Head of Merchandising and Pricing

Are you an experienced manager with a background in merchandising or pricing? Our client has a fantastic new position within their Marketing team in Oxfordshire. This role will be responsible for managing a newly-created team of pricing and e-commerce specialists and will create and drive the pricing strategy forward within a large, global academic publisher. This is a fantastic senior opportunity to bring strong commercial awareness, stakeholder management and analytical skills to a new team.

Key duties:

• Lead optimization of existing pricing structures to drive the Marketing department KPIs
• Oversee the Ecommerce trading and merchandising functions, managing a team of 3
• Oversee the marketing activity for Amazon optimisation
• Develop and market opportunities in online reseller channels
• Create and execute new pricing tools/strategies to increase customer conversion, retention & direct revenue
• Become an expert and the point of contact with respect to pricing for the entire division

Experience / skills required:

• A proven track record of designing and delivering major strategic change
• Substantial (and demonstrable) managerial experience
• Results driven with sound commercial judgement and financial acumen
• Excellent influencing skills
• Ability to interpret, extrapolate and communicate data from multiple sources
• Previous team management experience

For further information, please apply online or email a CV and salary expectations to clairelaw@atwoodtate.co.uk

Contact:             Claire Law

Tel:                    0203 574 4423

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