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United Kingdom · Marketing · Lead (8-12 years)

E-commerce Marketing Lead

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  • Experience bandLead (8-12 years)
  • Direct reports3-8 reports
  • Reports toE-commerce Marketing Manager
  • UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as E-commerce Programme Lead · Performance Marketing Lead · Senior E-commerce Strategist

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The qualifications matched to this job

Gateway Qualifications Entry Level Certificate In Vocational Studies (Entry 3) Gateway Qualifications Limited · Entry Level · covers 1 of 10 standards
Gateway Qualifications Entry Level Extended Certificate in Vocational Studies (Entry 3) Gateway Qualifications Limited · Entry Level · covers 1 of 10 standards
OCNLR Level 4 Diploma in Digital Marketing OCN London · Level 4 · covers 4 of 10 standards
ATHE Level 4 Extended Diploma in Digital Marketing ATHE Ltd · Level 4 · covers 3 of 10 standards
OCNLR Level 4 Certificate in Digital Marketing OCN London · Level 4 · covers 2 of 10 standards
City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Digital Marketing City & Guilds Limited · Level 3 · covers 2 of 10 standards

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Digital Marketing Gateway Qualifications Entry Level Certificate In Vocational Studies (Entry 3)
Social Media Marketing OCNLR Level 4 Diploma in Digital Marketing
Content Marketing ATHE Level 4 Extended Diploma in Digital Marketing
Digital Analytics OCNLR Level 4 Certificate in Digital Marketing

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2AI and this work

Will AI change your work as an E-commerce Marketing Lead?

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The new skills this role is being asked for

  • Advanced AI-Driven Attribution & Predictive Modelling
  • Web3 & Decentralised Commerce Strategy
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3What this role really is

An e-commerce marketing lead sets the marketing strategy for key product lines or seasonal events and leads a small team to hit revenue targets. The work covers planning campaigns across channels, checking they work together, and answering for the sales they bring in.

4What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Shopify Plus / Adobe Commerce (or similar enterprise e-commerce platform) Advanced

Configuring complex promotion rules, managing app integrations, debugging front-end issues with the dev team, understanding theme logic, and using platform data for strategic insights.

Klaviyo / HubSpot (or similar advanced CRM/Marketing Automation) Advanced

Designing complex, multi-branching automation flows based on user behaviour, implementing advanced segmentation strategies (e.g., predictive analytics), and conducting rigorous A/B tests on all flow components across your programmes.

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) & Google Tag Manager (GTM) Expert

Building custom explorations and funnels, debugging tracking implementation with GTM, creating custom audiences for remarketing, explaining complex data discrepancies, and defining the measurement framework for your programmes.

Google Ads & Meta Ads (including Shopping, PMax, Advantage+) Advanced

Architecting full-funnel campaign structures, implementing advanced bidding strategies (tROAS, tCPA), managing complex product feeds, building and testing custom audiences and Lookalike Audiences (LALs) at scale.

Ahrefs / SEMrush (or similar SEO/Content Marketing Suite) Advanced

Conducting comprehensive technical SEO audits (crawl errors, site speed), developing backlink strategies, identifying significant content gaps vs. competitors, and understanding the impact of schema markup for products on organic visibility.

Looker / Tableau (or similar Business Intelligence tool) Advanced

Connecting various data sources (marketing, sales, product), building custom dashboards and reports to track multi-channel programme performance and customer cohorts, and joining marketing data with sales data to calculate true profitability.

5What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing in Where you are nowThe step above
Campaign Strategy & Channel Mix Executes defined campaign plans, proposes minor adjustments to specific channel tactics. Independently designs and manages single-channel campaigns within broader strategy, proposes multi-channel tactics. Designs and implements multi-channel campaign strategies for specific product lines or smaller initiatives, makes recommendations for overall channel mix.
Budget Allocation & Spend Manages daily spend within allocated campaign budgets, flags over/under spend to supervisor. Manages monthly channel budgets up to £10K, makes optimisation decisions within budget. Manages programme budgets up to £50K, reallocates spend across channels within programme to optimise performance.
A/B Testing & Optimisation Sets up and monitors basic A/B tests following guidelines, reports results. Designs and executes A/B tests for specific campaign elements (e.g., ad copy, email subject lines), interprets results and makes recommendations. Designs and implements complex A/B testing roadmaps for a channel or workstream, ensures statistical significance, and drives optimisation based on insights.
Team Management & Development No direct reports. Focuses on personal learning and task execution. No direct reports. May informally guide new joiners on specific tasks. Mentors 0-2 junior team members, provides informal feedback and support on specific projects.

