposure to A/B testing or conversion optimisation.
• Relevant digital or web certifications.

We care more about what you can do than where you learned it. If you meet most of the essentials, we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits

• Hybrid and flexible working, minimum 2 days per week in our York head office.
• The chance to work at scale, supporting hundreds of practices and real‑world communities.
• A collaborative Digital Marketing team that values sharing knowledge and learning together.
• Opportunities to develop your skills and take on broader responsibility.
• A supportive, values‑led culture where people are trusted to do their best work.

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of background, identity or circumstance. If you need adjustments at any stage of the process, just let us know and we’ll do our best to support you. We’re open to flexible working patterns and happy to discuss what works for you. If this sounds like a great place to apply your skills, we'd welcome an Application, through the link, ideally with reference to a portfolio showing relevant website work. We look forward to hearing from you.