Senior Manager - eCommerce Merchandising - Leeds / Remote
Full Job Description
Do you have a passion for giving customers a best in class online experience? Are you a skilled leader of people that knows how to get the best out of a team? Then Asda e-Commerce have got the right job for you.
As the Senior Manager for eCommerce Merchandising you will report to the Senior Director for Asda.com and play a crucial role in improving and maintaining our customer journey, range and value perception across the Online Groceries platform. You will lead a diverse and large team of 20+ colleagues split into a mixture of disciplines across category merchandising, product content and listing process, category design, and q-commerce range selection and maintenance.
You will also be a part of a wider Senior Manager leadership group which covers Media Spend and Events, Portfolio, Trading and Data Science, where your leadership skillset will come into play enabling cross functional change, ways of working and team building.
Key Elements Your Team will deliver:
- Land all product content changes across New Product Design and Packaging Amends, on time through the Product Content Critical path, team and third party (Brandbank)
- Merchandise our product categories in line with activity changes, key seasonal periods and customer trends
- Ensure our Search engine is backed up by best in class merchandising decisions
- Support and Drive our quick commerce businesses through smart ranging for immediacy propositions
- Champion excellence in execution across Category assets, design and bespoke customer journeys
- Be a solid foundation of the Asda.com team, serving as both an execution team for the trading function, and also a guiding beacon on ecommerce merchandising solutions
About You
- Experience of managing ecommerce systems
- Track record of managing colleagues and teams
- An eye for quality and design
- Good knowledge base across retail basics; supply, trading, marketing and operations
- Ability to consume the full business activity plan, and execute using your team to meet product and category launch deadlines
- Proven experience at reading data & trends, forming good judgment and leading towards a goal
- Personality to fit a diverse and fun team, with the ability to get the best out of individuals
- Capable to take control and take big decision making for any in the moment problems
- Able to communicate upwards and sideways to all levels, across merchandising health, projects and P&L support
Benefits of working at ASDA
Work Where it Works. Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to complete your daily tasks where you’ll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team.
While working at ASDA you will have an excellent benefits package that we’d love to talk to you about, including car allowance and colleague discounts on ASDA products & services.
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.