# Trading Manager

**Company**: Marks & Spencer
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We’re looking for a strong Trading Manager to help shape the future of Fashion, Home & Beauty in this influential global role at the heart of Commercial & Operations.

You’ll bring strategic thinking and operational expertise to high-impact transformation workstreams, helping turn our trade plan into stronger sales and sustainable profit.

Working across business units and channels, you’ll help coordinate the FH&B trade and activity plans while influencing end-to-end pricing, stock clearance and day-to-day trading decisions.

You’ll build strong partnerships with Retail, Sparks, Marketing, CIU, Online, Logistics, Finance and D&T, bringing clarity and momentum to complex priorities.

This is an opportunity to make a visible commercial impact,combining insight, pace and adaptability to guide strategic projects, respond to changing trading conditions and maximise profitable growth.

**Key Accountabilities:**

- Close cross-functional working with CIU, all BU’s, Marketing, Retail and the Food Group to drive an 18-month forward trading calendar, ensuring alignment across all business areas for key trading dates.

- Shaping in season clearance and sale strategy across all channels and BU’s alongside the Pricing & Promotions team to ensure stock into sale, sell through and profit targets are finely balanced.

- Key role in leading the co-ordination and governance of a new E2E pricing strategy to ensure we land trusted value form cradle to grave of all product.

- Involvement at various stages of the cross-BU seasonal ATL campaign process to support tighter governance, ‘right first time’ execution and insightful reporting.

- Partnership with Finance teams to analyse, model and review the commercial effectiveness of promotions and to make recommendations for future mechanics and tactical trading responses to best utilise the C&H promotional budget.

- Review and analysis of the current in-season trading performance working with the BU’s/channels/Sparks to adapt and adjust in response to changing customer mindsets and market conditions.

**Requirements:**

- Strong commercial and trading acumen alongside confident analytical ability

- Experience in building effective stakeholder relationships at all levels and working collaboratively across multiple functions to achieve a consensus and deliver an end goal

- Highly organised self-starter that’s capable of working independently as well as playing a key role in a high performing trading team

- Strong decision making and influencing skills

- Previous merchandising and/or online/store leadership experience is desirable

- Data centric and process driven

## Skills

### Required
- commercial acumen
- analytical ability
- stakeholder relationships
- organisational skills
- decision making
- influencing skills
- merchandising
- online/store leadership
- data analysis

### Nice to have
- previous merchandising and/or online/store leadership experience

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