Web Development Manager, Online Retail, Hertfordshire

Client: Tesco.com
Position: Web Development Manager
Location: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Salary: Circa 45k
Type: Maternity cover (6 to 9 months)

Company:
Dotcom have a vision of becoming the World’s best Multi-Channel retailer, building on its leading position as the largest and most profitable on-line Grocer globally. With over 450 employees in the UK and 200 in India our annual revenues now stand in excess of £2 billion.

Role:
Dotcom is a completely self-sufficient business with their own teams in Marketing, Commercial, Finance, IT, Business Development and Operations. But, of course, as an internet retailer, IT and online customer experience sits right at the heart of their business and they're committed to making sure they continue to hire and develop the best talent in their industry.

Working on a large scale website build, this role will best suit an individual who thrives under pressure, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker, can engage with stakeholders of various levels and most importantly, puts their customers first.

Responsibilities:
Reporting to the Senior Marketing Manager Web Development responsibilities will include;
a) Defining and prioritising business requirements and ensuring they are delivered through our user journeys, detailed wireframes, functional specifications, design and into development and launch.
b) Working as part of a large and high profile project, you will need to work across multiple IT and customer work streams to ensure a consistent approach, open communications and that the dependencies of and for your work streams are delivered. While there are no people management requirements, you will need to be able to influence others to achieve results.
c) Acting as a subject matter expert on the user experience of key aspects of new site. You will be expected to be the ‘voice of the customer’ at all times.
d) As the ‘Customer Lead’ on a number of work streams you will be require to input into project management activities such status reports, risks & issues logs, update meetings.
e) Supporting and undertaking user acceptance testing.

Knowledge/Experience:
a) 2:1 Degree
b) Online retail experience with a web development/user centred design focus is essential
c) You will be able to demonstrate exposure and experience of working on a website’s information architecture, user journeys, wireframe design, testing and design briefs.
d) You will have worked across the full lifecycle of web development projects – define, design, develop and deliver. These will have ideally been in an ecommerce/retail environment.
e) Solid technical understanding – In order to get the best out of our IT colleagues, you will need to be comfortable having technical conversations & understand the possibilities of online technologies.

You may have experience of the following: Senior Web Developer, Web Development Project Manager, ecommerce Development Manager, e-commerce Development Manager, Development Project Manager, etc

This vacancy is being advertised by EasyWebRecruitment.com, the UK’s leading Flat Fee Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by EasyWebRecruitment.com are those of an employment agency. Ref: EWR 38683

No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from persons of any age for this role.See AboveJob type: Full Time