Assistant Digital Merchandising Manager

We're looking for an Assistant Digital Merchandising Manager to join us and support the successful delivery of our food digital merchandising strategy. As the UK's number one convenience retailer, we're giving shoppers more ways to engage with our brand and products online, and you'll be key to making sure we can provide our members and customers with the products they love.

In this role, you'll be responsible for delivering category and partner strategies across our partner websites. You'll work closely with both senior internal and external partners so we can land strategic growth projects right first time and in a safe and legal way. We'll also look to you to collaborate with our partner and suppliers, as well as our ecommerce operational teams, to make sure we deliver product, range, price, and promotions effectively and accurately. If you've got experience of working in e-commerce or digital merchandising, then we can offer you the opportunity to grow your career and make a real difference to our members, customers, and communities.

What you'll do

• Manage the range process on our partner website, making sure that all content, media, and navigation achieve optimum storefront health


• Achieve sales and profit targets by platform


• Be responsible for product availability and merchandising our website accordingly


• Manage on site activity and promotional plans to enhance the online customer journey


• Build relationships with key internal partners across the business to regularly improve the online shopping experience


• Optimise search engine performance to drive sales and conversion working with our partners to do so
  
  Strong ecommerce or digital merchandising experience


• The ability to build relationships cross-functionally and with senior business leader both internally and externally


• Commercial experience and the ability to manage a P&L and margins on our websites


• Experience using Excel to an intermediate level


• The ability to contribute to strategy, think strategically and support our vision for the medium and long term
  
  At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.


Building a diverse environment

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).


• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)


• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays


• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions


• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)


• Coaching and training to support your career development


• Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn