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eCommerce Trading Lead - Home Brands
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eCommerce Trading Lead
We are looking for an eCommerce Trading Lead to join our eCommerce UK Trading team, focusing on! Based from NEXT Head Office in Enderby, Leicestershire.
As an eCommerce Trading Lead, you will play a key part in bringing the brand's product to life on the website and championing the customer for yorkie partner brands.
You will work closely with different teams across eCommerce, product and the wider business - using these great relationships to drive forward marketing and customer experience on site - always ensuring everything we do is commercial.
What You’ll Take On
- Act as the key representative for home brands, managing your assigned brands like an independent business to optimise sales performance.
- Set and drive the commercial strategy for your branded trading areas, taking primary accountability for daily trading.
- Monitor key performance metrics (such as conversion, traffic, sales, and funnel drop-offs) on a brand level to deliver weekly trading insights to stakeholders.
- Plan engaging marketing campaigns covering owned channel marketing and working with paid marketing teams.
- Maintain strong relationships with internal product teams and direct brand partners through regular updates and meetings.
- Advocate for your brands within the eCommerce team to drive growth across Next’s UK site and Total Platform (TP) websites.
- Champion the customer journey by translating technical product specifications into engaging, customer friendly language.
- Propose data-driven optimisation ideas and testing strategies (such as sort orders, navigation, and marketing campaigns) to boost conversion.
- Conduct regular market research to analyse competitor brand activity and ensure the eCommerce site remains highly competitive.
- Demonstrate strong analytical skills, experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and third-party vendors, and proficiency with eCommerce platforms and analytics tools.
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What You’ll Bring
Some key skills and attributes that would make you successful in this role:
- Previous experience of working within an eCommerce Fashion/Home/Beauty Trading role.
- A sharp commercial eye and a genuine passion for Fashion and Home trends.
- Analytical mindset to turn performance stats into smart commercial moves, paired with a creative spark and interest in marketing to get customers excited.
- Thorough and organised under pressure - able to juggle tight deadlines, keep up with fast-paced shifts and stay calm when priorities change.
- Great communicator who loves working as part of a team, bringing energy to collaborative projects and jumping headfirst into a challenge.
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
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- 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
- Company performance based bonus
- Sharesave scheme
- On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
- Early VIP access to sale stock
- Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
- Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
- Free on-site parking
- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
- Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.
We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.
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