Job Description

Job Category: Marketing
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About the role:
The International eCommerce team is recruiting an eCommerce Trading Lead to be at the forefront of our global growth! Based at Head Office in Leicestershire, offering a competitive salary alongside great benefits such as a company bonus, annual pay review & great staff discounts 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 International eCommerce Trading team fuels global growth by managing and optimising online product sales across 72 international markets. They drive exciting product launches, strategic promotions, and collaborate with leading third-party platforms to maximise sales and brand visibility worldwide.
As an eCommerce International Trading Lead, you will play a key role in maximising the performance of search and navigation across your designated regions. You'll collaborate closely with the Search & Navigation Manager and Regional Business Manager to continually improve how customers discover and engage with products. Using a data-led approach, you'll identify opportunities to enhance search results, sort order, filters, item titles and navigational structures - ensuring everything is optimised for maximum impact. You'll be at the forefront of trading strategy, driving improvements that boost performance, while also making sure new launches and seasonal moments are perfectly executed and easy to find.
What else is involved?

• Support the business owners to maximise the performance of all funnel metrics for search & nav (e.g. search conversion rate).
• Top free type searches for their countries reviewed and optimised.
• Make changes based on data (redirects, search pills, filters, synonyms. attribution/item titles, navigation updates).
• Reviews sort order and suggests opportunities to improve as well as flagging issues.
• Uses reports daily to flag any sort order issues, works with the business owners to resolve.
• Supports investigations into issues and optimisation.
• Reviews navigational performance Vs search performance and makes changes.
• Suggests amends to navigation based on data.
• Reviews searches on Next and on google and pushes through optimisation (including item titles).
• Supports sort order QA.
• Regularly reviews the competition.

You'll be doing all this from either 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.
About you:
We're looking for a highly motivated and professional individual who thrives in a fast-paced, high energy retail environment. You'll be naturally analytical and confident working with large volumes of data, using insights to inform smart, impactful decisions. Organised and detail oriented, you know how to prioritise effectively, meet tight deadlines and stay calm under pressure. You bring a strong sense of direction, perseverance and a drive to succeed - always ready to take on a new challenge. With excellent communication skills, you'll collaborate confidently across teams and levels, building strong working relationships in both your immediate circle and the wider business. Ideally, you'll have experience in an online trading or merchandising environment and a passion for delivering results in a dynamic digital space.
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 headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.