James Rogers
Bury,Lancashire
Summary
Detail-oriented Digital Trading Manager with experience analysing sales data and managing budgets. Demonstrates talent for identifying and seizing business opportunities to drive sales. Seeking a suitable position to utilise skills and drive business growth and success. Comfortable leading and developing the Digital Merchandising & Copywriting team to deliver efficient and accurate product ranges onsite.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
11
11
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Digital Outdoors Trading Manager
JD Outdoors
Bury, Lancashire
03.2020 - Current
- Support the Outdoors Digital Director to deliver sales and profitability KPIs.
- Provide and present weekly sales performance and in-week insights to maximise sales potential to all relevant stakeholders.
- Working directly with the finance team to agree on yearly sales, margin and profitability budgets, quarterly reforecasts and month-end reviews.
- Collaborating with key stakeholders to plan the eCommerce trading calendar, leading the delivery, and reporting of all onsite promotions.
- Work across the business to plan and execute seasonal campaigns, flash sales, and discount strategies.
- Work with marketing teams on paid ads (PPC), SEO, and email marketing to drive quality traffic.
- Manage the digital merchandising team to ensure the shortest possible time to site for new products while maintaining the required levels of accuracy and optimisation.
- Supply the warehouse team with weekly forecasts of order volumes to manage labour expenses while maintaining compliance with delivery service level agreements.
Senior Digital Merchandiser
JD Outdoors
Bury, Lancashire
06.2017 - 03.2020
- Providing key categories and sales performance to the various digital fascia leads.
- Overseeing the full digital merchandising function, identifying weekly and daily workflow for a team of six.
- Responsibility for ensuring on-site merchandising standards were being maintained, through search optimisation, product ranking rules & category maintenance.
- Ensured product time to site was kept to a minimum through streamlining daily processes for the merchandising and copywriting teams.
- Worked closely with the paid channels around the seasonal trading calendar and promoting relevant offers and events.
Digital Merchandiser
JD Outdoors
Bury, Lancashire
08.2013 - 05.2017
- Ensured regular site walks were carried out and saw any errors through to resolution.
- Managed the new product tracker daily, working with relevant copywriting and photography teams to keep time to site at a minimum.
- Set up and managed online promotions, including product selection and reporting on sales.
- Regularly reviewed the top search terms to ensure the best customer experience and to return the most relevant products.
- Worked with the Buying & Merchandising functions to answer customer care queries around specific products and optimise descriptions.
Assistant Digital Merchandiser
JD Sports
Bury, Lancashire
08.2012 - 07.2013
- Approved new products through the product information system with categories and other relevant attributes.
- Worked closely with the photo studio to track all products sent for photography had arrived and been sent back to the warehouse.
- Carried out regular site walks to identify issues with links, products and images and inform the relevant teams.
- Checked price changes had been actioned and reported any errors for correction.
Digital Web Manager
Sarah Layton Jewellers
Whalley, Lancashire
04.2010 - 08.2012
- Oversaw initial product database set up for the new transactional website, including categorisation, image uploading and basic merchandising.
- Monitoring daily/weekly sales and reporting on the best sellers, brands and categories.
- Picking and packing orders and despatching them.
- Setting up new products from scratch, which included sourcing imagery or taking photographs, SEO keywords and adding descriptions.
Event Settler
Bet365
Stoke, Staffordshire
04.2010 - 07.2011
- Setting up sports events for the online platform, ready to be offered to customers to bet on.
- Quickly settling sports events once finished in order to trigger payouts and clear the event down off the system.
- Working meticulously through live trading errors to recreate accurate odds to correct opportunistic betting
Education
Bachelor of Science - Motorsport Technology
Huddersfield University
Huddersfield, Kirklees 09.2004 - 05.2008
A-Levels - Accounting, Business Studies & Law
Witney College
Witney 09.1998 - 05.2000
GCSEs -
Fitzharry's School
Abingdon, Oxfordshire 08.1992 - 05.1998
Skills
- Strong degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- Excellent time management and organisation skills
- Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable working individually and as part of a team to hit key deadlines
- Ability to adapt and embrace change
- Ability to lead and manage the Digital Merchandising team
Timeline
Digital Outdoors Trading Manager
JD Outdoors
03.2020 - Current
Senior Digital Merchandiser
JD Outdoors
06.2017 - 03.2020
Digital Merchandiser
JD Outdoors
08.2013 - 05.2017
Assistant Digital Merchandiser
JD Sports
08.2012 - 07.2013
Digital Web Manager
Sarah Layton Jewellers
04.2010 - 08.2012
Event Settler
Bet365
04.2010 - 07.2011
Bachelor of Science - Motorsport Technology
Huddersfield University
09.2004 - 05.2008
A-Levels - Accounting, Business Studies & Law
Witney College
09.1998 - 05.2000
GCSEs -
Fitzharry's School
08.1992 - 05.1998