Global Search Manager – CHO Herengracht Amsterdam | 40h
Key Skills
Job Description
Shape the future of e-commerce and digital marketing by joining our digital team! Bring your digital (marketing) expertise and entrepreneurial spirit to the table, and let's create exceptional omni-channel experiences together. Share your talents As Global Search Manager, you will shape how customers discover Rituals across paid, organic and emerging AI-driven search experiences. You will lead our search specialists and bring clear direction to a discipline where customer behaviour, technology and measurement are changing quickly. With paid search representing the largest part of your day-to-day scope, you will translate performance insights into focused choices across products, markets and budgets, while ensuring that paid and organic strategies strengthen each other. An important part of your impact will be building a continuous approach to incrementality testing, helping us understand the true additional value of our advertising investments and use those insights to make better decisions. You will also develop our strategy for agentic search, working closely with PR, Marketplaces, local markets and external partners such as Google and Microsoft. Based at our Central Head Office in Amsterdam, you will combine hands-on channel leadership with the opportunity to define the next chapter of search at Rituals. In This Role, You Will Lead, coach and develop the paid and organic search team, creating clear priorities and supporting specialists in their professional growth. Direct paid-search performance across products, countries and budgets, turning data into focused weekly priorities and informed investment decisions. Establish a continuous cadence of incrementality tests and use the findings to improve campaigns, budget allocation and the balance between paid and organic activity. Develop and activate our agentic-search strategy, helping Rituals remain visible as customers increasingly use chatbots and AI-driven search experiences. Build strong partnerships with local markets, PR, Marketplaces, Google, Microsoft and other stakeholders, providing clear advice while critically assessing platform recommendations. Bring all of you You are an experienced search professional who combines strong Google Ads expertise with a broader understanding of organic search and the customer journey. You are naturally curious about how search is evolving and enjoy translating new developments into practical opportunities. Data helps you make decisions, but you do not accept reported results at face value: you test assumptions, investigate what truly drives additional value and explain your conclusions clearly. As a people leader, you bring structure to a broad scope, set thoughtful priorities and help specialists perform at their best. You are equally comfortable discussing campaign details with the team, advising markets on their investments and challenging external partners when their recommendations do not serve our wider goals. To Be Successful In This Role, You Bring 6–9 years of relevant experience in search or digital marketing, including at least 2 years of experience leading, coaching or developing a small team. Have strong knowledge of Google Ads and can confidently guide specialists on campaign performance, optimisation priorities and investment choices. Use Excel and data analysis to recognise patterns, challenge assumptions and translate complex performance results into clear recommendations. Understand how paid and organic search influence each other; experience with incrementality testing, attribution, marketing mix modelling or Channable is a plus. Combine strong stakeholder management with a critical and commercially aware mindset, communicating effectively with specialists, markets and external partners. At Rituals, we are committed to care for everyone and strive to create a diverse workplace where all employees belong and have equal opportunities to succeed. Read more about our commitment here https://careers.rituals.com/en-NL/work-with-heart-and-soul/diversity-and-inclusion/. We believe in the value of in-person collaboration and teamwork. Therefore, we work predominantly from the office. The Next Steps Are Apply via our website. Our recruiter will contact you within 10 working days. A first interview follows in our Central Head Office in Amsterdam. You do an online assessment. You have the second interview. In the event of a positive outcome, you will receive a proposal with the terms of employment. Benefits of working at Rituals Unique opportunities for personal and professional growth Staff discount on Rituals products Attractive bonus Flexible working hours tailored to your personal rhythm Company & team events
Core Responsibilities
Lead and develop the paid and organic search team, directing paid-search performance, investment decisions, and ongoing incrementality testing across products and markets. Develop Rituals’ agentic-search strategy and collaborate with local markets, PR, Marketplaces, and external partners to improve search visibility and performance.
Requirements
Candidates should have 6–9 years of relevant search or digital marketing experience, including at least 2 years leading, coaching, or developing a small team, and strong Google Ads expertise. They should be skilled in data analysis and Excel, understand the relationship between paid and organic search, and bring strong stakeholder management and commercial judgment; experience with incrementality testing, attribution, marketing mix modeling, or Channable is a plus.
Benefits
- Personal And Professional Growth Opportunities
- Staff Discount On Rituals Products
- Bonus
- Flexible Working Hours
- Company And Team Events
About Rituals (B Corp™)
Industry: Personal Care Product Manufacturing
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Founded in 2000 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Rituals was the first luxury brand to combine home and body products. To date, we've opened 1000 stores in 36 countries and have become a renowned wellbeing destination. Led by our philosophy, The Art of Soulful Living, we're committed to helping consumers on their journey to personal wellbeing, providing tips, inspiration and products to reconnect body, mind and soul. As a certified B Corp™ we believe in sustainable wellbeing, with collections that are good for people and good for the planet. This is supported by our three pillars: Clean, Conscious, and Caring. Clean: 79% of our personal care products contain >90% natural origin ingredients, and by 2023 all formulas will meet this standard. Conscious: we make sustainable choices; every collection has refill options, and we plant, protect, or restore a tree for every refill sold. Caring: we proudly support social initiatives including Tiny Miracles, a pioneering foundation that helps break the poverty cycle by providing life-changing work for underserved communities in Mumbai, India. This philosophy of sustainable wellbeing is embedded into our company culture. Our people are open minded, customer first oriented, and energetic. If you want to hear more, then keep an eye out on our vacancies, and we hope to have you join us in our offices or stores.