eCommerce Director - Women's, Lifestyle, and Homes

As the eCommerce Director, you will lead the eCommerce team in the Women’s, Lifestyle & Homes vertical to build eCommerce affiliate revenues. You will form a crucial part of the Future's eCommerce leadership team and report to the VP of eCommerce.

What you'll be doing...

This role will develop the eCommerce trading, analysis and strategic support function on our Women’s Lifestyle and Homes online properties.

• Lead the Trading & merchandising function to understand and guide the performance of our content across core WL&H categories, channels & brands. Set, improve and drive the use of best practices for commerce content, working with our editorial teams.
• Working with eCommerce leadership, trading analysts and content teams to exceed budget targets  and build sustainable, diversified affiliate revenues.
• Develop our Affiliate partnerships, building brand retailer and network relationships whilst supporting commercial peers in securing affiliate-led advertising revenues.
• Partner with editorial leadership and online edit teams to create, implement and action successful commerce focussed strategies with an audience-first bias.
• Drive platform initiatives alongside product leads to deliver the best online shopping experiences for users.
• Influence at executive leadership team level, as part of the Senior Leadership Team,  across the matrix organization to grow eCommerce and the wider organization

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve...

• Experience transforming complex eCommerce funnel data, including website traffic and purchase trends, into compelling narratives that not only enhance our content strategy but also provide valuable, data-driven insights for our advertising partners, promoting engagement and revenue growth.
• Experience at a senior level within the Fashion and/or Homes verticals, preferably within a publishing environment. 
• Experience leading a content monetization strategy for online fashion, beauty or homes categories. 
• Strong commercial mindset - able to spot opportunities to quickly deliver value and execute against these. Experienced in the affiliate space and with experience in value creation
• Operationally deliver change across departments, with project management skills and the ability to be strategic and detail focussed in tandem  
• Analytically minded with a data driven mindset - striking the right balance between data-led decisions and taking calculated risks in a world of permanently imperfect information
• Ability to influence at all levels and across departments, with experience of matric working 
• A pacey and engaging leader, able to inspire their team and the wider organisation.
• Established relationships with marketing leads at leading Fashion, Beauty and homeware brands desirable but not essential. 

What's in it for you…

We have a number of awesome perks available to our staff. We offer huge opportunities to learn and develop, whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues. We have a fantastic culture where we really do care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Varied roles mean you’re not pigeonholed in to one finite area but get the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every member of staff joins our profit pool bonus scheme.

Internal job family level P3

The expected range for this role is $140,000 - $170,000

This is a Hybrid role from our New York office, working three days from the office, two from home

Who are we…

We’re Future. We’re 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We’ve got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it.

Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future

We have a voice and we’re going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We’re an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness.

Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made so we can give you the best experience!

Find out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.

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