Senior Digital Trading Specialist

JR United Kingdom; Upper Langwith; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Senior Digital Trading Specialist, Shirebrook

Client: Frasers Group

Location: Shirebrook, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Views: 6

Posted: 18.04.2025

Expiry Date: 02.06.2025

Job Description:

At Frasers Group we’re rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we’re serving our consumers with the world’s best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we’re elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.

Our mission: we are building the world's most admired and compelling brand ecosystem.

Our purpose: we are elevating the lives of the many with access to the world’s best brands and experiences.

At Frasers Group, we fear less and do more. Our people are forward thinkers who are driven to operate outside of their comfort zone to change the future of retail, embracing challenges along the way. The potential to elevate your career is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles:

• Think without limits: Think fast, think fearlessly, and take the team with you.
• Own it and back yourself: Own the basics, own your role and own the results.
• Be relevant: Relevant to our people, our partners and the planet.

Are you ready to join the Fearless?

*Please note, our digital trading opportunities are based at our Shirebrook, Mansfield HQ.

Job Responsibilities:

To stay ambitious, we are building out a digital hub at the cultural & commercial heart of our group, our global HQ and distribution centre in Shirebrook. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a successful and growing digital trading team working on established digital websites. Passionate about digital trading, this is a chance for someone who wants to develop and own digital trading strategy as well as the day-to-day trading and analysis of their website.

Reporting into a Trading Manager, you will be responsible for driving sales through commercial strategic planning and the successful execution of campaign, brand and promotional strategies. You will lead cross-functionally on trading projects that help drive sales and other digital KPIs. You will be a systems and tooling expert and will be responsible for ensuring the team are getting the most out of our platforms.

• Accountable for managing the day-to-day trading and execution of a website, under the guidance of the Trading Manager.
• Manage reporting of daily/weekly/monthly/annual trade, providing detailed analysis of key business drivers and feeding into action plans to ensure sales and contribution targets are met.
• Oversee and report on the weekly content for site changes, campaigns, promotions and brand partner updates.
• End-to-end management of all critical paths for campaign and promotional activity, including awareness of upcoming activities.
• Ensure communication of product & trading strategies to all digital marketing and optimisation teams.
• Serve as super-user for all Digital Trading tooling – ensure all other team members are trained on and maximize usage of these tools and feed into roadmaps for tool improvements.
• Lead cross-functionally on Digital Trading projects as relevant.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to coordinate development and execution of evergreen and seasonal content requirements to drive SEO, customer engagement and conversion.
• Manage process of improving product content, supporting teams to resolve any issues as quickly as possible to optimise sales.

People Management:

• Demonstrate strong leadership and extensive people management skills.
• Set clear objectives, goals and development plans.
• Build an effective and motivated team, to work as more than a collection of individuals.
• Be an active and positive contributor to the team, contributing to the overall digital strategy.
• Represent the Digital Trading Team across the wider business, ensuring digital KPI’s are understood and achievable for all.

Qualifications:

• Valid working rights for the UK.
• Analytical with strong reporting skills, advanced Google Analytics, Contentsquare, and Excel user.
• Experience in management of Trading Assistants.
• Experience working within e-commerce platforms.
• Experience driving both day-to-day improvements that contribute to sales growth.
• Independent, self-motivated, and proactive.
• At least 3-4 years of experience in a similar digital role in a retail or consumer brand.

Additional Information:

We offer a 4-1 flexible working pattern, with 1 day from home each week. Our offices are modern and open plan, with free parking, an on-site restaurant, and one of our Everlast gyms down the road where we offer our colleagues £10 memberships. With incredible career development opportunities supported by our Learning & Development team, you will work with industry experts to guide and shape projects that will deliver commercial growth across household name brands.

Along with your benefits package we also offer a wide range of perks for our colleagues:

Reward, Recognition and Opportunities:

Frasers Champion: Our employees are at the heart of our business and we ensure individuals are recognised every single month for their hard work. Frasers Champion is a peer nominated scheme where 8 winners will receive double their pay for a month where they have thought without limits, owned it or been relevant.

Fearless 1000: By October 2025, we want our share price to hit £10. If that happens for 30 or more consecutive trading days, all colleagues across the business will receive a bonus! The top 1000 performers in the company will receive unprecedented bonuses, worth from £50,000 to £1million! Senior leaders across the business nominate these performers twice a year for embodying our core values and delivering exceptional performance*.

*subject to terms and conditions.

What’s next? Our Recruitment Team will be reviewing applications and all candidates will receive a response, whether you are successful or unsuccessful. Shortlisted applicants may be asked to confirm a few key details before being booked in for a first stage interview with the Recruiter- this will be behaviourally focussed and centred around how you align with our Culture and Values. If successful we anticipate two further interview stages with the Hiring Manager/wider team which will be more technically focussed and could include a presentation/task so we can see your skills in action.

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