Product Trader - Lifestyle (Highly Competitive + Bonus)

Role: eCommerce Category Trader - Lifestyle

Company: Buy It Direct

Salary: Competitive + Bonus

Location: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

Position: Full-time - permanent - 4 days office-based / 1 day home working

At Buy It Direct, we don't just sell products; we shape the online shopping experience. We're looking for a commercially minded eCommerce Category Trader to join our Lifestyle team and take full ownership of a product category. This is a hands on role where you'll optimise the customer journey, drive conversion, and maximise basket value while collaborating across multiple teams to grow your category.

About You

• Commercially driven, with experience in a product-focused eCommerce role, ideally within retail.
• Confident using GA4 and other analytical tools to interpret data and make commercial decisions.
• Strong product knowledge, able to use insight and experience to improve the customer journey and highlight product benefits.
• A self-starter with energy, ambition, and the ability to work at pace in a fast-moving environment.
• Collaborative and able to influence stakeholders across multiple teams.
• Numerate, analytical, and highly detail-oriented.

The Role

• Own and actively trade your category end-to-end, driving conversion, basket value, and profitable growth.
• Collaborate with Buying, CRM, Merchandising, Traffic, and Creative teams to deliver category plans.
• Manage marketing critical paths to ensure key deadlines are met.
• Identify opportunities for customer intent based promotion, personalisation, product recommendations, attach items and other opportunities based on your experience and knowledge of the customer category.
• Use insight, experience, and product knowledge to improve the customer journey, reduce friction points, and enhance UX.
• Manage category hierarchies, attribution, and navigation to maximise discoverability and conversion.
• Support the Irish market through collaboration with PPC and SEO stakeholders.
• Work with Merchandising and Buying to create and deliver promotional plans.Track performance, identify category gaps, and proactively highlight new initiatives and functionality opportunities.

What You'll Need

• A commercial mindset and the drive to take full ownership of your category.
• Confidence to build relationships and influence teams across the business.
• A collaborative, open approach, you love working with others to make things happen.
• The energy to thrive in a fast paced, ever changing eCommerce environment.
• A passion for products and creating brilliant online shopping experiences.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, with a sharp eye for the details that matter.

If you're ready to take ownership, shape the customer journey, and make a real commercial impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now

Company profile

At Buy It Direct, we dare to be different. We've built this business from the ground up to become one of the UK's largest and fastest growing online retailers. We are proud of the products and services we provide across our six well recognised, award winning online brands including Laptops Direct, Appliances Direct, Better Bathrooms and Furniture123. We listen, learn and challenge the status quo, paying attention to the details that matter and want to delight our customers by putting them at the heart of what we do, to really understand what matters to them.

Hours: 39.5

Benefits

• Healthcare cash plan
• Free parking
• Birthday off after a year
• Holiday purchase scheme to get that work life balance
• Staff discount scheme
• Autonomy to make a difference