Ecommerce Merchandiser

Here at **Hobbycraft,**we are looking for an**Ecommerce Merchandiser** to join the team based at our Head Office in **Christchurch. **You will join us on a **full time, permanent **basis. Our core businesshours are Monday to Friday - 9am to 5pm but we have a flexible approach to start and finish times. Our hybrid working model is 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home.

**In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £24,000pa + pension with a 4% contribution, 25 days holiday increasing every year, 25% discount in our stores, hybrid working policy, Dog friendly office and many more**

**What can we offer our Ecommerce Merchandiser?**
- Competitive Salary
- 25% Discount Card for Hobbycraft Stores and Haskins
- Hybrid working policy
- Free Onsite Parking
- Dog Friendly Office
- EV Charging Point
- Free Hot Drinks
- 33 days holiday inclusive of Bank Holidays with an increase each holiday year
- Birthday Day Off
- Company pension contribution - up to 4% contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme provide by Retail Trust
- Cash Health Plan with Health Shield
- Contribution towards eyesight test and glasses
- Subsidised gym membership
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Long service awards and gifts
- Continuous training and development
- Colleague Wellness Programme
- A creative working environment
- Colleague Social Events

**About the role**:
As our **Ecommerce Merchandiser,** you will execute an effective online merchandising engine that ensures products and categories are presented to customers in an inspiring and commercial way, based on data and industry trends. You will workclosely with our Product Content Manager, Site Search Manager, Digital Design and Content Manager as well as our partners in Buying to bring to life our product assortment for multiple categories on the website with best products at low prices in a consumercentric way.

**Your responsibilities as ourEcommerce Merchandiser**:

- All on site merchandising, implementation, and on-going management of the site Merchandising for multiple product categories
- Ongoing management of site taxonomy, and attribution, working closely with the wider teams to ensure we’re offering relevant products and categories in the most shoppable way in-line with SEO requirements
- Planning and execution of strategies for category management and optimisation, setting and testing rules to improve performance
- Producing weekly and monthly reporting & analysis on site performance, in-depth category and product performance and highlighting opportunities and underperformance along with actions to deliver results
- Working closely with the teams to execute the website calendar, promoting products and collections in-line with the wider marketing teams strategies monitoring and reporting on performance
- Competitor research and suggestion of possible site improvements / a/b tests to improve key website metrics
- Ensuring we have a best-in-class website and identify issues and snags - reporting anything to the dev team to fix
- Using tools to study customer behaviour and identify improvements to the customer journey

**What we're looking for in our Ecommerce Merchandiser**:

- Ideal role for an individual with hands-on proven experience in online retail
- Strong organisational skills - able to plan and allocate resource for multiple categories, products and projects and develop working practices to ensure continued process improvement
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work as part of a team and influence delivery and change
- Analytical, numerate and results orientated with good commercial and KPI understanding and experience using Google Analytics
- Fast learner, with an ability to work at pace and adapt to change in a fast-paced retail environment with tight deadlines

If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, click '**Apply**' now to be considered as our **Ecommerce Merchandiser**:

- we'd love to hear from you