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Online Trading Manager
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Job Title
Online Trading Manager
Location
George House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Fixed Term
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits
Category
Key Account Sales
Closing Date
5 October 2026
We are looking for an Online Trading Manager to set the Online commercial strategy for George Soft Home categories, driving sales and profit for the channel, managing the product onboarding process and online journey. Leading the team to ensure we deliver an easy, fast and friendly online customer experience on site. Working in partnership with strategic, digital and trading teams to define and execute the online strategy for General Merchandise.
This is a maternity cover role to join the business on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract. Based in George House, Lutterworth.
What You’ll Love
- Leading the team responsible for online sales and profit targets for GM Soft lines.
- Develop, shape and deliver departmental ranging strategies to maximise customer demand whilst growing profit contribution for the channel short to long term.
- Oversee the Product onboarding process ensuring that all product information is customer focussed, highlights key selling features and accurate.
- Responsible for visual merchandising across the site, showcasing the product to make shopping easy ensuring all taxonomy, categories and PLP's are effectively merchandised.
- Champion end to end execution for all activity ensuring full availability and optimum customer experience onsite. Working closely with core trading teams, and marketing teams to manage in season trading.
- Be an expert on our online customer and competitor landscape, understand behaviour to build relevant activity plans that maximise commercial benefit, focusing on customer acquisition, retention, and brand loyalty.
- Look for opportunities to increase conversion rate, cross sales and drive bigger baskets.
- Understand and utilise the insight from analytical merchandising, industry insight and market data to deliver a visual merchandising approach that maximises sales.
- Plays a key role for the Online Trade & Merchandise team in relevant key strategic projects and meetings, including senior GM cross functional weekly reviews.
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- Buying, merchandising or eComm experience preferred but not essential.
- Analytical and data driven, skilled in using data to make informed decisions and optimise results.
- Be a strong communicator with great personal skills to work with people at all levels – not just in our business, but also beyond it
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to manage change and drive results.
- You will be agile and an effective decision maker, willing to move, fail and learn fast
- Be obsessed about our purpose and our customers
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We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.
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Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- Company Car allowance of £5,700
- 15% colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves
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