eCommerce Product Marketing Assistant - 6 Month FTC

The eCommerce team are on the lookout for an eCommerce Product Marketing Assistant to join and be at the forefront of our UK growth focusing on the Homepage, for this 6 Month FTC! Based at our Leicester Head Office, offering a competitive salary alongside great benefits! 

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 UK Trading team fuels UK growth by optimising online product sales on Next.co.uk across Womenswear, Menswear, Childrenswear, Beauty and Home. They drive exciting product launches and strategic promotions to maximise sales and brand visibility. 

About The Role:

Working as an eCommerce Product Marketing Assistant in this 6 Month FTC, you will play a key role in our eCommerce Campaigns team, helping to shape the Homepage - the digital storefront of our brand. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a passion for fashion and a flair for creativity, who can also bring strong organisation skills and sharp commercial awareness. You'll use your understanding of our customer and your ability to interpret sales data and trends to help decide what products deserve the spotlight. As the Homepage is a high-impact space, you’ll work closely with teams across the business, so confidence in communication and collaboration is essential. 

What else is involved?

• A varied role working across departments to curate and coordinate our homepage, managing weekly updates and daily changes in response to trade
• You will bring a creative element to online trading, working with our brand marketing and design teams to select the best imagery and ensure we deliver a truly inspirational onsite experience, whilst utilising your commercial knowledge to ensure the page is reflective of customer mindset
• You’ll be responsible for optimising the onsite experience, and translating new ideas into practical solutions that improve performance, ensuring recommendations have the customer’s needs and wants at the forefront 
• Continually reviewing information on sales, bestsellers & key online metrics and reacting to performance trends, you will adapt our online marketing as required, ensuring the page always remains relevant
• You will stay informed about the latest competitor activity and trends and provide recommendations based on your research to ensure the site remains competitive
• You will review performance of the page and present back results to senior stakeholders, identifying successes and opportunities
• You will have good communication skills to build productive relationships across all levels of the business, holding productive meetings and establishing effective and efficient ways of working 
• Project management of own workload, ability to prioritise, and good problem solving skills are all essential as you drive tasks through to completion.  You will attend all relevant meetings and be responsible for maintaining accurate administration of key business documents. 

You’ll be doing all this from 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:

• Ecommerce trading or marketing experience desirable but not essential
• Highly motivated and hardworking with a professional attitude, who is able to work under pressure in a fast paced environment
• Displays a clear sense of vision, direction and belief, with perseverance and a desire to succeed
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present to a range of audiences and influence to win support for positive change and new ideas 
• Evidence-based approach. Comfortable with using data reporting tools and a passion for identifying opportunities and creating solutions with a positive attitude to change 
• Is able to accurately identify own development needs and is open to learning 

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!