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# Head of Ecommerce

- **Company:** Vpz View All Jobs
- **Location:** Newbridge, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £60,000.0 - £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Shopify, Web Performance Optimization
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/job/gb92ddbb7e077590e8e261c417f0f0c286/eaa

## About the Role

5+ years' experience in eCommerce or digital trading roles
Proven experience building or turning around underperforming eCommerce channels
Strong commercial mindset, you think in revenue, margin, and contribution, not vanity metrics
Hands on experience improving conversion, merchandising, SEO, and repeat purchase
Comfortable working from imperfect systems and improving them over time
Strong analytical capability with experience using analytics, SEO, and CRM platforms
Experience with Shopify (or similar platforms) preferred
Clear understanding of GDPR, PCI, and online trading compliance
Direct, pragmatic, and delivery focused, you fix problems rather than explain them
Please ensure you apply with an up-to-date CV.
Applicants must be 18 years old or above, any subsequent job offer is subject to pre-employment screening and right to work checks.

## Description

We are hiring a Head of eCommerce (Growth & Trading) to take full ownership of our online trading performance and rebuild eCommerce into a meaningful, commercially disciplined sales channel.
This is a hands on growth role, not a cosmetic strategy position.
Today, eCommerce accounts for a small percentage of total sales, with a heavy reliance on branded and own label search traffic. The opportunity and expectation is to materially grow online contribution by improving fundamentals: conversion, merchandising, content, SEO quality, basket value, and repeat purchase.
You will be accountable for turning eCommerce from a weak channel into a scalable one., Own day to day trading performance of all eCommerce sales channels, delivering against sales, conversion, and revenue targets
Define and execute a practical commercial growth plan to increase eCommerce contribution from a low base
Reduce reliance on branded traffic by growing non branded SEO performance and improving discoverability
Relentlessly optimise the end to end customer journey to improve conversion, basket value, and repeat purchase
Improve online merchandising, product taxonomy, promotions, bundles, and category performance
Use data, insight, and structured testing to drive measurable improvements
Own website performance, platform optimisation (Shopify), payments, fraud processes, and trading reliability
Work closely with retail, marketing, operations, finance, and customer service teams to ensure alignment
Manage and challenge third-party agencies to ensure value and results
Deliver clear, honest trading reports and insight to senior stakeholders
Build, lead, and develop the eCommerce team as the channel scales


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