Digital Central Trading Manager - Tu (12m FTC)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Retail
Closing date: 11 January 2025
Requisition ID: 285324
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. As the link between sellers and buyers, retail and head office, our retail operations team is the cog that keeps things running. It’s an incredibly fast-paced environment where you need to pivot not just daily, but often hourly. So while we plan all we can, it’s vital that we all think outside our job descriptions and look to optimise and improve how we do everything. There’s also a real team ethos. After all, it’s people like you who are going to truly transform this part of the business.
Digital Central Trading Manager - Tu (12m FTC)
As Digital Central Trading Manager - Tu, you’ll be responsible for ensuring the Digital Trade Plan and Events deliver for our customer and commercial ambitions. You will be accountable for understanding overall Tu performance and providing updates to senior stakeholders. You’ll also be responsible for overseeing Tu@Argos, where you will work in partnership with the category leads to identify and implement opportunities to improve clothing performance on the Argos channel.
What outcomes I need to deliver:
* Responsible for defining the weekly Tu Digital Trade Plan (defining homepage and event priority missions) – ensuring we have clear line of sight of key activities across quarterly planning cycles with commercial/marketing, and optimising these pages ongoing based on performance data.
* Work collaboratively with Marketing across the group to ensure Customer Plans reflect our digital ambitions.
* You’ll oversee the digital orchestration of pan-category events (e.g. Easter, Christmas, Halloween) including planning, execution design and in-event trading & optimisation cross-site.
* You’ll lead on PIRs post events to ensure we take insight-driven learnings to inform future event strategy.
* Ensure our high-traffic page (e.g. Homepage) content and strategy delivers ever improving customer engagement and commercial return.
* Be on the pulse with our Digital trading performance; past, present and future to ensure we know what factors are influencing our metrics.
* You’ll have oversight of clothing on the Argos channel, identifying opportunities to increase clothing penetration on Argos.
What I need to know and show:
* Previous experience working in Digital Trading / Commerce teams, in a large retail business.
* Experience managing homepage and high-traffic page strategies is highly desirable.
* Highly competent in web-analytics (experience with Adobe desirable).
* Insight and analytically minded – able to present and interpret performance data in clear, engaging and action-focused ways.
* Coach and develop your direct report - ensuring they can make clear decisions and recommendations.
* Influence others to adjust their priorities where there may be conflicting concerns.
* A strong communicator that can communicate complex problems clearly.
* Using data and insights, you make connections between business strategy, colleague action and customer outcomes.
What decisions I can make including budget:
* Own the Tu Digital Customer and Trade Plan.
* Own our homepage strategy and any optimisation calls.
* Strategy and Recommendations on our Argos channel.
Directly or indirectly manages:
* 1x Digital Central Trading Lead (C4)
* Plus additional Mumbai based team support.
Support we will provide
* Coaching and support from Head of eCommerce (Clothing).
* Technology and access to all necessary tools for you and your team.
* Sainsbury’s Learning & Development resources along with line management support.
* Opportunity to participate in relevant industry events.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest-free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance, as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
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