6How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, and what is not on it. The hard targets, how often each is actually looked at, and the quiet signals that never reach a dashboard.

Overall E-commerce ROAS (Return on Ad Spend)
The total revenue generated for every pound spent on advertising across all your managed channels.
Target · Maintain or increase blended ROAS by 15% year-on-year for your programmes.

If your Q2 campaigns spent £100,000 and generated £450,000 in revenue, that's a 4.5:1 ROAS. We'd expect to see this consistently improve.

Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) Growth
The predicted total revenue a customer will generate over their relationship with us, specifically for cohorts acquired under your programmes.
Target · Increase CLV by 10% for new customer cohorts within 12 months of acquisition.

Analysing customers acquired during your Q1 product launch, we'd expect their average spend over 12 months to be 10% higher than previous cohorts.

Site Conversion Rate (CVR) for Key Funnels
The percentage of website visitors who complete a desired action, like making a purchase, specifically within the funnels you're optimising.
Target · Improve CVR by 0.2 percentage points (e.g., from 2.0% to 2.2%) through A/B testing and optimisation.

If your checkout flow currently converts at 3%, we'd want to see your changes push that to at least 3.2% through rigorous testing.

Blended Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Reduction
The average cost to acquire a new customer across all your managed marketing channels, taking into account all spend.
Target · Reduce blended CAC by 10% year-on-year for your assigned programmes.

If it currently costs £50 to acquire a new customer, we'd aim to get that down to £45 while maintaining or increasing volume.

Team Performance & Development
The growth and effectiveness of your direct reports, including their ability to hit individual targets and take on more complex work.
Target · At least 80% of your team members meet or exceed their individual performance goals, and you successfully mentor one L2 specialist to L3 promotion annually.

Your team consistently delivers campaigns on time and budget, and you've helped a specialist take ownership of a new channel, leading to their promotion.

Strategic Influence & Collaboration
Your ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams, getting them on board with your strategic marketing plans.
  • You're regularly invited to strategic planning meetings outside of your immediate team. Product and Sales leads proactively seek your input on new initiatives. Your proposals for budget allocation or new campaign approaches are often adopted because you've built a strong, data-backed case.
Problem Solving for Ambiguous Situations
How well you navigate novel or unclear marketing challenges, turning them into clear plans of action for your team.
  • When an algorithm changes or a new competitor emerges, you're the first to present a clear analysis of the impact and a revised strategy. You're not just identifying problems
  • you're architecting solutions and getting buy-in from others to implement them.
Quality of Programme Architecture
The robustness and scalability of the multi-channel marketing programmes you design and oversee.
  • Your campaign structures are well-documented, easy for your team to execute, and consistently deliver predictable results. They can handle unexpected changes without falling apart. You've built a solid framework that others look to as an example.
Mentorship and Team Empowerment
Your effectiveness in developing your direct reports, helping them grow their skills and take on more responsibility.
  • Your team members feel supported and challenged. They regularly come to you for guidance, but also feel empowered to make decisions within their scope. You've got a clear plan for each person's development, and you're actively working to help them achieve it.

7Would you like it

Both sides. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Building and Leading a High-Impact Programme

You'll get a real kick out of seeing your strategic vision come to life, from the initial planning stages to the final revenue numbers. You'll enjoy the challenge of overseeing multiple channels and ensuring they work together to achieve a common goal. Plus, you'll love watching your team grow and succeed under your guidance.

Successfully launching a new product line with a fully integrated marketing programme that smashes its revenue targets, and seeing your team members develop new skills in the process.

Solving Complex, Ambiguous Problems

You thrive on figuring out 'the why' behind performance fluctuations, dissecting market trends, and developing innovative solutions to tricky marketing challenges. The more complex the puzzle, the more engaged you'll be. You're not afraid of a blank slate.

When a major competitor enters the market, you'll relish the task of re-architecting your acquisition strategy to maintain market share and profitability.

Driving Tangible Business Growth

You're motivated by seeing your strategies directly contribute to the company's bottom line. The numbers matter to you – not just clicks, but actual revenue, profit, and customer lifetime value. You want your work to have a clear, measurable impact on the business.

