Trade Marketing Executive

The Very Group; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, hybrid working model

25% discount on Very.co.uk

27 days holiday + bank holidays

LinkedIn Learning access

Bonus potential (performance)

Matched pension up to 6%

£250 flexible benefits allowance

Job summary

The Very Group is seeking a fast-paced Trading & Performance specialist to focus on in-flight trading and a four-week planning window. You will work with Category, Commercial, Onsite Merchandising, Creative and Marketing to keep activities relevant and commercially focused.

You will use performance data to spot opportunities, drive briefs, and ensure timely execution across the homepage, Offers Zone and promotional activity. Strong cross-functional communication is essential.

Qualifications

• A strong interest in understanding what drives performance and actions.
• Proactive self-starter who identifies opportunities and raises briefs.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, reactive trading environment.
• Strong attention to detail when managing multiple live changes and documenting activity.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain awareness of business and category performance using trading insights.
• Identify opportunities and raise briefs with category and commercial teams.
• Own homepage and Offers Zone as the most trade-responsive areas.
• Ensure onsite activity remains relevant and commercially effective.
• Align messaging and onsite execution with current performance and priorities.
• Prepare Jira briefs with clear rationale and timings for timely launches.
• Lead in-flight optimization based on performance insights.
• Conduct regular competitor and market reviews to inform responses.
• Keep trading documentation live and accurate with changes.
• Communicate changes clearly across stakeholders to maintain a single view.

Skills

Data-driven

Commercial mindset

Cross-functional working

Attention to detail

Stakeholder communication

Tools

ContentSquare

CMI

GA4

Excel

Job description

About us

Internal use only: Grade G

We'rethe team behind digital retailerVery.

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 outour 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 foundon our career site

Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly, and if successful in securing this role, you will be required to undertake a credit, CIFAS, Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need todisclosein relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken, including any unspent criminal convictions.

Diversity,inclusionand equal opportunities

We're building 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 [e-mail]. We'll be happy to support you.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employerand 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.