Senior Trader - International - 12 month FTC - London, Greater London

Senior Trader - International - 12 month FTC - London, Greater LondonEveryone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.

Summary

We’re seeking a commercially driven and passionate International Senior Trader / Merchandiser to join our fast-paced International team at M&S. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our global omnichannel strategy, bringing our iconic Clothing, Food, and Home products to over 32 million customers worldwide. You’ll play a key role in driving profitable growth across diverse markets, collaborating with Buying, Merchandising, Partnership teams, and Logistics to deliver a globally relevant range. With product at the heart of everything we do, your market insight, commercial eye, and strategic planning will be instrumental in delivering success.

All the details

We’re seeking a commercially driven and passionate International Senior Trader / Merchandiser to join our fast-paced International team at M&S. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our global omnichannel strategy, bringing our iconic Clothing, Food, and Home products to over 32 million customers worldwide. You’ll play a key role in driving profitable growth across diverse markets, collaborating with Buying, Merchandising, Partnership teams, and Logistics to deliver a globally relevant range. With product at the heart of everything we do, your market insight, commercial eye, and strategic planning will be instrumental in delivering success. In this role, you’ll be responsible for leading a trading team in a Business Unit – setting budgets, managing order books, and maintaining forecasts. You’ll identify risks and opportunities through rigorous weekly trade routines, share international performance insights, and challenge our partners to optimise sales. You’ll manage and develop your high-performing team, championing consistent and efficient ways of working to support the delivery of a truly global M&S brand.

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…

• After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you will do

To contribute to the maximisation of international sales, through the effective planning, selling, and trading of a global product range that delivers profitability at channel, range and option level, for M&S as well as for our International partners.

• Drive profitable International growth across all International channels and lead the creation and delivery of an International product strategy, driving sales across all global routes to market (including marketplaces, order-based markets, and D2C) in line with the wider International business strategy.
• Identify and deliver product requirements that meet partner and market needs, ensuring global ranges, compliance, and seasonal product reviews are right first time.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Buying, and Category teams to plan production capacity, optimise routes to market, and maximise trading efficiency.
• Drive International sales performance, ensuring accurate partner buying data, cohesive range selections, and strong trading plans for online channels.
• Own stock and trading performance, ensuring timely delivery, proactive reforecasting, and maximisation of international sales opportunities through data-led insights.
• Provide strong leadership to International Trading teams, building capability, driving consistency, and embedding One Best Way of working across all business units.

Who you are

• Proven experience managing an operational area with full P&L responsibility, driving commercial performance and growth.
• Strong leadership skills, with a track record of motivating, developing, and inspiring high-performing teams.
• Commercially and analytically minded, with the ability to interpret data, understand key metrics, and use insights to maximise sales and future growth.
• Excellent relationship builder and communicator, able to influence and collaborate effectively across business units, franchisees, international teams, and suppliers.
• Highly organised and product-focused, with strong production planning skills, critical path management experience, and proficiency in relevant IT systems.

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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