Online Trading Manager

Asda Stores Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched

Car allowance £5,700

15% colleague discount in store and on

Wellbeing services access (Stream, 24/

Employee assistance helpline

Allies Inclusion Networks

Parental leave policies

Job summary

Asda Stores Ltd is seeking an Online Trading Manager to lead the online sales team at Asda House, Leeds. This hybrid, full-time role focuses on driving profit, optimizing product onboarding, and delivering impactful ranging strategies to maximise customer demand.

The position offers a competitive package and a 37.5-hour week with a fixed-term contract. You will collaborate with trading and marketing teams to accelerate conversion, manage end-to-end activity, and ensure an excellent customer

Qualifications

• Buying, merchandising or eComm experience preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead the online sales team and manage profit targets for GM Soft lines.
• Develop and deliver departmental ranging strategies to maximise customer demand and profit.
• Oversee product onboarding with customer-focused information and key features.
• Manage visual merchandising across the site with clear taxonomy and PLPs.

Skills

Buying experience

Merchandising

E-commerce

Analytical

Communication

Change agile

Job description

Job Title: Online Trading Manager

Location: Asda House, Leeds

Employment Type: Full time

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Hours Per Week: 37.5

Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits

Closing Date: 5 October 2026

Category: Key Account Sales

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the team responsible for online sales and profit targets for GM Soft lines.
• Develop, shape and deliver departmental ranging strategies to maximise customer demand whilst growing profit contribution for the channel short to long term.
• Oversee the Product onboarding process ensuring that all product information is customer focussed, highlights key selling features and accurate.
• Responsible for visual merchandising across the site, showcasing the product to make shopping easy ensuring all taxonomy, categories and PLP's are effectively merchandised.
• Champion end to end execution for all activity ensuring full availability and optimum customer experience onsite.
• Working closely with core trading teams, and marketing teams to manage in season trading.
• Be an expert on our online customer and competitor landscape, understand behaviour to build relevant activity plans that maximise commercial benefit, focusing on customer acquisition, retention, and brand loyalty.
• Look for opportunities to increase conversion rate, cross sales and drive bigger baskets.
• Understand and utilise the insight from analytical merchandising, industry insight and market data to deliver a visual merchandising approach that maximises sales.
• Plays a key role for the Online Trade & Merchandise team in relevant key strategic projects and meetings, including senior GM cross functional weekly reviews.
• Be obsessed about our purpose and our customers “Find your everything at Asda” - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach.

Requirements & Skills

• Buying, merchandising or eComm experience preferred but not essential.
• Analytical and data driven, skilled in using data to make informed decisions and optimise results.
• Be a strong communicator with great personal skills to work with people at all levels – not just in our business, but also beyond it.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to manage change and drive results.
• You will be agile and an effective decision maker, willing to move, fail and learn fast.

Everything You'll Love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.

Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• Company Car allowance of £5,700
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

Company Culture & Values

We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day.

Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.

Career Opportunities

Asda is Reimagining Retail It’s hard for anyone to imagine how many different career possibilities there are at Asda. Ours is a big business, and beyond the roles you might be familiar with there are hundreds more you don’t often get to see. In fact, because our business is changing we're creating new roles all the time!