Digital Event Trading Lead

.About the team

At Sainsbury's, digital is at the centre of how we serve customers whenever, wherever and however they choose to shop. Within Digital Commerce for General Merchandise, we work as one connected team across our brands and channels to create brilliant online experiences that deliver for customers and the business. This role sits in a fast-paced area at the heart of major customer moments, where digital events and campaigns play a key role in driving engagement, sales and profit across Argos and Habitat digital channels.

 

As Digital Event Trading Lead, you'll own the planning and execution of key customer events and campaign activity across the year. Working closely with Trade Planning, Commercial, Marketing and wider Ecommerce teams, you'll make sure events are well planned, clearly briefed and effectively activated across relevant digital touchpoints, including landing pages, homepage features and other onsite content. You'll help bring together the right products, promotions and messaging to maximise the customer experience and trading impact during key seasonal and campaign moments.

This is a highly collaborative and reactive role in a fast-moving environment. You'll monitor performance, respond to customer and commercial signals, and adapt plans where needed to improve outcomes. You'll also lead post-event reviews, share performance insights with stakeholders, keep a close eye on competitor execution, and drive testing and optimisation so we continuously improve how we deliver digital events.

 

You'll bring experience from a digital, ecommerce or online trading environment, ideally within a large-scale retail business, and be confident managing plans that involve multiple teams, deadlines and dependencies. You know how to turn a trading or campaign brief into a clear delivery plan, and you're comfortable working across functions to bring people with you and keep momentum high.

You'll also be highly organised, commercially aware and confident using performance data to inform decisions. You can prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment, adapt when circumstances change, and balance attention to detail with a strong understanding of the bigger picture. Just as importantly, you'll enjoy working collaboratively, challenging constructively and looking for ways to improve how we do things.

 

Experience working in a digital, ecommerce or online trading role where you have planned, coordinated or delivered campaigns, events or customer activity

Evidence of working cross-functionally with teams such as commercial, marketing, operations, analytics, design or ecommerce to deliver activity to deadline 

Ability to use trading, customer or digital performance data to evaluate results, identify issues or opportunities, and make informed changes to plans

Experience managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, including responding to changing circumstances while maintaining delivery quality

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to brief clearly, build alignment and keep others informed on progress and performance

Experience using digital analytics tools (including Adobe Analytics) to interpret performance data and inform decision-making

 

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At Argos, we’re a digital-led UK retailer that keeps pushing boundaries to meet every generation with what they want, how and when they want it. As a market leader in general merchandise, serving millions of customers through our website, app, same-day delivery and Click & Collect services, we offer real opportunities to learn, grow and shape your career. With roles spanning Commercial, Buying, Merchandising, Design and Supply Chain, through to Digital, Operations, Customer Experience, Marketing, and People and Transformation , you will work with brilliant colleagues and directly shape how we serve our customers every day. From enabling inspiring choice across our owned brands, including Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, alongside the world’s biggest brands like Apple, Lego, Xbox and Samsung, to making shopping effortlessly convenient, championing trusted value and accelerating our strategy - Argos is an exciting place to build your future. We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).