Horizontal Trading Manager

Arlington Administrative Assistance; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic individual to join their Horizontal Trading team. This role involves optimizing promotional activities to enhance customer engagement and drive business growth. You will collaborate with various teams, ensuring that promotional strategies are effectively executed and aligned with company goals. Your project management skills will be crucial as you navigate through cross-functional initiatives and leverage data insights to improve operational efficiency. If you are passionate about creating value and have a knack for building relationships, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Strong project management experience with ability to implement operational plans.
• Experience in developing plans to drive commercial objectives.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and deliver initiatives across different business functions.
• Use data to find opportunities to scale and optimise promotional activity.

Skills

Project Management

Data Analysis

Operational Planning

Relationship Building

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Spreadsheets

Job description

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

Overview

The Horizontal Trading team is responsible for developing and scaling trading and loyalty levers which drive growth and retention of buyers and sellers. We plan and execute a quarterly calendar of promotional activity and incentives intended to deliver relevance, value for customers, and drive business performance in partnership with marketing and category management teams.

You will be responsible for ensuring the onsite experience is optimised for promotional activity. You will work cross functionally to ensure that category teams are engaged on providing relevant promotional inventory at a competitive price and that the marketing teams are engaged on the trade calendar, so that we are set-up to showcase relevant promotions. Additionally you will feed into value led product development, to ultimately answer the question, how can we develop the onsite experience to showcase value better? Then work with our product manager to drive through value led product development.

You will accomplish :

• Incremental GMV growth
• Improvements in spend efficiency and ROI
• Optimised conversion and CTRs on landing pages
• Scaling seller participation in promotions
• Operational innovation

Through...

• Partnering with category managers, so they are well aligned on the trading calendar and ensure that the nominated promotional activity is of a good standard.
• Facilitate cross functional meetings to ultimately ensure that we execute trading plans as expected
• Play a lead role within the horizontal team, ensure that operational processes are followed as best as possible. Act as a point of escalation if required
• Coordinate with supporting functions such as marketing and merchandising teams to ensure promotional activities are delivered on time and with impact
• Use data to find opportunities to scale and optimise promotional activity further
• Strive for operational excellence by optimising processes with a view to improving efficiency and reducing errors.
• Understand the eBay customer, and help to instill a customer-first approach within the team and wider business.
• Engage with product teams to lobby for developments which will benefit value/promotional activity.
• Balance trade-offs between business needs and technical constraints, gaining consensus from partners along the way.

What you will bring ...

We would love to hear from you if you have strong project management experience with an ability to build & implement operational plans as you will be required to co-ordinate & deliver initiatives across different business functions. Ability to work through ambiguity and make decisions based on logical reasoning and/or data insights.

Experience in developing & delivering plans to drive commercial objectives that ladder up towards the achievement of overall company-wide business goals is key. Plus an ability to build and sustain relationships across all functions and levels in an organisation, to ensure flawless integration and execution of plans.

Self-sufficient action and results orientated, you will make data driven decisions to get results. Confident with spreadsheets, you will have a phenomenal eye for detail and be comfortable working in a dynamic environment.

And of course - a love for eBay as a Buyer and Seller plus a passion for customers & ability to link to day-to-day role!

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