Trade Marketing Executive

The-Very-Group; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits allowance

27 days holiday + bank holidays

LinkedIn Learning access

Bonus potential (performance)

Discount on Very.co.uk

Pension matched up to 6%

Job summary

The Very Group is looking for a commercially minded, proactive trading professional to manage in-flight trading and four-week window activity. You will work with Category, Commercial, Onsite Merchandising, Creative and Marketing to keep activity relevant and commercially focused.

You will identify opportunities, raise briefs, and optimise live activity based on performance insights, while maintaining clear trading plans and documentation across teams.

Qualifications

• Commercially curious and proactive in identifying opportunities.
• Able to balance planned priorities with emergent business needs.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Maintain awareness of business and category performance using trading insights.
• Proactively identify opportunities and raise briefs for new activity.
• Own homepage and Offers Zone coverage to stay responsive to trade changes.
• Ensure onsite activity remains relevant and commercially effective and adapts to market conditions.
• Own the lower-funnel marketing feed-in for promotions and align messaging with performance.
• Create accurate Jira briefs with clear rationale and timelines for teams.
• Lead in-flight optimisation of live activity using performance data.
• Regularly review competitors and market to inform responses.
• Keep all trading/activity docs live and updated with changes.
• Communicate changes across stakeholders to maintain a single trading plan.
• Complete staging and go-live site checks for relevant activity.

Skills

Commercial mindset

Self-starter

Fast-paced

Attention to detail

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven

Communication

Tools

ContentSquare

CMI

GA4

Excel

Job description

Internal use only: Grade G

About us

We’rethe team behind digital retailer Very.

Our purpose, helping families get more out of life, powers everything we do.

And we want our people to get more out of life too! Ifyou’rehigh-performing, ambitious and make the most of every opportunity, we want to hear from you. In return,you’llenjoy heaps of flexibility, greatperksand benefits, and the freedom to be yourself, keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go.

If you love making a difference,you’lllovemaking it sparkle for millions of Very customers.

About the team

We work closely with teams across the business to identify opportunities, optimise performance all starting with customer. It's an exciting time to join as we evolve this new role & give the focus to In-flight weekly trading and performance & build new processes,capabilitiesand shape how Retail plans, measures and improves performance.

About the role

This is a fast-paced, reactive role with a strong focus on understanding business performance, identifying emerging opportunitiesand ensuring activity responds quickly to changing customer, market and commercial priorities.

The role hasa primary focus onin-flight trading and the upcoming four-week window. Working closely withCategory,Commercial,Onsite Merchandising, Creative and wider Marketing teams, therolewill ensureactivity isrelevant, commercially focused and aligned to current business priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain a strong awareness ofbusiness and category performance, usingtrading insightsand performance data to understand wherenew activity,onsiteupdatesor optimisation is required.

• Proactively identify opportunitiesand work closely withcategory &commercial toraise briefs for new or changing activitythat can support performance, both in-flight and across the next four weeks.

• Own and manage the areas of the site that need to be mostresponsive to trade, customer behaviour and market changes, including the Homepage and Offers Zone.

• Ensure onsite activity remains relevant and commercially effective, reacting at pace where performance, stock, promotional priorities or market conditions change.

• Own thelower-funnel marketing feed-in for promotional activity, ensuring messaging, products and onsite execution are aligned to current performance and wider business priorities.

• Jira briefs andfeed into wider teams (includingCreative, Onsite Merchandising and other relevant teams)with accuracy, providingclear rationale, requirements and timings to enable activity to move at paceand launch on time.

• Own thein-flight optimisation of live activity, using performance insights to recommend changes to messaging, prominence or customer journeys where appropriate.

• Conduct regular competitor andmarket reviews, identifying relevant changes in proposition, promotional messaging, customer trends and onsite execution that could inform our response.

• Be responsible for ensuringall key trading and activity documentation remains live and accurate, capturing changes to activityas they happen.

• Ensure changes are clearly communicated acrossrelevant stakeholders so teams are working from a single, accurate view of the trading plan.

• Complete staging and go-live site checks for relevant activity, ensuring execution reflects the agreed brief and supports the intended customer journey.

• Track the impact of changes and interventions, feeding performance and learnings back into future in-flight decisions.

About you

• Commercially curious, with a strong interest in understandingwhat is driving performance and what action can be taken as a result.

• A proactive self-starter who is comfortable identifying opportunities and raising briefs rather than waiting for activity to be assigned.

• Able to operate effectively in a fast-paced, reactive trading environment, balancing plannedpriorities with emerging business needs.

• Strong attention todetail, particularly when managing multiple live changes and maintaining accurate documentation.

• Confident working cross-functionally and able to translate trading priorities into clear marketing and onsite actions.

• Comfortable using data and insight to make recommendations and challenge existing plans.

• Strong communication and coordination skills, with the ability to keep multiple stakeholders aligned as priorities evolve.

• Experience with tools such as ContentSquare, CMI, GA4 and Excel would be beneficial.

Some of our benefits

• Flexible, hybrid working model

• Inclusive culture and environment, check out our Glassdoor reviews

• £250 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs

• 27days holiday + bank holidays

• LinkedIn Learning access

• Bonus potential (performance and business-related)

• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk

• Matched pension up to 6%

• More benefits can be found on our career site

What happens next?

Ourtalentacquisition team will be in touch if you’resuccessful so keep an eye on youremails! We’ll arrange a short call to learn more about you, as well as answer any questions you have. If it feels like we’re a good match, we’ll shareyour CV with the hiring manager to review. Our interview process is tailored to each role and can be in-person or held remotely.

1st stage - Aone hourface-to-face interview with the hiring team to discuss your skills and relevant experience + competencyquestions. This is also a great opportunity to find out more aboutthe role and to ask any questions you may have.

As aninclusive employer please do let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

If you'd like to know more about our interviews, you can find out here.

Diversity,inclusionand equal opportunities

We’rebuilding a culture of everyday inclusion, and welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We don’t discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply, interview, or perform a role, let us know via [e-mail]. We’ll be happy to support you.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer and have nine brilliant colleague networks - including DAWN (Disability Awareness at Very) and Think (Neurodiversity at Very) - that are helping us make Very an even more inclusive place to work.