E-Commerce Trading Executive

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity for an experienced E-commerce Trading Executive to join a well-known food brand based in Nottingham. As this business expands its reach across social and digital, they are looking for a creative, proactive talent to help them lead that charge.

You will work closely with the Ecommerce Trading team and collaborate with teams across Buying, CRM, Marketing, and Operations to deliver measurable growth for the brand. This is a hands-on, data-driven role where you'll use insights and performance metrics to optimise e-commerce trading activity, drive conversion, revenue, customer acquisition, and retention.

The role combines analytical thinking with practical execution, so you will need to turn insights into action, ensuring campaigns and promotions not only look good but also deliver strong results. You will also contribute to longer term trading strategies, helping shape the way they approach product, pricing, and promotions to achieve the company's business objectives.

• Location: Nottingham (hybrid - 1 day WFH)
• Salary: £35,000 to £38,000

Key Responsibilities

• Support and execute rolling tactical trading plans in line with the strategy for different business units and broader business objectives.
• Support the launch of new campaigns and products with structured trading plans to drive performance.
• Analyse trading performance (traffic, conversion, AOV, margins) and implement data-led improvements.
• Producing marketing leading promotional plans, working with the established buying team, which ensure key KPIs are achieved.
• Monitor competitor activity to help ensure they maintain a competitive advantage.
• Adapting the trading plan in line with opportunities and risks through campaign and promotion activations to deliver targets and budgets.
• Ensuring the website is kept up to date with correct offers, new products, new brands and website assets are regularly updated.
• Monitoring the conversion rates of key landing pages and working with marketing and digital teams to improve conversion where necessary.
• Work with CRM and Acquisition teams to maximise customer engagement, acquisition, and retention.
• Identify and suggest new growth opportunities, optimisations, and improvements to enhance the trading strategy.

About You

To be successful in this role, you would need to have previous experience trading in an e-commerce business, ideally within a subscription model or the food, nutrition, or health sectors. Technically, you will have experience using analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics) to derive insights and drive improvements.

You will have strong commercial awareness with the ability to deliver against targets and budgets and be comfortable working across multiple projects and priorities, with the ability to take ownership and deliver results.

You will demonstrate a proactive, hands-on approach and not be afraid to get stuck in and do what it takes to make campaigns and initiatives succeed. Ideally you will bring enthusiasm and confidence for challenging the norm and continuously improving processes and trading performance.

If this sounds like your next challenge, please apply via the link or contact James Robinson for further details.

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