Job Introduction
An exciting opportunity to lead one of the fastest growing & most dynamic areas of our business. Over recent years, our e-commerce team has been through significant acceleration & is now sitting as a central part of digital transformation. The e-commerce team has the unique opportunity to work across our brand portfolio, collaborating with the biggest markets to grow channel visibility, revenue & share.
Main Responsibility
Develop and deliver against a consumer-centric e-commerce strategy. Lead the global e-commerce team to work in collaboration with priority markets to drive our share & visibility through all relevant online channels & priority retailers. Build e-commerce capability and understanding across the business ensuring all functions are on the journey. Ensure long-term sustainable value growth with minimum disruption to other channels, balancing execution across commercial delivery & building band visibility. Ensure e-commerce integration into our digital transformation agenda.
Our Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will have a strong commercial background within e-commerce coupled with a desire to use the channel to build brands & drive connected consumer journeys. You will be a self-starter who is comfortable driving change and providing direction to a skilled & diverse team, motivating them to execute against priority growth levers. You will have the experience to unlock value across all e-commerce sub-channels with a particular focus on the commercial leadership of AMAZON & using DTC data to optimise our approach in broader channels. You will be a strategic thinker who can balance short and long-term priorities.
What we can offer you
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive. If you have any questions or need some support with your application we’d love to hear from you. So please get in touch with our HR team at recruitment.enquiries@wgrant.com.
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