Assistant Brand Growth Manager - Fashion

About the role

Expected salary - up to £55,000 depending on experience

Contract type - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract/ Secondment

Working pattern/flexible working - The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The team aims for 2 days a week in the office to connect.

Location - This role is based at our London Head Office campus in Pimlico.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our E-Commerce Brands team as an Assistant Brand Growth Manager - Fashion on a 12 month fixed term contract/secondment.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a commercially astute, curious and analytical individual that maximises sales for our Fashion E-Commerce area.

This particular role is focused on supporting our Fashion E-Commerce Categories and their trade, which involves working with key stakeholders across the business and being responsible for coordinating and managing the key opportunities which surface for our most strategic brands across our mobile and desktop sites and our app.

You will support setting the strategic direction and outlining how Fashion Brands can grow at John Lewis, providing recommendations to deliver commercial targets and working with teams in Commercial, Customer, Content & Operations and Optimisation & Product to deliver these actions.

You will support articulating risks and opportunities to Brands performance looking forward, and analysis and recommendations from reviewing previous trading performance to maximise opportunities and minimise risks.

You will use your functional knowledge, providing insight that supports improved decision-making and prioritisation across Commercial, Digital and Customer teams. You will monitor performance and external benchmarks to ensure risks/opportunities are highlighted to stakeholders to improve existing Brand performance, new Brand business, on-site/app customer journeys or marketing tactic channel activity.

You will work closely with:

● Commercial Category Teams: Buying & Merchandising

● Digital Marketing

● Trade Marketing

● Trade Planning & Optimisation / PLO

● Insight & Analytics

● External Brands

We are looking for candidates who are comfortable with pulling, analysing, reading and communicating data. Candidates with experience with Adobe Analytics, Snowflake & Boxi would be preferable.

Essential skills/experience you’ll need

● Experience working with and influencing external brands

● E-Commerce experience - understands how to influence conversion, traffic and AOV through multiple digital and trading functions.

● Highly numerate and strong data-analysis orientation. Comfortable with interpreting complex data from multiple sources to provide clear recommendations.

● Strong commercial acumen.

● Influencing skills. Ability to build strong Stakeholder relationships both internally and externally

Desirable skills/experience you may have

● Boxi Proficiency

● Adobe Analytics Proficiency

● Direct experience working with suppliers in E-Commerce

Important points to note:

Internal Candidates - You can view a copy of the full job outline here

Partnership Secondment pay policy - Your existing benefits will remain unchanged during your secondment.

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About The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications, and therefore, we recommend you apply early. If you require a reasonable adjustment due to a disability which means you may need longer to complete your application please contact us as soon as possible.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.