Ecommerce Merchandising Executive (12 Month FTC)

Ecommerce Merchandising Executive

Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)

Location: Hatfield/Sunderland (hybrid working – 3 days in the office)

Working hours per week: 40 hours

Level: Associate

About Us

Our mission is to deliver joy in every shop, through unbeatable choice, unrivaled service, and reassuringly good value.

We’re Ocado Retail, a market-leading, joint venture between Ocado Group and M&S and the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket ocado.com. Not only is Ocado.com the only place to shop a full range of M&S food online, but it’s also the home to the widest online supermarket range in the UK and champion of small, independent brands. We’re also the brains behind Zoom by Ocado, our same-day grocery delivery service.

About The Team And The Role

We want to make the shopping experience for our customers as simple, smart and inspiring as possible, whilst hitting commercial goals. As part of the Merchandising team, it's our job to inspire customers and ensure all events follow a smooth customer journey through brilliant shop-keeping.

As an Ecommerce Merchandising Executive, you will play a key role in planning, briefing, executing and optimising onsite merchandising on Ocado.com. You will collaborate with various stakeholders and creative teams to deliver campaigns on time, use merchandising levers to optimise the site to drive trade and continuously review and act upon performance data.

What You’ll Do

• Reviewing & analysing data & insight to report on Ecommerce KPI performance, with actions executed to improve performance.
• Utilise all available merchandising levers to drive conversion and customer experience
• Execute the Merchandising & Campaigns plans
• Use various systems to launch, optimise and update campaigns, product listings, content and key pages: including media assets and tagging.
• Build collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across the business
• Monitor other ecommerce sites to share best practice and innovation that drives optimisation and testing within Ocado.
  
  

Who you are

• You’ll have excellent attention to detail skills, with an eye for detail to be able to provide accurate and high quality work.
• Competent and confident working on internal systems, spreadsheets and powerpoint presentations.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• PC literate, including Excel, as well as a quick learner, as the role will require the use of a number of different internal systems
• A problem solver who is organised and able to balance multiple priorities at once
• Customer focused as the more you can understand our customers’ needs, the easier and more fulfilling this job will be
• Results orientated – Proactive and focused on delivery of successful outcomes for the team and ORL. Bases decisions on solid rationale supported by data and insights, takes ownership of issues and decisions.
  
  

At Ocado Retail we’re passionate about building careers and skills by giving people access to new and diverse opportunities. If you don’t tick all the boxes above but have a curious mindset, a passion for learning and adaptable skills to bring to the role, we still want to hear from you!

What’s In It For You

By joining Ocado Retail you’ll have the chance to experience life at the world’s largest online retailer, work with an amazing bunch of people who challenge what’s possible each day, and grow your skills and career in online retail.

If that’s not enough to tempt you, you’ll also get access to loads of great benefits to sweeten the deal. Here’s a taste of what we offer:

Health & Wellbeing: Private medical insurance with the option to add your family, Digital GP appointments, market-leading family policies, mental health support, discounted gym memberships, dental insurance, and more.

Spend & Save: Recognition with reward platform, up to 7% matched pension contributions, 15% Ocado discount, 20% M&S discount, free breakfast every day in the office, electric vehicle leasing scheme and free shuttle bus from Hatfield station to the office.

Never miss the moments that matter: Blended/Hybrid working, 26 days holiday plus 8 flexible bank holidays, options to buy an extra holiday, 2 weeks work from anywhere, and lifestyle break opportunities.

Our Hiring Process

Lucky for us, we get loads of great applications and we really appreciate that so many people put the time and effort in to apply. To recognise that, we treat all applications respectfully and fairly. So, if yours stands out, you’ll follow our standard hiring process – one of our Talent Partners will talk you through this in an initial call.

Everyone’s welcome

We’re an equal opportunities employer. That means that we make sure all potential colleagues are treated fairly and equally. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form.