About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Marketplace Trading Manager to own the end-to-end commercial performance of a portfolio of Home, Lifestyle & Personal Care brands across European marketplaces, with a focus on BOL.com, OTTO & Kaufland. This role combines strategic channel ownership with hands-on execution, ensuring strong revenue growth, profitability, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Act as the single point of accountability for brand performance on BOL.com, owning P&L outcomes and driving cross-functional execution to deliver results
- Manage day-to-day execution across listings, pricing, promotions, and availability
- Monitor and optimise key commercial metrics, including revenue, CVR, traffic, keyword & category rank, review & ratings, and contribution margin
- Analyse SKU and marketplace-level data (sales, CVR, traffic, keyword rankings, costs) to diagnose performance trends and translate insights into actions
- Execute key trading moments, including product launches, promotions, and peak events (e.g. Prime Day, Black Friday)
- Deliver reporting on performance, risks, and opportunities to senior stakeholders
- Define and execute EU marketplace growth strategies tailored to each brand and market, delivered in line with each brand’s global, omnichannel strategy
- Prioritise key growth levers to maximise performance (pricing, content, SEO, PPC, promotions, distribution)
- Own forecasting, budgeting, and performance tracking for your brands
- Ensure listings are optimised and compliant, maintaining high operational standards across catalogue, pricing, and account health
- Proactively resolve issues such as listing suppressions, compliance risks, or negative customer trends
- Identify performance improvement opportunities through testing and experimentation
- Build and document best practices and playbooks to drive repeatable success
- Stay up to date with platform developments, tools, and category trends
- Manage Performance Marketing (PPC) Aligning on strategy, budgets, and priorities to drive efficient growth, maximise total search visibility and protect margins
- Partner closely with internal teams to deliver best-in-class execution: Brand & Creative, Product Development, Supply Chain, Finance
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in eCommerce: hands-on ownership of brands on European marketplaces, ideally BOL.com, OTTO, Kaufland or Amazon
- Fluent in English and German
- Dutch would be a bonus
- Strong commercial acumen: understands how trading decisions impact revenue, profitability, and cash flow
- Highly analytical: able to interpret complex datasets and turn insights into action
- Ownership mindset: take full responsibility for brand performance and outcomes
- Execution-focused: able to move quickly from insight to action across multiple priorities
- Cross-functional collaborator: work effectively with multiple teams to deliver results
- Structured & organised: able to manage multiple brands, marketplaces, and projects simultaneously
- Clear communicator: able to present complex ideas simply to a range of stakeholders
- Adaptable & proactive: thrives in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment
Skills
- Marketplace Trading
- Commercial Performance
- P&L Management
- Listing Optimisation
- Pricing Strategy
- Promotion Management
- Availability Management
- Commercial Metrics Analysis
- CVR Optimisation
- Traffic Analysis
- Keyword Ranking
- Category Ranking
- Review Management
- Rating Management
- Contribution Margin Analysis
- SKU-Level Data Analysis
- Marketplace-Level Data Analysis
- Sales Data Analysis
- Cost Analysis
- Performance Trend Diagnosis
- Insight Translation
- Trading Moment Execution
- Product Launch Management
- Peak Event Management
- Reporting
- Risk Assessment
- Opportunity Identification
- EU Marketplace Growth Strategy
- Omnichannel Strategy
- Growth Lever Prioritisation
- SEO
- PPC Management
- Distribution Strategy
- Forecasting
- Budgeting
- Performance Tracking
- Catalogue Management
- Account Health Management
- Issue Resolution
- Testing and Experimentation
- Best Practice Documentation
- Playbook Development
- Platform Development Awareness
- Tool Awareness
- Category Trend Awareness
- Performance Marketing
- Brand Management
- Creative Optimisation
- Brand Positioning
- Product Development Input
- Customer Insight Translation
- Supply Chain Coordination
- Inventory Management
- Finance Alignment
- Cost Management
- eCommerce
- English Fluency
- German Fluency
- Dutch Fluency (Bonus)
Location
- Holborn, London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 4+ years of experience in eCommerce
Benefits
- 30 days holiday + 8 UK bank holidays
- Pension contribution Scheme – 5% from you, 3% from us
- Private Medical Insurance – Includes travel, vision & dental (Vitality)
- Work from Abroad – One month per year, anywhere in the world
- Bonus Scheme – Discretionary bonus, based on individual and company performance
- Mental Health Support – Free, confidential therapy via Spill
- Flexi-Fridays – Finish early one Friday per month
- Olstar Events – Quarterly meetups, celebrations & socials
- Vibrant Office – Runway East, Bloomsbury
About the Company
- Avenir Collective - Building the future of beauty, personal care and lifestyle brands.
- We're building a new kind of consumer brand platform focused on trusted products, long-term value and meaningful growth.
- If you're excited by building brands, solving problems and working alongside collaborative, driven people, we'd love to hear from you
Equal Opportunity
- Avenir Collective is proud to be a disability-committed employer registered in the UK. If you identify as having a disability and meet all of the criteria set out in the job description, we would like to support you through the interview stage.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where all employees and applicants can flourish.
