# Assistant Trading Manager

**Company**: Marks & Spencer
**Location**: United Kingdom
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger – helping to deliver quality, value, and service to millions of customers every day.

As an Assistant Trading Manager, you will focus on driving the online trading strategy for your Categories across our UK & ROI markets, identifying key levers for growth, and working closely with Category Managers to drive optimisation and performance.

You will line manage 1 or 2 assistants, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate will bring onsite merchandising experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence and align teams around the onsite trading strategy.

**Responsibilities:**

- Own and drive your BU’s trading strategies with your Category Manager, including POAP, aligning with D&T, Content, and Optimisation.

- Identify opportunities for testing and optimisation improvements and lead initiatives to drive change across onsite trading.

- Own front-end & back-end tools and capabilities to drive optimisations.

- Work with Optimisation to drive change aligned to online strategy, collaborate to create a testing plan, and challenge stakeholders to maximise commercial impact for specific areas.

- Be accountable for the onsite execution of the trade calendar for your BU’s.

- Champion innovation and continuous improvement across the team, empowering others to take ownership to drive meaningful impact.

- Line manage 1 or 2 assistants, set clear objectives, provide regular feedback, and support career development.

- Oversee workload and guide Assistant Managers in supporting strategic projects.

**Requirements:**

- Comfortable challenging the status quo and driving change.

- Expert in onsite trading.

- Strong delegation, prioritisation, and coaching skills.

- Proven ability to build and maintain a high-performing, collaborative team culture.

- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

- Commercially astute with a data-driven approach to decision-making.

**Benefits:**

- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household.

- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more.

- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours.

- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future.

- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one.

- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal.

- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption, and neonatal leave.

- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services.

- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you.

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## Skills

### Required
- analytical skills
- onsite merchandising
- stakeholder management
- communication skills
- coaching skills

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