Online Merchandiser, eCommerce

Job description

Job Type

E-commerce

Region

South East England

Location

Bracknell

Preferred Hours

Full Time

Partnership Level

08

Closing Date

12/3/2020

Vacancy Type

Permanent

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Salary

£29,800 - £40,200

Salary Frequency

per annum

Hours of Work

09:00 - 17:30
35 hours per week
Monday to Friday
**May include some earlier starts/later finishes

Flexible working is welcomed and encouraged. All roles can be flexible - it is not the where, when or how you fulfil your role that is important to us, it is the contribution you make to our business as a Partner.

Duties & Responsibilities

What's the role about?

We're currently recruiting for an Online Merchandiser to join our eCommerce team on a permanent basis.

As an Online Merchandiser, you'll effectively merchandise products, ensuring that the customer journey and sales conversion is commercially optimised.

Job Requirements

What you'll be doing as an Online Merchandiser?

Key responsibilities would include:

1. Day to day merchandising of sales categories, navigation and search to maximise sales and profit
2. Deliver the merchandising of the category, including executing all relevant promotions on time and reflecting the Waitrose Promotional Plan
3. Deliver optimised onsite product & promotional positioning
4. Commercially leverage content to drive sales
5. Ensure the category is legally compliant
6. Building close and collaborative working relationships across eCommerce and with Commercial
7. Manage the provision of all reporting requirements to stakeholders and provide insight to understand and improve the performance of the category

To succeed in the role, you will be highly numerical and analytical, have retail/commercial experience and be a confident user of excel. You will enjoy building effective relationships to drive performance.

Ideally, you will also have merchandising experience and a solid understanding of online metrics, and knowledge of website analytics tools.

Required essential experience skills and qualifications

What you'll have:

- Proven numeracy
- Retail and/or Commercial experience
- Proven numeracy and ability to analyse data to provide actionable insights
- Proven ability to influence across functional boundaries

Required desirable experience skills and qualifications

What else could you bring:

- eCommerce experience

What's in it for you?

As a Partner, you'll receive our incredibly competitive range of benefits, which include:

- Partnership discount card with up to 25% off at John Lewis & Partners and up to 15% off at Waitrose & Partners
- Access to our 5 privately-owned hotels and other destinations
- A competitive pension package
- Up to £250 towards a non-working related learning activity of your choice
- Regular access to sample sales (items can be as little as 10% of the retail cost)
- Free access to many UK Heritage sites and discounted tickets to a whole host of tourist destinations
- Up to £60 per year towards the cost of concert or theatre tickets
- An amazing choice of subsidised social and sports clubs with an abundance of trips, holidays and activities to suit all tastes
- And much more! (Details available at www.jlpjobs.com/about/benefits/)

Please note the following:

- This role is subject to the following pre-employment screening: 2 year reference check
- We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early.
- It is advisable to carefully consider your answers to each of the 3 questions that are asked as part of the last section in the application form. Tailoring your answers to highlight your relevance to the role in question may help you to secure an interview.

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