The Company:
Printerinks is one of the fastest growing ink and Toner distributors in UK and Europe, offering the highest quality Inks to its customers at factory-direct prices. The company was established in 1983 as a retail business providing copying, printing and stationery services to the retail and corporate market.
Job Function:
You will be responsible for the accurate maintenance of product information on the ecommerce website and the maintenance of all items and product pricing data including all price/profit analysis. Your duties will include the set up and maintenance of all promotional items, implementation of agreed and authorised basic price increases as required and price lists, management and monitoring of all discounts and promotional pricing and continuous monitoring of competitors. You will also communicate effectively with the procurement team and across all other functions within the business and assist with the creation and maintenance of the in-house systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage ecommerce website product information and data flow from various vendors and sources.
- Validation of prices and product information to ensure quality data, be responsible for maintaining corporately shared data in other core systems used by the business.
- Perform root cause analysis of exceptions, take opportunities to develop data expertise, learn downstream impacts of changing data
- Pursue automation for residual manual tasks
- Review, update and help develop departmental procedures in order that the team can meet the website needs in a controlled and timely manner.
- Responsible for conducting competitor analysis and reporting on Competitor websites; review their promotional messaging and site developments, monitor the discount levels being offered during key promotional periods.
- Use Competitor monitoring tools to report on changes in market/competitor demographics, traffic sources and market share information.
- Able to use web analytics tools to produce site reporting.
- Build and maintain a detailed knowledge of short/long term factors affecting the industry and new market, to assist in the forecasting and development of sites.
- Undertake ad-hoc tasks and projects as required by the E-Commerce Senior Management team.
- Collect and collate appropriate data for use in databases and conduct related research
- Generate reports using IT / database systems and assist in their analysis monitor and maintain the quality of database systems and secure access and use,
- Managing online marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon from upload to strategically increasing sales.
Key skills:
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Numerical ability
- Business awareness
- Passion for Data and analysis, demonstrated by relevant A-Level/degree qualifications (Mathematics/Statistics/Business Studies/Economics) - desired
- Strong PC skills, extensive experience with MS Excel
- Strong Commercial focus
- High level of attention to detail
- Ability to identify new sales and revenue opportunities
- Well developed interpersonal skills, to be used when working with several different business units to identify opportunities within the group.
- Good communication skills and the ability to analyse and present large volumes of complex data to management
- Ability to influence at all levels.
- Enthusiastic team player.
- Ability to plan and manage own workload in order to achieve objectives as set.