Online Trading Manager - Marketplace

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading grocery retailer in the UK is seeking a Trading Manager responsible for managing online trading performance and content for Marketplace. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of E-commerce experience and a strong capability in data-driven decision making. This role supports a blend of on-site and remote work, offering a competitive benefits package including a bonus scheme and private medical insurance.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary

Holiday starting at 25 days plus personal day

Private medical insurance

Free 24/7 virtual GP service

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in trading/content roles.
• Experience in commercial customer-facing environments.
• Familiarity with agile working methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage the onsite trade plan for Marketplace.
• Analyze trading performance and content decisions.
• Collaborate with marketing for effective product promotions.
• Develop relationships with digital product and technology teams.

Skills

Online trading

Data driven decision making

E-commerce passion

Advanced Reporting capability

Team Management

Tools

Adobe Analytics

Job description

Tesco UK • Shire Park, Kestral Way, Welwyn Garden City • Permanent • Apply by 17-Dec-2025

Marketplace is a key pillar of our strategy to be 'Easily the Most Convenient' grocer, offering customers the opportunity to shop from a broad range of 3rd party products seamlessly on one website and app. The Trading Manager will be responsible for managing on-site content and the customer journey in selected trading events, whilst maintaining the always on trading calendar in the wider team.

What is in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years' service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

You will be responsible for

• Delivery of the onsite trade plan and customer journey for Marketplace, whilst co‑ordinating with the Grocery Home Shopping trade team to plan effective use of digital real estate across the online businesses matched to customer mindset.
• Manage the trading performance of Marketplace, and become the go to person for category performance, content deepdives and weekly trade performance.
• Using digital data through Adobe to inform content decisions and planning of future content, along with SEO reporting to drive impressions and conversion.
• Manage the planning and execution of content changes with Marketplace sellers, building and developing relationships with the Seller Growth team through the product nominations cycle.
• Work collaboratively with our Marketing team to connect hero products into owned and paid channels for weekly trade and key seasonal events.
• Working closely with Marketplace operations and search and browse team to ensure products are merchandised correctly across the site to aid an expanding Marketplace product catalogue.
• Developing and managing collaborative relationships with digital product and technology teams to drive capability improvements for trade and content delivery. Manage the planning and delivery of a continuous range of A/B tests to feed into future content plans and strategies, as well as continuous improvement.
• Working with the wider Online Trading team in emerging spaces such as Personalisation and Segmentation to drive future thinking of content planning and execution.
• Champion agile methodologies and AI thinking to drive sophisticated idea generation to help shape the future of content.
• Managing and developing the Marketplace Trade Executive to develop within role and beyond.

You will need

• Prior experience in Online trading
• Experience across Food and / or Non Food businesses
• Actively using analytics to make data driven decisions.
• A passion for E-commerce / digital with 5+ years experience in trading / content roles.
• Experience in a commercial environment in a customer facing role.
• Advanced Reporting capability through Adobe and / or other supporting programmes and tools
• Agile working.
• Team Management, including development of colleagues.

About us

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