Ecommerce Executive

Debenhams Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive bonus

Company pension

Share schemes

Private medical cover

Life assurance

On-site gym

Free weekly Pilates/yoga/fitness

Brand discounts

Wellbeing package

Dog-friendly offices

Learning & progression

On-site canteen

Season ticket loan

Job summary

Debenhams Group is seeking an Ecommerce Executive to provide interim support within the busy digital trading team. This fixed-term role focuses on executing trading activity, understanding customers, and optimising the user journey across Debenhams sites and apps during peak periods.

You will work closely with Marketing and IT to deliver promotions, analyse performance, and adapt trading to multiple markets, while contributing to a dynamic and growing fashion retail platform.

Qualifications

• Experience in ecommerce or retail environments is desirable.
• Basic Excel skills and ability to troubleshoot issues.
• Strong communication skills and ability to represent the brand.
• Capable of working in a team and collaborating across functions.
• Ability to manage time independently in a dynamic environment.
• Genuine interest in fashion and retail trends.

Responsibilities

• Execute the website promotional plan and publish banners/content across sites and apps.
• Monitor web analytics and help produce performance reports with actionable insights.
• Collaborate with Marketing to support campaigns, promo codes, and capsule launches.
• Support IT to evolve trading functionality across devices and platforms.
• Adapt trading activity to different markets to maximise sales.
• Conduct ad-hoc market research and share findings with Senior Trading Executive.

Skills

Ecommerce experience

Retail experience

Excel

Strong communication

Team player

Independent

Interest in fashion

Job description

Description

At Debenhams Group, we are a diverse portfolio of five core brands (boohoo, boohooMAN, PrettyLittleThing, Karen Millen, and Debenhams) alongside a dynamic marketplace model and a growing financial services division, it keeps us pretty busy!

We don’t stand still, we lead, evolve, and redefine online fashion. With bold ambitions and big energy, we’re on a mission to be the best, delivering the strongest propositions to our customers in the most engaging, innovative, and efficient ways possible.

We thrive on change, innovation, and pace. Every challenge is an opportunity, and every day is a chance to push boundaries. If you’re someone who embraces the unknown, thrives in a fast-moving, high-growth environment, and is ready to shape the future of retail, you’ll love it here. We want visionaries, disruptors, and doers, people who bring fresh thinking, relentless energy, and the drive to make an impact.

Be brave. Be creative. Be a community.

The Role

We’re looking for an Ecommerce Executive to join our busy digital trading team at Debenhams, to provide interim support during our busy peak period. Please note this is an interim role and you will be on a fixed term contract for 3 months.

As an Ecommerce Executive you will not only implement, but also monitor the ecommerce trading activity across our Debenhams site. This role focuses on understanding our customers so we can give them the right offers at the right time, while managing site trading and testing experiences to optimise the user journey in a fast-paced environment.

Your Team

The Ecommerce team is a talented and driven function focused on implementing day-to-day trading activity across our websites and apps globally. We collaborate closely with Marketing, IT, and cross-functional teams to drive sales, optimise user experience, and support wider business growth.

What you will be doing:

• Implement the execution of the website promotional plan, setting promotional banners and content live across all sites & apps.
• Monitor web analytics and help produce reports to measure performance and make recommendations for change.
• Work closely with Marketing to support all channels activity through promotional code creation, competitions & capsule launches.
• Support IT to develop & evolve the functionality of all devices.
• Demonstrate an awareness of the different markets and adapt trading activity to maximise sales for the different customers in each market.
• Conduct ad-hoc research on competitors in the different markets and the trading conditions and send this information to the Senior Trading Executive.

What we’re looking for:

• Ecommerce or retail experience is desirable.
• Computer literate with a basic understanding of Excel and ability to troubleshoot issues.
• Strong communicator who is dynamic, adaptable, and acts as an ambassador for the brand.
• A team player with a strong collaborative mindset and a pro-active attitude.
• Ability to work independently, manage own time effectively, and adapt in a dynamic environment.
• A genuine interest in fashion and retail.

Why Debenhams Group?

Our mission is to create a workplace where everyone is respected, individual differences are valued, and people can be themselves at work — without exception.

2025 was a year of significant change for the Group. 2026 is about bold moves, real results and unstoppable momentum. If that excites you, you belong at Debenhams Group.

Our benefits include (subject to level and eligibility):

• Highly competitive bonus scheme, company pension, share schemes, private medical cover and life assurance
• Access to an on-site gym and free weekly Pilates, yoga and fitness classes
• Discount across all brands
• Comprehensive wellbeing package
• Dog-friendly offices (in selected locations)
• Ongoing learning and development with strong internal progression
• On-site canteen serving breakfast, lunch, snacks and hot drinks
• Free season ticket loan