Reports to: eCommerce Manager

Job Purpose:
Are you looking to pursue a career in the exciting world of retail? Then look no further! The Range Home, Leisure and Garden was started in 1989 by owner Chris Dawson and has since grown into a chain of 45 superstores selling everything that a customer would ever need for their home, leisure or garden. With plans to expand our online offering through the development of a new website, a position has opened up within the busy eCommerce department.

Responsibilities include:

• - Taking complete ownership of a department/departments online offering
• - Planning stock availability for new and existing products.
• - Working cross functionally with the buying team(s) to make decisions regarding product range/selection
• - Writing quality product descriptions that are optimised for search engines (SEO)
• - Liaising with suppliers to source images/product specifications for products to go online
• - Editing product images prior to upload
• - Uploading product images and descriptions to the website using the website's content management system (training to be provided)
• - Liaising with the marketing department to source photography for products where images are not available from the supplier
• - Make recommendations to refine and develop product page merchandising and presentation
• - Managing the meta-data and keywords for individual products to ensure effective organic search indexing
• - Analysing Google analytics to identify opportunities for new department categories/products to go online
• - Driving quality traffic to the website.

The ideal candidate will possess:

• - Excellent organisational and communication skills, with a good eye for detail
• - Commercially aware to maximise sales and profit opportunities
• - Previous online or in-store retail experience
• - The ability to communicate with a number of various stakeholders across a number of different departments
• - The ability to work closely with our outside agencies, suppliers and other departments to co-ordinate and collate product information
• - The ability to work effectively under pressure and to severely tight deadlines
• - An excellent command of written and spoken English with copy accuracy
• - A confident manner especially when in meetings and on the phone
• - Knowledge of Photoshop and HTML would be preferential
• - Excellent knowledge of MS office
• - The ability to self-manage and work as an individual taking ownership of a project or area of the website

Hours Work:
Monday to Friday 08:45 - 17:30

Start Date
ASAP.

Location:
Plymouth, Devon

Application:
Please send your CV to the following address;
Mark Andrews
eCommerce Manager
CDS Superstores (International) Ltd
Thornbury Road
Estover Plymouth
PL6 7PT
Or alternatively you can email your CV to mandrews@therange.co.uk