E-Commerce Brands Growth Manager

Job description

Job Type

Digital

Location

London - Pimlico

Partnership Level

6

Closing Date

01/12/2024

Vacancy Type

Permanent

Salary

£53,000.00 - £85,000.00 Annual

Salary Frequency

Annual

Hours of Work

35

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We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where it is possible to do so. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.

Our Purpose

Working in Partnership for a happier world – our shared Purpose that guides us in everything we do and inspires 3 important principles; happier people, happier business, happier world. The John Lewis Partnership is a truly unique business, one that seeks to make a positive difference to the lives of everyone.

At a glance

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We know flexible working is important to you, and it is important to us too. The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The E-Commerce Growth team aims for around 2 days a week in the office to connect, usually a Wednesday & Thursday. The role is based at our London Central Offices in Pimlico. 

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The salary range for this role is set at £53,000 £85,000

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This is a permanent position

About the role

Become an E-Commerce Brands Growth Manager at John Lewis! Lead and grow our online brand presence.

We’re looking for an experienced commercial and customer-focused individual with knowledge of operating in an E-Commerce trading environment with experience of people management and influencing internal and external stakeholders and Brands. You will be experienced in building and maintaining productive external relationships and leading across multiple categories.

In this role, you will lead and develop your E-Commerce trading team, setting the strategic direction and outlining how Brands can grow at John Lewis, influencing stakeholders to deliver commercial targets and working with teams in Customer, Commercial. Content & Operations and Optimisation & Product to deliver these actions.

As the E-Commerce Brands Growth Manager, you will be responsible for articulating risks and opportunities to Brands performance looking forward, and analysis and recommendations from reviewing previous trading performance to maximise opportunities and minimise risks. You will use your functional knowledge, providing insight that enables you to influence improved decision-making and prioritisation across Commercial, Digital and Customer teams. You will lead the team to monitor performance and external benchmarks for you to ensure risks/opportunities are highlighted to stakeholders to improve existing Brand performance, new Brand business, on-site/app customer journeys or marketing tactic channel activity.

Key responsibilities: 

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Shares expert and insightful analysis of Brand performance data to drive E-Commerce trading actions

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Aggregates end-to-end site customer behaviour analysis across funnel steps, campaigns, traffic type & content to maximise channel performance and inform customer journey improvements.

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Constantly reviews external market benchmarks to share recommendations and inform category assortment development and site customer journey development

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Influences and informs Brands about assortment range, price & availability using site performance data to highlight risks/opps.

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Oversees and validates high-quality trading insight, commentary and site metric forecasting

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Develops a highly commercial and analytical team with a high-performance culture that brings customer and commercial data together to make better trading decisions and delivers continuous E-Commerce optimisation improvements

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Building and Owning the Brand growth plan

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Prioritisation of Brand risk/opp mitigation actions

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Will make decisions around in-week trading actions

Internal Partners, you can view a copy of the full job outline here:  eCommerce Brands Category Manager

Essential skills you’ll need

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Experience working with and influencing external brands

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E-Commerce experience - understands how to influence conversion, traffic and AOV through multiple digital and trading functions.

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Highly numerate and strong data-analysis orientation. Comfortable with interpreting complex data from multiple sources to provide clear recommendations.

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Strong commercial acumen.

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Line Management

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Influencing skills. Ability to build strong Stakeholder relationships both internally and externally

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Builds and owns growth platform for brands on how they can grow and support E-Commerce performance and customer experience to create a win win for JL and the brands, in context and in harmony with retail media and B&M relationships

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Develops plans at brand level to unlock and exploit opportunities, through identifying growth opps and gaining the support and investment from brands to make it happen and demonstrate incrementality.

Benefits of the Partnership and the role 

- Hybrid Working. 

️ - Full - time working holiday entitlement 25 days holiday, plus public and bank holidays (this is prorated for part time hours).

⚖ - Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy

- Defined Contribution pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay) and, after three years’ service, you’ll receive an additional Partnership contribution of 4% of pay, regardless of whether you pay in or not

- You’ll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete your Earning Membership period. That’s 25% off in John Lewis (12% off electrical products, some exclusions apply) and 20% in Waitrose (some exclusions apply) You’ll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount.

-  Simple cycle to work support scheme

- We’re really proud of our exclusive hotels based in some of Britain’s most beautiful areas and once you’ve been with us for three months, you’re welcome to explore them

- Health Care cover 

-  Learn more about our extensive range of exciting benefits that you could enjoy when you join us, visit - ttps://www.jlpjobs.com/about/benefits/

 

Next Steps 

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The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process").

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Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a 1 stage interview.

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You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you. 

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Please note, we occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend that you apply early.

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Thanks for your patience in the meantime and for showing an interest in joining the John Lewis Partnership. 

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At the John Lewis Partnership, we embrace our differences. We want you to be you. Because, well, we know you're at your best when you're free to be yourself. Being a truly inclusive employer to us means creating an environment which celebrates your contribution, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief. It's why we've set our own aim to become the UK’s most inclusive business - for our Partners (employees) and our customers. We firmly believe that our future success lies in diversity of thought from all Partners and it's integral in our mission to build a happier world. We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us. And, once you're a Partner, your differences will make all the difference. Find out more about D&I in the Partnership here - https://www.jlpjobs.com/about/diversityandinclusion/