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The eCommerce International team is recruiting an eCommerce Marketing Manager (12 Month FTC maternity cover) to be at the forefront of our global growth! Based at Head Office in Leicestershire, offering a competitive salary alongside great benefits such as private medical insurance, staff discount, company bonus 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 80+ international markets. They drive exciting product launches, strategic promotions, and collaborate with leading third-party platforms to maximise sales and brand visibility worldwide.

The role

As our eCommerce Marketing Manager, you will own the marketing roadmap, driving brand awareness and customer engagement across key international markets. Working at the heart of a commercially driven team, you’ll harness sales data and web metrics to uncover insights into customer engagement. Your proactive, data-led approach will fuel smart, impactful decisions enabling you to spot opportunities, optimise campaigns and accelerate profitable sales growth internationally.

What else is involved?

• Drive profitable sales growth for your region
• Think commercially about the shopping experience
• Create engaging and relevant marketing content that delivers on key KPIs
• Build strong external relationships to support sales growth objectives
• Work closely with the Trading Manager and Product Trading Manager to deliver commercially relevant content & campaigns
• Own the Marketing roadmap
• Champion awareness of the NEXT brand for key International markets and clearly communicate our USPs, values and vision to the customer
• Push for exposure on locally relevant marketing channels across your region
• Plan and deliver relevant Campaigns across key touchpoints (offsite marketing, homepages, Emails etc…) using market trends and product insights
• Optimise the incremental revenue that is driven by marketing
• Leverage localised seasonal events to drive customer engagement
• Work closely with Paid Marketing to drive engaged, high-quality traffic that results in incremental customers and sales for your region
• Own the customer metrics for your region
• Build a clear understanding of the core customer for your markets and how you can tailor marketing communications to best resonate with them
• Drive increased order frequency and AOV by ensuring NEXT is front of mind for customers as a “one-stop” fashion and homeware destination
• Understand the different customer pots within your region and build a compelling strategy to drive customer acquisition and retention
• Work closely with the promotions team to provide relevant and personalised incentives to customers that result in profitable incremental sales

So, what are we looking for?

To be successful in the role you must be commercial, analytical and comfortable with data metrics, have previous experience of working within an eCommerce Marketing or Campaign led role, be passionate about delivering best in class marketing campaigns and be skilled at delivering engaging and informative content. You must be a strong communicator who is confident about taking on a leadership role, whilst not being afraid of asking questions, so if this sounds like you, this is the role for you and your career!

You’ll be doing all this from our Enderby, Leicestershire Head Office - 3 days a week in the office and 2 from home per week. Bring your energy. Play to your strengths. Make things bigger and better than before. Let’s Take It On.

The benefits

We’ll discuss more of what you’ll get when you work for NEXT at interview, but here’s an overview of what you can expect:

• Competitive salary range of £42,000 - £50,000
• Profit–related company bonus
• Contributions into a pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Sharesave scheme, which allows you to invest in NEXT and claim your share of our success
• A newly refurbished subsidised restaurant and bar
• On-site nursery (salary sacrifice scheme) in Leicester
• Staff shop on site in Enderby and other locations in the UK
• Juice bar and coffee shop on-site
• Free parking on-site, including car sharing
• Free company bus service to and from Leicester city centre and other areas
• 25% staff discount on most NEXT products – either in our stores or delivered directly to your desk
• National and local discounts on goods and services
• A digital GP healthcare service
• Private Medical Insurance
• & more!

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!

• 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.