Presenting quarterly results to leadership where you can clearly demonstrate how your programmes contributed to a significant increase in e-commerce revenue and profitability.

What frustrates people
  • The Attribution Black Box: Trying to accurately prove the value of your multi-channel programmes when different platforms report different numbers and leadership only cares about the last click.
  • The Algorithm Changed: Waking up to find your best-performing campaigns have tanked overnight because Google or Meta tweaked something without warning, requiring a complete strategic rethink.
  • Dirty Data & Tracking Issues: Spending valuable strategic time trying to figure out why Klaviyo revenue doesn't match Shopify revenue, which doesn't match GA4 revenue, impacting your ability to make informed decisions.
  • The HiPPO Effect: Presenting a statistically significant A/B test result or a data-backed strategic recommendation, only to be overruled because the 'Highest Paid Person's Opinion' prefers a different approach.
  • The Content Bottleneck: Having a brilliant, integrated campaign idea that gets stuck for weeks (or months) waiting for creative assets from an overloaded design team, delaying your strategic rollout.
What this role does not give you
  • A perfectly clean, consistent data set for every analysis – you'll often need to roll up your sleeves and do some data wrangling.
  • The luxury of working on a single channel in isolation – you're expected to think holistically and integrate across channels.
  • A predictable, unchanging work environment – you'll need to adapt to new technologies, market shifts, and algorithm updates constantly.
  • Complete autonomy over the entire marketing budget – you'll manage significant programme budgets, but the overall marketing budget is set at a higher level.

8Who you work with

This role directly shapes the strategy and execution of our core e-commerce marketing programmes, driving a significant portion of our online revenue. Your decisions will influence customer acquisition costs, retention rates, and ultimately, the profitability of key product categories. You're building the engine that fuels our digital growth, so your impact is felt across the entire business unit.

Inside the business
  • E-commerce Marketing Manager (your direct boss)
  • Product Management Leads (especially for new launches)
  • Sales Operations (for alignment on promotions and inventory)
  • Data & Analytics Team (for deeper insights and reporting infrastructure)
  • Creative & Brand Team (for campaign assets and brand consistency)
  • Finance Business Partners (for budget approvals and performance reviews)
Outside the business
  • Strategic Ad Platform Partners (Google, Meta, TikTok)
  • Key Agency Contacts (for specialised areas like programmatic or influencer marketing)
  • E-commerce Technology Vendors (Shopify Plus, Klaviyo, etc.)
  • CRM & CDP Providers

9What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • Proven track record of successfully managing and optimising significant e-commerce marketing channels (e.g., Paid Social, PPC, Email) to hit ambitious targets.
  • Demonstrable experience in designing, executing, and analysing complex A/B tests to drive measurable improvements in conversion rates and other key metrics.
  • Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret complex data sets from multiple sources (GA4, ad platforms, CRM) and translate them into actionable strategic insights.
  • Experience in mentoring or informally leading junior marketing professionals, sharing knowledge, and helping them grow their skills.
  • A solid understanding of customer segmentation, lifecycle marketing, and the principles of Customer Lifetime Value (CLV).

10What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

E-commerce Platform Architecture & Integration

As e-commerce platforms become more modular and API-driven (e.g., headless commerce), understanding how different systems (CRM, ERP, analytics, payment gateways) integrate will be crucial. You'll need to guide your team and work with developers to ensure seamless data flow and functionality across the entire customer experience.

Headless Commerce Principles · API Management & Data Flow · Microservices Architecture in E-commerce

  • This month: Schedule a meeting with our development team to understand our current e-commerce tech stack and its integrations.
  • Next quarter: Research common e-commerce integration patterns and best practices for platforms like Shopify Plus.
  • Month 4-6: Lead a project to improve data flow or integration between two marketing-critical systems (e.g., Klaviyo and Shopify).
  • Month 7-9: Document our current marketing tech stack integrations and identify areas for improvement or future investment.

Quick win: Map out the current data flow from customer interaction to our analytics and CRM systems. Just visualising it will highlight potential issues.

Advanced Data Visualisation & Storytelling (BI Tools)

With more data points than ever, the ability to not just analyse data but to present it in a compelling, actionable way to senior leadership is paramount. You'll need to move beyond standard dashboards to build custom, interactive visualisations that tell a clear story and drive strategic decisions.

