Digital Trading Manager

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Working with the Trading Lead, this role will drive activities to ensure we achieve Revenue, Profit and EBIT targets for our JD Sports UK Digital business. The role will work with Buying & Merchandising & Digital Marketing functions to appropriately plan & deliver the activity.

• Job Title - Digital Trading Manager
• Location - Bury, BL9 8RR
• Working rota - Monday to Friday
• Working hours - 40hrs per week

What you'll be doing:

Planning

• Working with the Trade Lead & Commercial Finance Teams to Plan market targets & phasing.
• Responsible for the digital trading calendar for the market
• Own & drive the key projects and enhancements for the market website & app channels.
• Be aware of what competitors are doing, looking for new trends and developments.

Trading

• Create the weekly trading summaries and daily progress updates.
• Review previous week's performance and propose and agree actions for the week.
• Review daily sales identifying areas of weakness, proposing, and taking action to increase sales and ensuring optimal stock availability at all times.
• Tracking, reporting, and recommending solutions for slow sellers.
• Suggesting markdown and promotional events in line with brand strategy and tracking performance and reporting on successes and missed opportunities.
• Propose stories and sign off products selected by the Merchandisers to feature on mailers.
• Propose features and sign off products selected by Merchandiser to promote on the site.
• Review stores best sellers to promote the best of the store's lines.
• Refine and optimise merchandising activity by analysing traffic and sales data to improve overall effectiveness across categories.

Manage

• Build strong relationships with colleagues across Digital Marketing, Retail and Marketing teams.
• Develop & train the trading exec and their weekly workload.
• Manage the relationship with Operational teams to ensure local warehouse fulfilment is maximised.
• Manage the relationship with Customer Care to improve the customer experience.

Role objectives and KPI's:

• Assist the Digital Trading Lead to deliver agreed sales targets.
• Own the coordination of all channel and digital teams to effectively execute launches & Campaigns.
• Build upon existing strong relationships with various digital teams.
• Responsible for delivering the JD Digital P&L
• Strong Analytical skill set and confident working across a range of analytical platforms.

What we're looking for:

• Experience working in a Trading function across a large digital business.
• Used to managing a business P&L (£100M+ would be preferable).
• Confident working with large datasets and reporting tools (e.g. Excel, Power Bi, Google Analytics, etc.).
• A good understanding of other areas of an ecommerce business including Merchandising, Content, performance marketing and Customer Logistics.
• Able to develop and upskill more junior members of the team.
• Commercial brand awareness.
• Comfortable working closely with and delivering insights to senior business stakeholders.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and good team player.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.