Online Trading ManagerStore Management

We are looking for an Online Trading Manager to set the Online commercial strategy for George Soft Home categories, driving sales and profit for the channel, managing the product onboarding process and online journey. Leading the team to ensure we deliver an easy, fast and friendly online customer experience on site. Working in partnership with strategic, digital and trading teams to define and execute the online strategy for General Merchandise.

This is a maternity cover role to join the business on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract. Based in George House, Lutterworth.

What You’ll Love

  • Leading the team responsible for online sales and profit targets for GM Soft lines.
  • Develop, shape and deliver departmental ranging strategies to maximise customer demand whilst growing profit contribution for the channel short to long term.
  • Oversee the Product onboarding process ensuring that all product information is customer focussed, highlights key selling features and accurate.
  • Responsible for visual merchandising across the site, showcasing the product to make shopping easy ensuring all taxonomy, categories and PLP's are effectively merchandised.
  • Champion end to end execution for all activity ensuring full availability and optimum customer experience onsite. Working closely with core trading teams, and marketing teams to manage in season trading.
  • Be an expert on our online customer and competitor landscape, understand behaviour to build relevant activity plans that maximise commercial benefit, focusing on customer acquisition, retention, and brand loyalty.
  • Look for opportunities to increase conversion rate, cross sales and drive bigger baskets.
  • Understand and utilise the insight from analytical merchandising, industry insight and market data to deliver a visual merchandising approach that maximises sales.
  • Plays a key role for the Online Trade & Merchandise team in relevant key strategic projects and meetings, including senior GM cross functional weekly reviews.

“Let's find out about you.”

  • Buying, merchandising or eComm experience preferred but not essential.
  • Analytical and data driven, skilled in using data to make informed decisions and optimise results.
  • Be a strong communicator with great personal skills to work with people at all levels – not just in our business, but also beyond it
  • Thrives in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to manage change and drive results.
  • You will be agile and an effective decision maker, willing to move, fail and learn fast
  • Be obsessed about our purpose and our customers

“Find your everything at Asda” - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach.

We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

  • Discretionary company bonus

  • Company pension up to 7% matched

  • Company Car allowance of £5,700

  • 15% colleague discount in store and online

  • Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.

  • Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

  • Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves

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Rewards and Recognition

Benefits you’ll only find here

10% off Asda pet insurance

10% off selected Asda Pharmacy services

10% off Asda Tyres

10% off Asda Travel insurance

20% off Asda Mobile bundles

Free remote GP service

Available to you, your partner and your children, 24/7, year round.

Pension

Save for retirement with contributions paid into your pension account by you and Asda.

Free physiotherapy consultations

Helping you and your partner take care of yourselves with 8 free sessions per year.

Colleague discounts

15% off at our stores - get discounts on groceries and George all year round.

Car cash allowance

Eligible colleagues will receive a cash allowance as part of their benefits package. In addition, all salaried colleagues can choose to register for the Salary Sacrifice Electric Car scheme*.

(*Conditions apply)

Mortgage advice

Whether you’re a first-time buyer, renewing your mortgage, looking at buy to lets, or simply after some advice in getting a mortgage, get free* unbiased advice through the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), one the UKs largest mortgage brokers.

Confidential support helpline

Find free emotional, practical, and financial support that’s fully confidential, through a helpline that’s available 24/7, year round.

Cycle to work

Buy a bike through this scheme and save on tax and national insurance.

Financial support

Find financial wellbeing tools and support, including the ability to stream your pay.

Free eye tests

Head to our in store opticians for a free checkup and take care of your vision.

Bonus

Sharing our success with a discretionary bonus scheme for salaried colleagues that really rewards your contributions.

Cancer support

Guidance and support for you and your family, from before diagnosis, to treatment and beyond.

Paid time off

From holiday to sick leave and other types of leave, such as parental leave.

Mental health support

Access free mental health support for you and your family.

Support and advice with care

If you’re supporting older family or friends with care and support, find free, confidential information, expert support, and guidance about later life care for your loved ones through the Legal & General Care Concierge service.

Hybrid working

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots

Save money on every day spends

Access to hundreds of high-street discounted Vouchers, discounts on days out, gym memberships, airport parking, and more

Setting your loved ones up for the future

As part of the team, you’ll get life assurance.

Guaranteed contracted hours

All colleagues are guaranteed weekly contracted hours / guaranteed weekly shifts via their contract of employment which is agreed with the hiring manager.

Holiday buying

Once a year our salaried colleagues are able to buy up to 5 additional days holiday via salary sacrifice (subject to eligibility).

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Our commitment to the Armed Forces

Here at Asda, we’re dedicated to helping the Armed Forces rediscover their everything after service. We guarantee interviews for people who have left service and meet the minimum criteria for a role, provide leave for reservists’ training, support for cadet training, and employment opportunities for their partners. And that’s why we have over a thousand new colleagues from the Armed Forces Service Leaver Community join us every year.

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