Dashboard Design Principles for Executives · Interactive Reporting & Drill-Down Capabilities · Data Storytelling Techniques

  • This month: Take an online course on advanced Looker/Tableau dashboard design or data storytelling.
  • Next quarter: Redesign one of your team's key performance dashboards to be more executive-friendly and actionable.
  • Month 4-6: Present a complex data analysis to leadership using only visualisations, focusing on the story and recommendations.
  • Month 7-9: Mentor a junior analyst on best practices for data visualisation and reporting.

Quick win: For your next performance review, try to summarise your key insights in just one or two compelling charts before diving into the details. See how it lands.

11Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attend industry webinars, conferences (e.g., BrightonSEO, MeasureCamp), and workshops to stay current on the latest e-commerce marketing trends and technologies.
  • Actively participate in online communities or forums for e-commerce marketing professionals, sharing insights and learning from peers.
  • Subscribe to leading industry publications and newsletters (e.g., Marketing Week, Econsultancy, Search Engine Land) to keep abreast of market developments.
  • Take advanced courses in data analytics, SQL, or Python to deepen your ability to work with and interpret complex data sets.
  • Seek out mentorship from senior leaders within the company or external industry experts to refine your strategic thinking and leadership skills.

12The rising capability

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Advanced AI-Driven Attribution & Predictive Modelling

With the deprecation of third-party cookies and increasing privacy regulations, traditional attribution models are becoming less reliable. The future of understanding marketing effectiveness lies in using AI and machine learning to build more accurate, privacy-centric attribution models and to predict customer behaviour with greater precision. Those who master this will unlock significant competitive advantage.

  • Probabilistic vs. Deterministic Attribution
  • Machine Learning for CLV Prediction
  • Incrementality Testing Frameworks
  • Synthetic Data Generation

Web3 & Decentralised Commerce Strategy

While still nascent, Web3 technologies (NFTs, blockchain, metaverse experiences) are starting to offer new ways for brands to engage with customers, build communities, and create unique digital assets. As a lead, understanding these shifts will be crucial for identifying future growth opportunities and staying relevant in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. It's not just hype; it's a potential new frontier for e-commerce.

  • NFTs for Brand Loyalty & Community
  • Metaverse Commerce Experiences
  • Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs)
  • Blockchain for Supply Chain Transparency & Authenticity

13What you’ll use

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) Programme Design
  • Performance Marketing & Multi-Channel Budget Allocation
  • Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) & Advanced Cohort Analysis
  • Multi-Touch Attribution Modelling & Data Integration
  • E-commerce SEO Strategy & Technical Auditing
  • Advanced Email & CRM Automation Architecture

14The pathway

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    From Senior E-commerce Marketing Specialist (L3)

    3-5 years as an L3

    Skills to master

    • Moving from optimising specific channels to architecting multi-channel programmes, developing strong leadership and mentorship skills, and demonstrating the ability to influence senior stakeholders with data-backed strategies.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently exceeding channel-specific ROAS and CVR targets.
    • Successfully leading smaller, cross-functional marketing projects end-to-end.
    • Proactively identifying new growth opportunities and presenting well-researched proposals.
    • Informally mentoring junior team members and being a go-to person for complex technical challenges.
  2. 2

    From E-commerce Lead at a Smaller Company

    Roughly 2-4 years in a lead role

    Skills to master

    • Adapting to a larger organisational structure, managing more complex budgets and larger teams, and navigating more intricate stakeholder relationships. You'll need to scale your strategic thinking.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Proven track record of building and leading an e-commerce marketing function from the ground up or significantly scaling it.
    • Experience managing a small team and being accountable for their performance.
    • Comfortable with end-to-end P&L responsibility for e-commerce marketing.
    • Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and strategic decision-making.
  3. 3

    From Performance Marketing Manager (Agency Side)

    5-7 years in an agency, with at least 2 years managing client accounts and teams.

    Skills to master

    • Shifting from client-focused execution to in-house strategic ownership, understanding internal business dynamics, and building long-term, integrated programmes rather than campaign-specific projects. You'll need to develop a deeper understanding of our specific business unit economics.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully managed multiple client accounts with significant budgets and diverse objectives.
    • Experience leading a team of performance marketers and developing their skills.
    • Strong ability to translate client business goals into actionable marketing strategies.
    • Demonstrated experience in cross-channel strategy and reporting.

15Where this role leads

The long view: This role can lead to director of e-commerce, VP of growth or chief digital officer, or head of digital product.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how E-commerce Marketing Lead is actually changing.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Digital Marketing, worked against E-commerce Marketing Lead.

