Contract - Digital Commerce Consultant/Strategist

Sphere Digital Recruitment Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned recruitment agency is seeking a Digital Commerce Consultant/Strategist to enhance digital commerce performance in London. The successful candidate will lead strategies, shape market playbooks, and collaborate across teams to deliver measurable outcomes. Ideal applicants have extensive digital commerce experience, knowledge of retail media, and the ability to manage multiple projects effectively. This position is hybrid and involves engaging with global stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Practical knowledge of how to activate and win with key retailers.
• Experience in building eJBP programmes for priority customers.
• Strategic mindset to hit KPIs and streamline delivery.
• Hands-on exposure to digital shelf technologies and content management systems.
• Comfortable partnering with diverse client functions (sales, marketing) and navigating challenges.
• Strategic mindset to hit KPIs, streamline delivery, and automate where sensible.
• Strong multi-project management delivering on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Lead digital commerce excellence across markets and channels.
• Align global and local teams and communicate progress.
• Support and mentor junior talent and foster collaboration.
• Build market and customer blueprints for repeatable rollout using agile test-and-learn to refine strategy.
• Align global and local teams, maintain prioritisation frameworks, and report progress to leadership.
• Manage scope and delivery end-to-end, contribute to QBRs, award entries, and new business materials.
• Stay updated on retail media and commerce trends, identify growth opportunities and partner solutions.
• Provide client insights to solutions roadmap and maintain knowledge assets across the team.
• Mentor junior talent and collaborate with adjacent teams such as Retail Media and Commerce Strategy.

Skills

Broad experience across digital commerce channels

Knowledge of retail media, content, data and analytics

Hands-on exposure to digital shelf technologies

Strong multi-project management skills

Digital shelf tech

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Multi-project management

Tools

Reporting tools

Job description

Overview

Contract - Digital Commerce Consultant/Strategist. Sphere Digital Recruitment Group provides pay range information; your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience. Start: ASAP. Location: London, hybrid with global stakeholders.

Role summary

You will accelerate digital commerce performance across priority markets, shaping strategy, translating data into action, and ensuring global to local alignment. You will design market playbooks, establish reporting in new markets, and collaborate across internal and external teams to drive measurable commercial outcomes. The role combines advanced analytics with pragmatic execution, balancing quick wins with long-term growth while influencing senior stakeholders and developing scalable best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead digital commerce excellence, providing a consultative viewpoint on where and how to win across markets, portfolios, and channels
• Own expert guidance across key channels, for example eGrocery, pureplay, q-commerce, and specialist beverage retailers
• Turn digital shelf reporting into clear, commercial narratives, deploying reporting tech in new markets and embedding adoption
• Build market and customer blueprints for repeatable, best-in-class rollout, using agile test and learn to refine strategy
• Align global and local teams, maintain prioritisation frameworks, and communicate progress to leadership
• Manage scope and delivery end-to-end, contribute to QBRs, award entries, and new business materials
• Stay on top of retail media and commerce trends, identifying growth opportunities and partner solutions
• Feed client insights to the solutions roadmap and help maintain knowledge assets across the team
• Support and mentor junior talent, foster collaboration with adjacent teams such as Retail Media and Commerce Strategy

You, skills and experience

• Broad experience across digital commerce channels, with practical knowledge of how to activate and win with key retailers
• Track record across retail media, content, data and analytics, shopper and in-store, and retailer relationships
• Knowledge of building eJBP programmes for priority customers
• Hands-on exposure to digital shelf technologies and content management systems
• Comfortable partnering with diverse client functions, for example sales and marketing, and navigating common challenges
• Strategic mindset, able to spot opportunities to hit KPIs, streamline delivery, and automate where sensible
• Strong multi-project management, delivering on time and within budget to client expectations

Behaviours

• Curious, ownership of learning, uplifting team capability
• Adaptable, collaborative, comfortable in a fast-paced agency setting
• Creative and strategic thinker, brings new ideas to overcome challenges

How to apply

Send your CV and a short note on your most impactful ecommerce initiative, including the problem, your approach, and the commercial outcome. Shortlisted profiles will be contacted for an initial conversation.

Client name has been anonymised. Full details shared with qualified candidates under NDA if required.

Sphere Digital Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.