Marketplace Trader Remote
Job description
Who we are
Online Home Retail is the home of Plumbworld.co.uk - one of the UK’s largest exclusively online retailers of bathroom and kitchen products. With warehousing based in Evesham, Worcestershire, Plumbworld has been trading online since 1999, serving over a million public and trade customers.
Now a part of the Highbourne Group which proudly consists of City Plumbing, PTS, DHS, NSS, The Underfloor Heating Store, Plumbnation and Plumbworld serving trade and consumer customers across the new build, social housing and repairs & maintenance sectors of the residential and commercial construction categories.
Our people make us who we are. We want you to enjoy and challenge yourself, build a career and teach us what we don’t know. Our plans are ambitious, and we’re looking for people who want to join us for the ride – our growth will be your growth.
The role in short
Working with the Head of Marketplaces, the Marketplace Trader role supports the growth and optimisation of our eBay marketplace channel, providing end to end ownership of all categories. To ultimately maximise sales and margin using their visual merchandising, analytical and trading skills. To always put the customer first when understanding the implications of problems and determining the solutions.
You will be a marketplace expert with experience in delivering growth on eBay and other third-party channels. This role would suit someone who has technical experience in trading on eBay and has a passion for driving performance.
Perks of the job
Work your hours around you, as long as you get the job done you can work when is best for you!
31 days holiday (including bank holidays) bookable in hours making it super flexible for you
The option to buy and sell up to annual leave, to suit your personal needs
Access to our online platform for e-learning resources, hundreds of retail discounts, cycle to work scheme and car scheme
Fancy a new bathroom? We offer attractive staff discount to you and your family!
Of course, we offer all the good stuff like life assurance, pension scheme, training and free onsite parking!
Free fruit onsite for employees, delivered weekly!
Onto the nitty gritty!
· Creating and delivering eBay specific trading strategies with the support of the Head of Marketplaces
· Understand and utilise marketplace data with the creative needs of our brands and products to deliver a strategy that helps drive sales, profit and productivity.
· Ability to read, understand and produce channel performance reports and recommend actions based on this data
· Maintaining channel account selling status, metrics and feedback
· Managing a portfolio of 000’s of products with focus on high converting content, pricing and run rate
· Managing selling prices and automated repricing in line with business requirements
· Planning, executing and managing promotional activity utilising tools and promotional events available to us
· Supporting with Advanced promoted listings campaigns
· Liaising with internal and external teams to maintain relationships
· Continually optimising listings to increase traffic and improve conversion
· Monitoring the market to understand marketplace trends and our share within this by category and subcategory
· Providing market insights and data as required for range reviews and trading meetings
· Responsible for ensuring new products are launched on time and with the right content
· Contribute to the development and implementation of key process and system changes within the business
· Managing the sell through of overstocked and clearance lines with the support of the commercial team
We’d like to meet someone with
· Strong experience of managing marketplaces
· Passionate about selling online
· Proficient using Excel and managing data
· Excellent communication skills
· Able to prioritise regularly and efficiently
· Experience in using multi-channel management platforms (Linnworks would be preferred)
If this sounds like you, please apply!
All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK and employment is subject to a satisfactory DBS check.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £40,000.00-£45,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Remote
