8 Temporary, Retail jobs in Edinburgh

We have an exciting opportunity for a Digital Trading Manager to join our B&M team based in our Central Support Office in Lasswade on a 12 month fixed term basis. You will be managing the online platform to ensure dobbies.com produces strong sales, through developing a digital strategy specific to your category(s), consisting of product and brand on-boarding edit creation and on-site merchandising. As a manager and leader within Dobbies, showing strong team management skills, driving performance through empowering your direct reports and your teams to make the right decisions. Responsibilites

• Overseeing the overall sell through of the business, ensuring all products are delivering strong sales. Being the creative and strategic thinker to deliver a clear product focus through edit creation and on-site mechanising.
• Supporting with the overall digital strategy by owning and delivering on the strategy specific to your category(s)
• Use analytics to fully understand our customer and their behaviours to develop the best possible customer journey and online experience.
• Working collaboratively with other areas of the business to ensure dobbies.com gives the best possible representation of our stores and product offering.
• Acting as a digital champion, ensuring trends are recognised and represented.
• Set up and build of new products online ensuring all features, category, pricing, imagery, and attributes are accurate.
• Work together with Buying & Operations completing the product attribute sheet accurately.
• Upload and maintain the products on product detail page.
• Own daily and launch walkthrough/website check sheets, coordinate, and fix all issues/requests.
• Respond quickly to issues raised by the Customer Service team ensuring fixes are actioned in timely manner.
• Work on visual merchandise allocated categories ensuring direction and guidelines set up by Digital Visual Merchandising are met.
• Write product descriptions as and when required.
• Support with the launch of seasonal Sales and other promotions.
• Assist with user acceptance testing on all new functionality and report all issues, bugs and feature enhancements as required.
• Liaise with and build a close working relationship with the key stakeholders across Merchandising, Creative, Buying, Customer Service and Operations.
• Work closely with the E-commerce team on all admin-related tasks.
• Feed into weekly / monthly reporting, present trading analysis on weekly meetings
• Manage team budget, performance and other aspects of management
• Train and mentor junior team members
• Provide oversight to team, managing day-to-day issues and concerns, coaching and developing all team members, driving performance and deliver of the company goals through inhouse tools and ensuring all managed within company policy, procedures and processes.
• Takes the lead in creating a great place to work for everyone; creates a positive and engaged team through recognition, fun and inspiring others to achieve
• An effective coach with the ability to provide direct, honest and constructive feedback, See performance growth in your assigned category, with sales and online metrics improving
  
  You have built a strong relationship with buyers, merchandisers and marketing stakeholders relevant to your category
• Improved efficiencies within your category and for the Online team
• You have a good understanding of people management requirements, approachable and understanding and able to work with team members to find solutions to day-to-day issues.
• You have knowledge of business goals and how team will contribute to company success
• You resolve conflict and handle negative behaviour effectively
• You demonstrate our values at all times - we're one team, getting better everyday. We bring a smile. We live and breathe gardens. We make it work for our customers.
  
  At Dobbies, we're proud to have a history dating back to 1865. We were founded by James Dobbie and are the only garden centre retailer to have stores in every nation across the UK.
Our passion and joy for gardens and plants is what makes us special. In our stores, we showcase this through own brand and branded products, concession partners and services. We champion garden living all-year-round. Many of our stores feature a restaurant or coffee shop, where customers can enjoy refreshments or meals in a relaxed and welcoming environment. We offer a calendar of events and experiences that bring people and communities together, and we have a national charity partner that both our colleagues and customers raise money for, We're committed to being a great place to work. We're one team and we encourage our colleagues to be the best version of themselves, every day; to share their wins and celebrate success. Together, we make it work for our customers.


• Discount - treat yourself with generous uncapped discount across our stores with 50% off in our Restaurants, 25% off in the Garden Centre and 10% off in our food halls
• Hybrid working - a combination of office and home working to help balance your work life balance
• Pension - save for the future with our company contributed enhanced Group Pension Plan
• Season ticket loans - spread the cost of travel with an interest free loan
• Access to Wagestream - support your financial wellbeing, with ability to access earnings ahead of pay day, save for the future and financial advice
• Access to Retail Trust - seek confidential support, access to a Virtual GP, free counselling service and discounted retail rewards with our employee wellbeing platform
• Access to Dobbies Academy - continue your development with our eLearning platform and development programmes
• Study assistance - invest in your professional development with funded courses and qualifications
• The little things to keep you going through the day - free tea, coffee, and milk
• Collaborative office space - with access to our wellbeing room, learning resources and even a book swap
• Invites to our annual company conference, summer and Christmas social events