Online Trading Assistant

Your new role
**What are you here to do?**

**You will be supporting the online Trading plan to generate online sales activity and support the achievement of business goals and KPI’s.**

**How will you do it?**

**Working within the Sofology Online Trading Team you will execute best in class online merchandising through excellent management of the online journey for products, categories, pages and searches.**

**How will I know if I am doing a good job?**

**Our Online Trading opportunities are realised and sales plan is achieved whilst providing the best online merchandising experience is provided.**

What you'll be doing
- **You’ll treat our customers and Sofologists like they are family, offering pizazz with every experience.**
- **You'll leave no stone unturned on your quest to give your customers the rock star treatment, challenging the ‘we’ve always done it this way’ mindset at every opportunity.**
- **You’ll be working collaboratively with the Senior Online Trading Manager to execute the online trading plan that drives sales performance.**
- **You will immerse yourself in analytics such as google, Content Square and insights to ensure everything you do is driven by data.**
- **You’ll be identifying where revenue can be increased by improving product pages, search results, product list page and category page content.**
- **You will actively know how product ranges are performing and be actively proposing online trading activities to the Online Trading team.**
- **You will be delivering best in class online merchandising for our customers by QA’ing banners, link and ,pages, ensuring issues are resolved with the customer journey.**
- **You will be a key person in our trading team, maximizing cross-selling opportunities across all categories of the site. responsible for site search and results. failed searches and working with the team on synonym reviews.**
- **Working with the Senior Online Trading Manager you will ensure all SEO content elements are updated. Maximizing website, category and product SEO through best practise optimisations.**
- **You will be reviewing Weekly search, navigation and SEO analytics, recommending optimisations and opportunities.**

Skills/experience.....
- **You need to be easy going, and just generally great fun to work with. In this role you’ll be working closely with our Trading and Marketing teams.**
- **Your passion is naturally contagious and you enjoy working in a fun and creative environment where everyone’s voice is heard.**
- **We’re down to earth but like to make things happen and fast, so it’s important you are to as you’ll be working proactively with teammates to improve processes and work methods for greater efficiency.**
- **Embrace our grow or glow mindset - there really is a career for anyone at Sofology.**
- **Constantly thinking outside of the box. A super user of the CMS platform; proactively drive a stream of ongoing efficiencies and enhancements to the system.**
- **You will build new content in line with SEO best practices, exceptional testing and attention to ensure our bold designs and all content on the website launches correctly and on time.**
- **Don’t be afraid to think bold - we’re ambitious at Sofology and want to stand out from the crowd. We’re always looking for individuals that can bring fresh and innovative thinking to Sofology, and play a part in driving the DFS group forward on its exciting journey. So, if you’re ready to take the next big step in your career, challenge yourself every day and help us evolve the Sofology brand then this role is for you.**
- **.You will ensure that product listing pages are effectively merchandised, on brand, optimized and in line with brand guidelines, visual merchandising and trading strategies.**

A little about sofology
At Sofology, sofas are SO our thing - but so are our people In fact, people are our greatest asset and that’s why we are completely committed to our ED&I strategy, So For All. We are working passionately with all of our colleagues across the business to learn, understand and be completely enthralled into continuing to make Sofology an equal, diverse and inclusive place to work.

It’s important to us to make sure that we don’t just look for new talent to ‘fit in’ with our culture, but instead, we look for incredible talented colleagues to ‘add’ to our wonderful culture.

Sofology benefits
- A great basic salary & a very generous team bonus
- Professional Qualifications Learning & Development
- LEAD programme
- 30% discount across the group & 15% for friends & family
- High street Discounts with 100’s of great brands
- Contributory Healthcare
- Pension
- Employee Assistance Programme for all colleagues & your household
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
- Discuss flexible working & part time opportunities
- Company Apple Ipad