Digital Optimisation Executive
Hours: Full-time
Contracted Hours: 39
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Chester House, Epsom Ave, Handforth, Cheadle, Greater Manchester, SK9 3DF
Reporting to: Digital Optimisation Executive
Location: Hybrid role with 2-3 days in our Handforth office per week
Salary & Benefits: Competitive Basic Salary plus comprehensive offering.
About Us:
“ We put pets first” is our number one value at Pets at Home. Every colleague has a part to play to ensure that we deliver this value every day. Our love and understanding of pets led us to develop our long-term goal of improving the life of every pet in the UK. This covers not only the pets in our care, the pets of owners that use our products and services but also the pets that we can help through our charity work and through educating and advocating for change in society and the wider pet care and veterinary industry.
We have an ambitious plan, to become “The Best Pet Care Business in the world” and a key part of delivering this will be through customer engagement in our brand and its continued evolution.
Click to read our Values & Behaviours
About your role:
As a Digital Optimisation Executive, you will be responsible for optimising the customer journey for one or multiple categories on the site. You will conduct a deep analysis of the customer journey and combine insights with category strategy and the go-to-market plan to ensure the pages, navigation and content placement are optimal. You will work closely with the buying, content/campaign, performance marketing and e-commerce teams to ensure we hit our sales and margin targets.
About your responsibilities:
1. Support the Digital Trading Manager in creating the online category strategy for their areas – capturing data from key stakeholders.
2. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the category strategy is brought to life on the website.
3. Combine data and analytics with the category strategies to optimise the customer journey including content placement, internal linking, filters & facets, search and merch in order to drive conversion and profitable sales
4. Deep analysis and reporting on the purchase funnel including entry points, bounce rates and page performance.
5. Look for opportunities to drive the next best action through product recs, cross-sells and impulse purchases.
6. Work with the optimisation team to review performance from key search terms to identify opportunities to improve add to basket from search.
About You - knowledge, skills, and experience
7. 3 years + experience in eCommerce, Digital Trading or Digital Analytics
8. Attention to detail and business acumen, experience in a multi-category or multi-brand environment is preferred
9. Skilled using key Microsoft tools (Excel, PowerPoint) and insights tools such as Google Analytics and Power BI
10. Experience partnering with key stakeholders and holding good relationships and excellent team collaboration skills. Self-starter, self-driven and ability to think through problems
11. Analytical skills, able to report on content performance and provide recommendations to continuously improve.
Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you.