ECommerce Trade Planning Manager

We are looking for an ECommerce Trade Planning Manager to be responsible for owning and optimising both the Retail calendar and central Commercial trading calendar, ensuring trading messages are relevant and support adidas and own branded product in achieving revenue targets.

In this exciting role, you’ll support our Senior ECommerce Trading Manager and operate cross-functionally, particularly with our Digital Marketing and Buying and Merchandising teams, to coordinate product messaging to our customers across all online touchpoints, including homepage, category pages, and promotional spaces.

You’ll be entrusted to ensure optimal product visibility and commercial performance through new on-site real estate opportunities, implementing localised trading plans for key territories, and maintaining brand consistency across all digital channels including Arsenal.com, Arsenaldirect.com, and our club app.

Who We Are

We are one of the most famous clubs in world football, with a rich heritage and history of success – read more about our history, here.

Beyond that, we are passionate about our local community and, behind the scenes, we have a wide variety of opportunities and career paths for all. We have a very defined purpose: to act for a winning team, culture and community. We achieve this by ensuring we are courageous in the pursuit of progress, we champion our community and each other, and that we do the right thing (even when no one is looking).

Your day-to-day

• Own and maintain a centralised trading calendar – you will proactively manage a centralised trading calendar and parter with our Buying and Merchandising team to ensure the buy is supported
• Collaborate with colleagues across our club – you’ll partner with our Marketing and Product teams to ensure content and creative requirements are met for ECommerce and amplified across our channels and you will help define future requirements and improvements for business tooling
• Deliver exceptional product launches – you will take pride in owning internal communication plans for product launches and teaming up with colleagues to ensure we execute all major launches, hype drops and promotional activity, brilliantly, first time, every time
• Develop and maintain the homepage strategy – you’ll ensure messaging is aligned across marketing channels, store, email, social, and paid to support product launches, and business objectives
• Create and oversee content – you will relish the opportunity to create, curate and optimise webpage and app content, ensuring consistency with brand voice, tone, and messaging across the website
• Monitor content performance and user engagement – you’ll diligently review how our content is performing and our user engagement, making data-informed content improvements, including frequency of updates on devices and you will report on content KPIs and make recommendations to leadership and share updates on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis
• Build out a localised plan – you will ensure we are relevant in all key territories from a seasonal standpoint

What We Are Looking For

• Genuine passion for ECommerce – you come with an innate enthusiasm for ECommerce and you have a curious mindset and a tangible awareness of market trends
• Experience in using a CMS – you’re well versed in working with a CMS and confident using it effectively
• Best-in-class stakeholder management skills – you’re able to build impactful and lasting relationships with a range of senior colleagues and tailor your tone and approach as required
• Excellent attention to detail – you can deliver tasks with skill, accuracy and urgency without compromising accuracy and quality
• Adept at multitasking – you back your ability to prioritise your time and work across multiple projects concurrently
• Data-first mindset – you’re equipped with data analysis skills to track and optimise content performance
• True team player – you thrive when you’re collaborating with colleagues across a range of different departments

Why choose us

At Arsenal, We Want Everyone To Feel a Sense Of Trust And Belonging, So We Are Proud Of Both Our Club Values And Also What We Offer To Our Employees. As One Of Our Gunners, You Will Receive

• An exciting reward and recognition scheme
• Generous holiday allowance which increases with your length of service
• Great internal learning and development programmes
• A flexible hybrid working model
• Priority access to apply for match tickets
• A competitive health and wellbeing benefits package
• A leading Employee Assistance Programme
• Great discounts with some of our Partners

Arsenal for Everyone

Arsenal for Everyone is our commitment to promoting and embracing equality, diversity and inclusion, so that everyone connected to the club feels like they belong to the same Arsenal family. We believe that diversity of background, skills and experience drives our success on and off the pitch.?

Disability Confident Leader

We are a Disability Confident Leader. We actively welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you need disability-related adjustments to the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application.

If you are likely to meet the definition of being a ‘disabled person’ according to the Equality Act 2010, you may be eligible to apply for an interview via the Disability Confident Scheme – please indicate this in your application form below. The information you share with us about your health or disability will not be used in recruitment decisions.

Application Closing Date – Friday 21st February 2025

Please note: we reserve the right to close the position early if application volumes are particularly high. We encourage you to get your application in sooner rather than later.

Good luck!