Brand Growth Manager

London, UK

£50K/yr – £70K/yrMid Level

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the brand growth engine across UK and international NEXT channels, with eyes on assortment discipline, seasonal trading, and cross-functional alignment with Buying, Merchandising, Design, and Marketing.

  • Build and maintain partnerships with senior client leads to unlock growth and opportunities.
  • Own product ranging and trading rhythms using season insights, label data, and stock decisions to optimize revenue and availability.
  • Drive content and SEO-aligned marketing support, ensuring best in class brand assets and campaigns across channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Be accountable for growing the Brands full price sales through NEXT UK, NEXT International and SEASONS (where applicable).
  • Build partnerships across key stakeholders at NEXT - including Buying, Merchandising, Design, Marketing teams - to accelerate brand growth and maximise business opportunities.
  • Build partnerships with the Clients senior leads.
  • Product Ranging: Support budget planning, option planning, ranking.
  • Product Ranging: Support the Buyer on product assortment by using insights from previous/current seasons, also leverage brand information to drive assortment decisions.
  • Product Ranging: Identify growth opportunities through Label data analysis.
  • Trading: Continual review of sales by size and responsible for updating size guidelines.
  • Trading: Support in season trading and replenishment, access to Brands available stock file to make quick decisions.
  • Trading: Implement and review the performance of Label +, continually reviewing conversion to stock and switching off slow lines.
  • Trading: Optimise International sales opportunities through data insights.

Requirements

  • A minimum of 2 days a week in the Clients offices and 3 days at NEXT (in-office pattern)
  • Experience in trading, ranging, and brand management
  • Ability to build relationships across teams and influence decision-making
  • Proactive, commercially savvy with a data-driven mindset
  • Confident in using data insights to optimise product ranging, trading strategies, and marketing activities

Benefits

  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Profit-related bonus - based on company performance
  • Management share options
  • Company car or car allowance
  • Private medical insurance
  • Sharesave scheme - make savings from your net pay to buy NEXT shares at a discount
  • Pension - fixed contribution rates from both an employer and employee perspective, but you're also able to make additional voluntary contributions (AVCs) if you wish to save more.
  • Life assurance
  • Group income protection
  • Wagestream - helping you make the most out of your money
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At Next we never underestimate what we can do. Bring your energy, play to your strengths and never shy away from change. Push yourself and back others. Make things happen that will be bigger and better than before. Come and work for one of the UK’s biggest retailers. It is everything you could imagine, and so much more. We’re constantly innovating, constantly working on something new and constantly creating more and more exciting new products, which means no day is the same, and no day is dull. Whether you take up a role in making furniture with our lively warehouse team or join our team of superhuman developers and tech engineers, you’ll be rubbing shoulders with some of the most talented people in the country, who not only work hard but play hard too.Let's take it on.

Founded in 1982
Enderby, England, GBR
26K employees (1,588 in marketing)