Trade Marketing Executive - 12 month fixed-term contract

Internal use only: Grade G

About us  

We’re the team behind digital retailer Very.

Our purpose, helping families get more out of life, powers everything we do.  

And we want our people to get more out of life too! If you’re high-performing, ambitious and make the most of every opportunity, we want to hear from you. In return, you’ll enjoy heaps of flexibility, great perks and benefits, and the freedom to be yourself, keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go.  

If you love making a difference, you’ll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers. ✨ 

About the team  

We work closely with teams across the business to identify opportunities, optimise performance all starting with customer. It's an exciting time to join as we evolve this new role & give the focus to In-flight weekly trading and performance & build new processes, capabilities and shape how Retail plans, measures and improves performance. 

About the role 

This is a fast-paced, reactive role with a strong focus on understanding business performance, identifying emerging opportunities and ensuring activity responds quickly to changing customer, market and commercial priorities. 

The role has a primary focus on in-flight trading and the upcoming four-week window. Working closely with Category, Commercial, Onsite Merchandising, Creative and wider Marketing teams, the role will ensure activity is relevant, commercially focused and aligned to current business priorities. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Maintain a strong awareness of business and category performance, using trading insights and performance data to understand where new activity, onsite updates or optimisation is required. 

• Proactively identify opportunities and work closely with category & commercial to raise briefs for new or changing activity that can support performance, both in-flight and across the next four weeks. 

• Own and manage the areas of the site that need to be most responsive to trade, customer behaviour and market changes, including the Homepage and Offers Zone. 

• Ensure onsite activity remains relevant and commercially effective, reacting at pace where performance, stock, promotional priorities or market conditions change. 

• Own the lower-funnel marketing feed-in for promotional activity, ensuring messaging, products and onsite execution are aligned to current performance and wider business priorities. 

• Jira briefs and feed into wider teams (including Creative, Onsite Merchandising and other relevant teams) with accuracy, providing clear rationale, requirements and timings to enable activity to move at pace and launch on time. 

• Own the in-flight optimisation of live activity, using performance insights to recommend changes to messaging, prominence or customer journeys where appropriate. 

• Conduct regular competitor and market reviews, identifying relevant changes in proposition, promotional messaging, customer trends and onsite execution that could inform our response. 

• Be responsible for ensuring all key trading and activity documentation remains live and accurate, capturing changes to activity as they happen. 

• Ensure changes are clearly communicated across relevant stakeholders so teams are working from a single, accurate view of the trading plan. 

• Complete staging and go-live site checks for relevant activity, ensuring execution reflects the agreed brief and supports the intended customer journey. 

• Track the impact of changes and interventions, feeding performance and learnings back into future in-flight decisions. 

About you 

• Commercially curious, with a strong interest in understanding what is driving performance and what action can be taken as a result. 

• A proactive self-starter who is comfortable identifying opportunities and raising briefs rather than waiting for activity to be assigned. 

• Able to operate effectively in a fast-paced, reactive trading environment, balancing planned priorities with emerging business needs. 

• Strong attention to detail, particularly when managing multiple live changes and maintaining accurate documentation. 

• Confident working cross-functionally and able to translate trading priorities into clear marketing and onsite actions. 

• Comfortable using data and insight to make recommendations and challenge existing plans. 

• Strong communication and coordination skills, with the ability to keep multiple stakeholders aligned as priorities evolve.  

• Experience with tools such as ContentSquare, CMI, GA4 and Excel would be beneficial. 

Some of our benefits  

• Flexible, hybrid working model  

• Inclusive culture and environment, check out our Glassdoor reviews  

• £250 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs  

• 27 days holiday + bank holidays  

• LinkedIn Learning access  

• Bonus potential (performance and business-related)  

• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk  

• Matched pension up to 6%  

• More benefits can be found on our career site  

How to apply 

Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly, and if successful in securing this role, you will be required to undertake a credit, CIFAS, Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need to disclose in relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken, including any unspent criminal convictions. 

What happens next?  

Our talent acquisition team will be in touch if you’re successful so keep an eye on your emails! We’ll arrange a short call to learn more about you, as well as answer any questions you have. If it feels like we’re a good match, we’ll share your CV with the hiring manager to review. Our interview process is tailored to each role and can be in-person or held remotely.   

You can expect a one stage interview process for this position:   

1st stage - A one hour face-to-face interview with the hiring team to discuss your skills and relevant experience + competency questions. This is also a great opportunity to find out more about the role and to ask any questions you may have.   

As an inclusive employer please do let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.   

If you'd like to know more about our interviews, you can find out here.  

Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities 

We’re building a culture of everyday inclusion, and welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We don’t discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. 

We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply, interview, or perform a role, let us know via talentacquisition@theverygroup.com. We’ll be happy to support you. 

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer and have nine brilliant colleague networks - including DAWN (Disability Awareness at Very) and Think (Neurodiversity at Very) - that are helping us make Very an even more inclusive place to work.