Role Description
OnCommerce is looking for a senior, highly analytical and genuinely hands-on performance marketing specialist to drive a six-month marketing transformation. This is not a Head of Marketing or strategic leadership role; we need an experienced operator who can:
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Get into the data, identify opportunities and wastage.
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Turn insight into action quickly.
The core problem to solve includes:
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Identifying where marketing spend is being wasted.
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Finding profitable growth opportunities.
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Analyzing product, audience, segment, and cohort performance.
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Determining which channels should be scaled, reduced, or changed.
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Understanding how acquisition translates into contribution and profitability.
Immediate areas of focus include:
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Meta: Facebook & Instagram
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Ownership of analytical and optimization tasks.
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Product and audience segmentation.
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CPCs and conversion analysis.
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Cohort performance measurement.
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Testing and identifying winning/losing segments.
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Reallocating spend towards effective strategies.
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Google Shopping
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Deep analysis of product-level profitability.
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Identifying sources of wasted spend.
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Audience/customer segmentation.
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Cohort analysis and CPC efficiency.
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Addressing Merchant Centre and feed issues.
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Identifying missing/suppressed products.
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Affiliates
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Analyzing existing performance and identifying new opportunities.
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Working with CJ, impact.com, and Rakuten.
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Improving feed quality and frequency.
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Focusing on conversion and profitability.
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Expanding into UK and European markets.
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Segmentation, cohorts & propensity
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Analyzing large product sets and customer data.
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Determining marketing strategies based on analysis.
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Collaborating with the Data Science team on propensity solutions.
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Reporting, monitoring & alerting
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Building visibility around marketing performance.
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Identifying unexpected traffic/channel changes.
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Monitoring rapidly increasing costs and poor-performing activities.
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Detecting issues affecting channel performance.
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Retail media & new growth channels
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Assessing retail media connections to broader acquisition activities.
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Exploring emerging channels like ChatGPT advertising.
Qualifications
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Senior-level, hands-on performance/growth marketing experience.
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Strong e-commerce background.
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Experience working with large product catalogues / high SKU volumes.
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Advanced, practical use of AI tools for analysis and optimization.
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Deep Google Shopping experience.
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Strong Meta / Facebook / Instagram paid acquisition experience.
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Strong analytical and data-led approach.
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Experience with customer/product segmentation and cohort analysis.
Requirements
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Able to identify which products, audiences, and channels should be scaled, reduced, or stopped.
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Strong commercial mindset focused on profitable growth.
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Comfortable getting into detail and being an individual contributor.
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Able to work independently and make quick decisions.
Benefits
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This is a six-month contract role, with an ASAP start.
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Remote work within the UK.
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Occasional in-person meetings in Manchester or Bournemouth are a bonus but not essential.
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Applicants must be based in the UK and have the full right to work in the UK.