Marketplace Trading & Content Manager

Greater London, Kensington and Chelsea, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the trading performance across marketplace partners by turning insights into action that lifts visibility, conversion, and profitability, while coordinating with Merchandising, Marketing, and Digital Partnerships to align on ranges, listings, and campaigns.

  • Trading & performance: optimize visibility, conversion, and profitability across Zalando and other marketplaces.
  • Listings quality: own product listings, attributes, imagery, taxonomy, and catalog hygiene across partners.
  • Cross-functional execution: coordinate with Merchandising, Operations, Buying, and Marketing to align on ranges, campaigns, and marketplace messaging.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Monitoring performance of digital partners against sales and profit plans, identifying opportunities across visibility, conversion and profitability, and taking action to deliver against them
  • Driving sales while maintaining awareness of margin and operating costs, balancing top-line performance with overall contribution
  • Using partner tools, dashboards and insights to understand performance drivers and where to focus effort
  • Planning and executing key trading moments, ensuring products are set up correctly to support performance during campaigns and seasonal activity
  • Building strong relationships with digital partners and staying close to how each platform operates in practice
  • Prioritising activity based on impact, focusing on areas that will drive the most meaningful performance improvement
  • Working closely with in‑team Merchandising and Operations to ensure execution is aligned and issues are resolved quickly
  • Partnering with the Buying and Merchandising teams to align on ranges and trading priorities
  • Supporting the Merchandiser with planning and forecasting – feeding in channel level insight - ensuring plans reflect differences in how each channel operates and their respective strengths
  • Collaborating with Marketing teams to ensure marketplace activity reflects the broader brand message while still delivering on commercial objectives

Requirements

  • 3+ experience in marketplace trading with responsibility for delivering performance - specifically with hands-on experience with Zalando Partner Program.
  • Strong understanding of how marketplace performance is driven in practice, including what impacts visibility, conversion and overall results
  • Familiarity with marketplace tools, platforms and ways of working.
  • Proven track record of improving performance through trading and content optimisation
  • Exposure to marketplace media (ZMS, AMS)
  • Highly analytical with the ability to turn insight into action
  • Able to manage and prioritise effectively across multiple channels, products and trading moments
  • Confident working cross‑functionally in fast‑paced environments

    Benefits

    • Blended working – spreading your time across our office and remote working
    • Sustainable office in bustling West London (near Westfield)
    • Friendly and open culture with flat structures allowing plenty of opportunity for development.
    • Company growth and opportunity; Dune is evolving all the time
    • Open-minded company, welcoming thoughts and ideas to be shared
    • Working with charitable organisations to help raise funds and give something back. Our current charity partner is Mental Health UK.
    • 60% employee discount on Dune products – what’s not to love!
    • 25 days holiday (plus the bank holidays)
    • Cycle2work
    • Company pension scheme
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    The Dune Group

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    Dune London was born in 1992, beginning as a small concession store on London’s iconic Oxford Street. The dream was simple: to create an affordable luxury footwear and accessories brand.Delivering that something special remains at the heart of our brand, and we’re thrilled you’re looking to join our team.As our name suggests, we love London - it’s our home. As the epicentre of fashion with its vibrant, diverse and creative energy, it’s a city that constantly inspires us. We’re proud to say we now have over 200 store locations worldwide.To truly get to know the brand we suggest you visit one of our beautiful stores.

    Founded in 1992
    London, England, GBR
    513 employees (53 in marketing)
    56% recommend to a friend
    72% CEO approval

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    Monthly Visitors
    914.1K
    Monthly Google Ads Budget
    $1.2K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    54.1%
    Direct
    37.7%
    Referral
    4.7%
    Social
    2%
    Paid
    1.4%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~513

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    31 (6% of company)

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