Trading Manager - Fashion, Home & Beauty
This role offers a mix of office and field-based working, with time divided between our Waterside Support Centre (2 days) and travel across the business as required What You Will Do
- Partner with Store Directors to deliver outstanding Fashion, Home & Beauty trading performance across your division.
- Translate national trading strategies into locally relevant plans that maximise sales, profit and customer engagement.
- Identify local market opportunities, competitor activity and customer trends to drive commercial growth.
- Analyse trading performance, sales data and stock productivity to uncover opportunities and mitigate risks.
- Influence stock, space and trading decisions through actionable customer and store insight.
- Build strong partnerships across stores, regions and support centre teams to deliver divisional priorities.
- A commercially astute retail leader who spots opportunities and acts on them.
- Passionate about understanding customer behaviour and what drives local market performance.
- Naturally curious, using insight and data to guide decision-making.
- A confident influencer, comfortable working with senior stakeholders across multiple business functions.
- Results-focused, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on delivery.
- Collaborative and proactive, building strong relationships to deliver business outcomes.
- Strong Fashion, Home & Beauty trading and commercial experience within a retail environment.
- Proven ability to analyse performance data and translate insight into measurable action.
- Experience identifying local market opportunities and developing successful trading plans.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at Regional Manager, Store Director and support centre level.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with confidence presenting commercial recommendations.
- Experience working within multi-site retail operations, alongside merchandising, planning or trading functions.
What’s in it for you
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever‑evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value and service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
- 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third‑party brands for you and a member of your household.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days.
- Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
- A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
- A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
- Industry‑leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
- Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues, including our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist for you and your family.
- A charity volunteer day to support a cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
Everyone’s welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together. If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.