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Head of Online Trading - 12 month FTC - London, Greater London

£16.2 - £17 per hourEstimated

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Head of Online Trading - 12 month FTC - London, Greater LondonEveryone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. Its your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when youre part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.

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Please note this role is a 12 month FTC

What you'll do

The Head of Online Trading is accountable for delivering bestinclass online commercial performance across all categories and business units. This role drives sales, conversion, and customer engagement through exceptional daily execution across all devices, dataled decisionmaking, and continuous optimisation of the endtoend trading experience.

A strategic leader with strong interpersonal skills and a deeply embedded digital mindset, they inspire, coach, and develop highperforming multicategory trading teams. They define and implement the online trading strategy, ensuring the site consistently reflects brand values while balancing commercial targets and evolving customer needs.

The role oversees the full trading lifecycle: ensuring products launch accurately and on time; delivering commercial, marketing, and seasonal plans flawlessly; and proactively using digital insights to influence crossfunctional partners across Buying, Merchandising, Content & Imagery and Marketing.

Success is measured through robust trading outcomes: including sales, conversion, customer engagement, availability, accuracy, speed to site, execution quality, and overall customer satisfaction.

Who you are

  • Proven leadership in online trading, ecommerce merchandising or digital commercial roles
  • Strong grasp of ecommerce principles, journeys, behaviours and trading levers
  • Highly datadriven, with strong analytical interpretation skills
  • Excellent communicator with the ability to influence across BUs and central functions
  • Experienced in leading high performing, multicategory teams in a fastpaced environment
  • Strong understanding of product onboarding, CMS and PIM processes
  • Knowledge of SEO, onsite search optimisation and UX principles
  • Able to balance commercial priorities with customer and digital insight

What's in it for you

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. Were inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once youve completed your probation

Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more

Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours

Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future

Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one

Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal

Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave

24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services

One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

Everyone's Welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. Were disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. Were transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please dont hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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