Digital Marketing/ Ecommerce Assistant

JR United Kingdom; Inverurie; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading quality food business in Inverurie seeks an eCommerce professional to support their online strategy. The role involves managing the website, optimizing for SEO, and ensuring operational stability. Ideal candidates will have a background in eCommerce and strong organizational skills. The company offers competitive benefits and values integrity and customer focus.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Company Pension

31 Days Annual Leave

Generous Staff Discount

Life Assurance

Employee Wellbeing Service

Paid Volunteering Day

Qualifications

• Understanding of design impact on customer experience.
• Previous experience in eCommerce or web development preferred.

Responsibilities

• Implementing eCommerce strategy and managing website optimization.
• Ensuring website operational stability and processing orders.
• Supporting marketing strategies and analyzing eCommerce metrics.

Skills

Organisational Skills

Attention to Detail

E-commerce Principles

Education

Qualification in Marketing

Digital Media

Web Development

Tools

BigCommerce

Shopify

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12.05.2025

Expiry Date:

26.06.2025

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Job Description:

Donald Russell is a quality food business with a rich heritage in butchery based in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. With three key arms to our business, we have been supplying hotel and restaurants groups in the UK since 1974 including Malmaison, Hotel Du Vin, 63rd, La Relais de Venise and The Goring to name a few. Our trade export arm exports to markets around the world including Europe and Asia, and we have been selling direct to consumers via our website and contact centre for almost 30 years.

The successful applicant will support the Ecommerce Manager with all things donaldrussell.com including implementing our ecommerce strategy to ensure accurate merchandising, maximum revenue generation, optimum conversion rates and stability/security for our website.

Main responsibilities include:

• Implementing the ecommerce strategy for the ecommerce platform, supporting the Ecommerce Manager to deliver the development roadmap for the website, monitoring projects and ensuring it is maintained and optimised to drive conversion and revenue on time and on budget.
• Assisting with all technical aspects of the website including ecommerce platform (Magento or BigCommerce), order processing, checkout, payment, search & discovery, personalisation, etc
• Ensuring the website is always operational and processing customer orders.
• Merchandising – managing all online products and pricing including implementation of fortnightly trade plan, updating website product copy and imagery, delivery dates, stock and discount codes.
• Supporting the Ecommerce Manager in the executing our CRO programme UX, UI and technical features to improve conversion rate and customer experience which adhere to brand guidelines.
• Ensuring all aspects of the website including products, page titles, sitemap, and meta descriptions are well optimised and maintained for SEO.
• Supporting the integrated marketing and product strategies across the website on time including landing page development and optimisation.
• Understanding all Ecommerce metrics for the website, including Site Speed, Pages per visit, bounce rate, conversion rate etc. and aid the Ecommerce Manager in analysing and presenting results.

Please note that this role is based in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire and as such candidates must be able to reliable commute each day.

About you:

To be successful in this role you should have;

• An understanding of design, with an understanding of the impact it can have on customer experience.
• Technically savvy with an understanding of e-commerce principles and platforms – preferable BigCommerce or Shopify.
• Excellent accuracy and a keen eye for detail.
• A can do attitude and proven organisational and project management skills, together with the ability to work under pressure, prioritise and adapt within a changing environment.
• A qualification in marketing, digital media, web development or other equivalent/relevant areas (preferred).
• Previous experience in an ecommerce, web development or product development role (preferred).

Over and above these requirements, it is hugely important that you share our values and behaviours; Treat every £ as your own, Honesty, Integrity, Unity and Customer focused.

Working for Donald Russell:

We offer some great perks and benefits including a competitive salary, company pension, 31 days annual leave - increasing to 34 days with service, generous staff discount, life assurance, an employee wellbeing service and a paid volunteering day each year.

We are also committed to building an inclusive workplace and as such support flexible working arrangements.