Digital Marketing Entry Level

Applied to your work in E-commerce Marketing Lead

This unit aims to provide learners with an understanding of digital marketing principles and techniques. Upon completion, learners will be able to identify and explain key aspects of digital marketing via social media, email campaigns, and online advertisements, and apply these to market a product digitally.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time.

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E-commerce Marketing Lead
  • Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) Programme Design
  • Performance Marketing & Multi-Channel Budget Allocation
  • Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) & Advanced Cohort Analysis
  • Multi-Touch Attribution Modelling & Data Integration
  • E-commerce SEO Strategy & Technical Auditing
  • Advanced Email & CRM Automation Architecture
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

16The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

E-commerce Marketing Lead is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. E-commerce Marketing Manager (L5)

    3-5 years in the Lead role

    This is a significant step up, moving from leading programmes and a small team to directing an entire function (e.g., Customer Acquisition, Retention) and managing managers. You'll own a larger P&L and be responsible for organisational design within your function.

    • P&L Management & Financial Forecasting (owning a larger P&L, making strategic investment decisions)
    • Vendor & Partner Relationship Management (negotiating high-value contracts, managing strategic partnerships)
    • Cross-Functional Strategy Integration (ensuring marketing strategy aligns seamlessly with product, sales, and operations)
    • Market Research & Competitive Intelligence (driving deeper market understanding to inform functional strategy)
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be honest, a big chunk of your week is probably spent on repetitive tasks that, while necessary, don't always feel like the best use of your lead-level brainpower. Imagine if you could reclaim those hours. Well, you can. We're investing heavily in AI tools to help our marketing team work smarter, not just harder.

Our goal isn't to replace your expertise, but to augment it. We want you to spend more time on high-impact strategic thinking, programme architecture, and team development, and less time on the grunt work. By integrating AI into your daily workflow, you and your team can automate the mundane, gain insights faster, and focus on what truly moves the needle for our e-commerce business.

Ad Copy & Product Description Generator

Use tools like Jasper or Copy.ai, trained on our specific brand voice, to quickly generate dozens of variations for ad headlines, email subject lines, and SEO-optimised product descriptions. This means your team can run more A/B tests, faster, without getting bogged down in writing from scratch. You'll focus on refining the best options, not just creating them.

Anomaly Detection Assistant

Leverage AI features within platforms like GA4 or dedicated tools to automatically flag significant deviations in campaign performance (e.g., a sudden drop in conversion rate for a specific product category or audience). This frees you and your team from manually sifting through reports, allowing you to react to issues and opportunities much quicker, often before they become major problems.

Competitor & Keyword Research Scout

Employ AI tools to analyse and summarise competitor ad strategies, top-performing organic content, and emerging keyword opportunities. What used to take days of manual research can now be condensed into a concise daily or weekly brief, giving you strategic insights to adapt your programmes and stay ahead of the curve.

Performance Report Drafter

Connect AI to your analytics platforms to auto-generate the first draft of weekly or monthly performance reports for your programmes. This includes charts, key metrics, and initial insights. You'll then spend your time adding strategic commentary, context, and actionable recommendations for leadership, rather than spending hours pulling data and formatting slides.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become an E-commerce Marketing Lead?

Common routes in include From Senior E-commerce Marketing Specialist (3-5 years as an L3), From E-commerce Lead at a Smaller Company (Roughly 2-4 years in a lead role) and From Performance Marketing Manager (Agency Side) (5-7 years in an agency, with at least 2 years managing client accounts and teams.). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can an E-commerce Marketing Lead progress to?

This role can lead on to E-commerce Marketing Manager (3-5 years in the Lead role), depending on the skills you build.

What new skills matter most for an E-commerce Marketing Lead?

Increasingly, Advanced AI-Driven Attribution & Predictive Modelling and Web3 & Decentralised Commerce Strategy. These are the skills our record of this role lists as growing.

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17Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

 More jobs in marketing

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.
If you leave this industry

The skills built here, including programme management, data-driven decision-making, team leadership, and digital customer acquisition and retention, carry across industries. This can lead to other direct-to-consumer businesses such as retail, SaaS or subscription services, agency leadership, or consultancy work advising brands on e-commerce growth.

This role profile is © 2026 Growth Engineering Technologies Ltd. Built from UK occupational standards and regulated qualification data, and written for Zavmo.

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