Role:                     Ecommerce Manager
Location:             Offices based in Watford and Leicester. Able to be based from either and work part home/office split. UK based fully remote is also an option
Salary:                  £65,000 plus discretionary bonus and benefits, which includes PMI and life assurance.

What’s on offer here is the chance to join a £200m, 50+ year old ‘start-up’.

You read that right, it’s a business whose brands have been around for a long time, but is in essence a completely new start-up in itself.

How?

Through acquisition, this PE backed organisation who have acquired a number of firms and brought them all together to create this new organisation. It’s five well established consumer goods brands in the food and drink categories. Their specialty is in the Indian and Asian foods market, which are sold through both independent retailers and the big national supermarket chains.

They created a new parent business in order to bring everything together, and have also introduced a new leadership team to take them into their new phase of growth. This team is made up of some real powerhouses from businesses like Tilda, Tesco, Amazon and Premier Foods.

The company’s ambition over the coming couple of years is to grow each category by multiples, and they see this being achieved not just through investment and diversifying products. But by opening new channels, with an especially big focus on digital and ecommerce, as they're untapped potential for the company to date. Having relying on more traditional retail and brand heritage to see them through pre acquisition.

The World Foods product categories have projections for significant growth over the coming 3-5 years, with people looking for new and authentic and exciting experiences for home cooking. So they’re looking to ensure the brands are well positioned and visible in the appropriate locations to tap into this.

This is where you come in.

As the Ecommerce Manager, your role is to work with the national accounts team, defining a category-by-category approach to improving our ecommerce performance. Whilst the primary focus is to increase online sales through supermarket websites, you’ll also give focus to pureplay etailers and marketplaces - understanding the challenges and opportunities for each, helping to put in place the appropriate fixes and strategies which deliver improved trading results.

This will include looking at content, brand and product assets, elements of UX and promotional strategies. Ensuring everything is appropriately optimised for channel and platform. With strategic decisions underpinned by sound data and commercial reasoning you’ll focus initially on digital shelf optimisation.

You will own the ecommerce roadmap for all brands and their respective product ranges. Looking to enhance ecommerce capabilities across both owned and 3^rd party sites. Ensuring each have the right assets, content, tools and functionality available to deliver to commercial objectives and growth in online sales.

There is a lot of scope for growth and development as it’s so early on in their journey selling online. But they’re an environment which reflects a lot of pace and are certainly committed to the mission. There’s an exciting journey ahead, and one you’re sure to get a lot of satisfaction from.

Key experience

• Good level of ecommerce experience established in an FMCG business
• Knowledge/experience of volume selling on behalf of a brand via 3^rd retailers including the big grocery firms and Amazon or online marketplaces
• Good knowledge of UX within ecommerce
• Confident influencer, able to galvanise others behind your ideas and strategies
• Able to demonstrate the positive impacts you’ve had on a business and delivery of commercial results
• You’re the kind of person who knows how to get things done and can work at pace to achieve success
• Energetic, able to work with ambiguity.

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

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Colin Doree
Head of Recruitment, Digital, Marketing & Data
Blue Pelican
01892 507122
colin@bluepelican.com