Job Description
The eCommerce team is recruiting an eCommerce Business Owner to be at the forefront of our UK growth! Based at Head Office in Leicestershire, offering a competitive salary alongside great benefits such as a company car, private medical insurance and Management Share Options, to name a few.
At NEXT, not only are we one of the UK’s largest fashion retailers, but we’re also one of the largest listed companies, full-stop. Selling our products and thousands of world-famous brands, both in-store and online UK and Internationally. What’s more, we’re growing. Fast. And it’s the kind of growth and investment that is exciting for everyone in our business.
The UK Trading team fuels UK growth by optimising online product sales on Next.co.uk across Womenswear, Menswear, Childrenswear and Home. They drive exciting product launches and strategic promotions to maximise sales and brand visibility.
The role
As the eCommerce Business Owner, you will play a pivotal role in driving UK sales for search. You will be the commercial owner of search & navigation, setting the direction for optimising performance and driving forward the experience for our customers. You will lead new initiatives and ideas and ultimately improve conversion and funnel metrics across the site. What else is involved?
- You will collaborate and bring together key stakeholders across the team, leading and setting commercial priorities in workload.
- You will own trading across search, navigation, sort orders, attribution & SEO and will be the subject matter expert in these disciplines, coming up with strategies to drive them forward.
- You will work with other trading functions in the ecommerce team such as International and Total Platform to ensure they are up to speed with developments and key trading strategy for search and nav.
- You will analyse search and navigation performance metrics, user behaviour, and customer insights to identify opportunities for growth and improvements in the sales funnel. Provide weekly sales performance and in-week insights to maximise sales potential.
- You will utilise A/B testing and other data-driven approaches to refine and optimise the overall customer journey.
- You will collaborate with key teams across ecommerce, ensuring all stakeholders are on the same page and have the same goals - setting the commercial priority where needed: SEO, Marketing, Data and so on.
You’ll be doing all this from our Leicestershire Head Office. Our offices are inspiring, yes. But we understand that life happens. So, we’re big on making sure your work, works for you which is why we offer flexible working. Bring your energy. Play to your strengths. Make things bigger and better than before. Let’s Take It On.
So if you’ve got experience in this field, are highly analytical with a commercial mindset, have senior line management experience and are looking for the next challenge, this is the role for you!
Benefits
- Competitive salary range of £70,000 - £90,000
- Flexible working options
- Annual company performance based bonus
- Private Medical Insurance
- Sharesave scheme, which allows you to invest in NEXT and claim your share of our success
- Annual Pay Reward
- Company Car Allowance
- Pension 3% Employer/ 5% Employee
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (can also buy/sell up to 3 days)
- 25% staff discount and free next day delivery to desk for online purchases
- Management Share Save Scheme
- A newly refurbished subsidised restaurant and bar
- Staff shops in Yorkshire and Leicestershire
- Juice bar and coffee shop
- Gympass - discounted gym membership
- Free company bus service to and from Leicester city centre and other areas
- Onsite nursery (salary sacrifice scheme) in Leicester
- A digital GP healthcare service
- & loads more!
About Us
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
About The Team
- 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
- Company performance based bonus
- Sharesave scheme
- On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
- Early VIP access to sale stock
- Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
- Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
- Free on-site parking
- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
- Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.
We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email
[email protected] (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.
