POST Recruitment are recruiting an Ecommerce Director for a thriving Leeds based success story, if you're proven within a £30m+ eCom business and are looking for an incredibly well backed, yet autonomous director level role this is the one you've been waiting for....
First things first, this is a hybrid role, you will be part of the leadership team and in the office 2/3 days per week, leading, collaborating and mentoring a wider team. The client will not consider a fully remote candidate.
Duties will include
• Actively driving business strategy, planning and decision making within the Leadership function.
• Lead and manage the Ecommerce function in line with the brand values across a number of disciplines to include Digital Marketing & Media, particularly PPC and Paid Social; Customer Activation & Acquisition; Marketing Communications; PR & Social; Product Management; Web Merchandising; UX & CRO, SEO & Content; Data, Analytics & Insight.
• Build a strong commercial plan to deliver, track and report against all business KPI’s.
• Management of marketing budget across all channels, with regular engagement with finance teams.
• Budget management, forecasting and reporting to senior team
• Optimise the commercial plan to respond to market, customer and business needs.
• Build an optimised channel strategy to deliver strong growth ambitions and business objectives.
• Develop working practises that strive for constant efficiency and optimisation to deliver best ROI.
• Identity areas of opportunity and risk with solutions to address. Manage execution through others.
• Provide the business with accurate reporting, actionable insight and robust recommendations.
• Lead the recommendations on tools and techniques to improve business performance.
• Deliver a balance of transformation and transactional output in line with business needs.
• Provide market and competitor insight to develop business thinking and decision making.
• Build a high performing team through strong leadership and management principles.
• Improve performance management through regular feedback and talent enhancement processes.
Technical Skills and Experience
• 10 years+ experience in Digital Marketing with at least 5 years in Direct Response channels
• 5 years+ experience in Customer Marketing, strong in campaign strategy, planning and initiation
• Expert in digital customer acquisition and activation strategies.
• Paid social, Google, SEO,
• Strong understanding of Brand, PR & Social Media marketing, experience in managing this function would be beneficial
• Strong analytical skills to include budgeting and forecasting in a high paced retail environment
• Hands on experience using digital analytics tools and good understanding of market software
• Advanced excel skills, comfortable with importing and joining data and using pivot tables.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, communication & presentation skills
• Proven track record in talent development and building high performing teams
• Innovation and leading edge technical marketing experience in the digital arena
• Key is relationship building across group and the industry
You will be someone who is...
• Ambitious and driven to achieve personal and business goals.
• Creative and adventurous. Open to new ideas, always seeking better ways of doing things.
If you are interested in this role, please apply ASAP. This vacancy is being advertised by Post Recruitment Ltd. The services advertised by Post Recruitment Ltd are those of an Employment Agency.
