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ASOS

Lead Trading Manager

Location:  London, United Kingdom
Location flexibility:  3 office days / week – may vary across teams (tech teams 3 days at home)
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Job Description

Company Description

We're ASOS, the online retailer for fashion lovers all around the world.

We exist to give our customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgement, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

Everyone needs some help showing up as their best self. We're Disability Confident Committed - let our Talent team know if you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Job Description

Own and drive profitable trading performance across an assigned market or portfolio of markets.

This is not a reporting role. You will use data, commercial judgement and AI-enabled tools to identify opportunities, make clear recommendations and mobilise cross-functional teams around the actions that matter most.

The Details

  • Own market performance across revenue, traffic, conversion, margin, discount investment, customer behaviour and proposition KPIs.

  • Set the market trading strategy, priorities and action plan based on customer insight, local dynamics and commercial opportunity.

  • Identify performance risks and growth opportunities early, taking decisive action without waiting for instruction.

  • Lead forecasting, scenario planning and performance reviews, clearly articulating assumptions, risks and upside.

  • Make informed trade-offs across growth, margin, promotion, customer experience and long-term market health.

  • Act as the market expert across customer behaviour, competition, product, pricing, payments, delivery, returns and local trading rhythms.

  • Shape and influence cross-functional roadmaps across Trading, Pricing, Marketing, Product, Planning, Finance and Operations.

  • Lead market-specific tests and initiatives, ensuring clear hypotheses, measures and commercial follow-through.

  • Use AI, automation and self-service analytics to improve decision speed, remove manual work and raise trading effectiveness.

  • Hold teams to account for delivery, ensuring actions have clear owners, deadlines and measurable outcomes.

  • Represent the market in senior commercial forums, bringing clear recommendations rather than updates alone.

We believe being together in person helps us move faster, connect more deeply, and achieve more as a team. That’s why our approach to working together includes spending at least 3 days a week in the office. It’s a rhythm that speeds up decision-making, helps ASOSers learn from each other more quickly, and builds the kind of culture where people can grow, create, and succeed.

Qualifications

About You

  • Significant experience in e-commerce, retail trading, commercial strategy or country management.

  • Proven ownership of complex commercial performance across multiple levers.

  • Strong market judgement and the confidence to make decisions with incomplete information.

  • Highly autonomous, with a strong bias for action and clear personal accountability.

  • Able to distinguish between reversible decisions and those requiring senior alignment.

  • Strong understanding of e-commerce economics, customer behaviour and local market dynamics.

  • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams without formal authority.

  • Comfortable challenging established thinking and making difficult commercial trade-offs.

  • Strong analytical capability, with experience using BI, SQL, AI or automation tools to accelerate decision-making.

  • Clear, concise communicator who can turn complexity into direction and action.

Additional Information

BeneFITS’

  • Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
  • Employee sample sales
  • 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment
  • Discretionary bonus scheme
  • Private medical care scheme
  • Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
  • Opportunity for personalised learning and in-the-moment experiences that enable you to thrive and excel in your role.

Why take our word for it? Search #InsideASOS on our socials to see what life at ASOS is like.

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Working at ASOS

3 office days / week – may vary across teams (tech teams 3 days at home)

A little flex time

Company benefits

25 days annual leave + bank holidays
401K
Accrued annual leave – Max 5 days to carry over
Adoption leave – 26 weeks enhanced pay
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Bike parking
Birthday off
Buy or sell annual leave
Cinema discounts
Coffee discounts
Company freebies
Compassionate leave
Critical Illness Insurance
Dental coverage
Early finish Fridays
Emergency leave
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks enhanced pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 8 weeks enhanced pay
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Enhanced sick days
Enhanced sick pay
Eye Care Support
Faith rooms
Family health insurance
Fertility benefits
Financial coaching
Further education support
Gym membership
Hackathons
Health insurance
Hertility subscription
In house training
On-site catering
On-site massages
On-site workout classes
On-site yoga classes
Learning platform
Life assurance
Mental health first aiders
Mental health platform access – Access to EAP (Unum)
Mentoring
Neonatal leave – 16 weeks leave
On-site gym
On-site wellness room
Open to compressed hours
Open to part time work for some roles
Open to part-time employees
Personal development days
Pregnancy loss leave – 10 days paid leave
Private GP service
Professional subscriptions
Referral bonus
Religious celebration leave
Restaurant discounts
Sabbaticals
Salary sacrifice
Shared parental leave – 26 weeks enhanced pay
Skilled worker visas
Study support
Teambuilding days
Time off in-lieu
Travel loan
Volunteer days
Summer hours
Secure on-site parking
Modern office
Private booths
Collaboration spaces
On-site barista
On-site shower
On-site personal trainer
Carer’s leave
Fertility treatment leave
Women’s health leave
Menopause support

Awards & Accreditations

2nd – Most loved - Medium companies

2nd – Most loved - Medium companies

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Company employees:

3,000

Gender diversity (m:f):

35:65

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