Online Trading Manager - Marketplace
Shire Park, Kestral Way, Welwyn Garden City
Marketplace is a key pillar of our strategy to be 'Easily the Most Convenient' grocer, offering customers the opportunity to shop from a broad range of 3rd party products seamlessly on one website and app. The Trading Manager will be responsible for managing on-site content and the customer journey in selected trading events, whilst maintaining the always on trading calendar in the wider team.
You will be responsible for:
- Delivery of the onsite trade plan and customer journey for Marketplace, whilst co-ordinating with the Grocery Home Shopping trade team to plan effective use of digital real estate across the online businesses matched to customer mindset.
- Manage the trading performance of Marketplace, and become the go to person for category performance, content deepdives and weekly trade performance
- Using digital data through Adobe to inform content decisions and planning of future content, along with SEO reporting to drive impressions and conversion.
- Manage the planning and execution of content changes with Marketplace sellers, building and developing relationships with the Seller Growth team through the product nominations cycle.
- Work collaboratively with our Marketing team to connect hero products into owned and paid channels for weekly trade and key seasonal events.
- Working closely with Marketplace operations and search and browse team to ensure products are merchandised correctly across the site to aid an expanding Marketplace product catalogue.
- Developing and managing collaborative relationships with digital product and technology teams to drive capability improvements for trade and content delivery. Manage the planning and delivery of a continuous range of A/B tests to feed into future content plans and strategies, as well as continuous improvement.
- Working with the wider Online Trading team in emerging spaces such as Personalisation and Segmentation to drive future thinking of content planning and execution.
- Champion agile methodologies and AI thinking to drive sophisticated idea generation to help shape the future of content. -
Managing and developing the Marketplace Trade Executive to develop within role and beyond.
You will need:
- Prior experience in Online trading
- Experience across Food and / or Non Food businesses
- Actively using analytics to make data driven decisions.
- A passion for E-commerce / digital with 5+ years experience in trading / content roles.
- Experience in a commercial environment in a customer facing role.
- Advanced Reporting capability through Adobe and / or other supporting programmes and tools
- Agile working.
- Team Management, including development of colleagues.
What's in it for you:
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Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
Private medical insurance
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
About us:
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.
We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.
NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.
We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility
