Digital Trading Assistant

Digital Trading Assistant

Because your new ideas are our way new ways of working. Evolve, your way.

Our digital teams are right at the heart of what we do. Surrounded by some of the best digital specialists in the industry, you’ll bring your own ideas to the business to shape the experience of our customers as part of a forward-thinking team.

We are looking for a Digital Trading Assistant who will be responsible for the merchandising of our Primark.com website at a product and category level, ensuring that our strategy for both click and collect and non-transactional research journeys is executed and that we are hitting commercial targets. You will be performing daily analytics across core categories ensuring that our product catalogue showcases the best product mix in the right place, at the right time to encourage our customers to make a visit to one of our stores or to make a purchase via click and collect.

The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of fashion and lifestyle retail, as well as the ability to understand data to develop category merchandising and a good depth of understanding in fashion ecommerce. They will form a key part of our new and growing digital team, working closely with trade, buying & the wider digital function to ensure that Primark.com is achieving its strategic goals. We will be looking for a highly collaborative approach, focusing on strong relationship management and the achievement of shared goals.

What You’ll Get

People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best. Let’s talk lifestyle:

Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus. 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.

What You’ll Do as a Digital Trading Assistant

We want you to feel challenged and inspired. Here, you’ll develop your skills across a range of responsibilities:

1. Understanding of the e-commerce funnel, proactively identifying areas of friction and opportunities to drive engagement, support ease of shopping & optimise sales potential.
2. Execution of strategies in key commercial areas of the site including search and landing pages.
3. Analysing data to build hypotheses around which products & journeys to prioritise to drive department KPIs.
4. Contribution towards achieving Primark.com click and collect sales targets for designated departments.
5. Use dedicated tools and systems to deliver on core requirements of role & support further analysis and hypothesis build.

What you’ll bring

Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:

1. 1-3 years work experience in a web trading or digital merchandising team, with retail.
2. Experience using Search & Merchandising tools & platforms.
3. Excellent attention to detail.
4. Ability to thrive in fast paced environment; able to prioritise workload and find solutions to problems which may arise.
5. Self-motivated, problem solver and results oriented.
6. Excellent communication skills [written and oral] with strong presentation skills.

About Primark

At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.

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