•  Minimum 2 years relevant experience in international e-commerce
•  Track record in managing multidisciplinary teams
•  Strong commercial background with proven track record in online revenue generation
•  Strategic planning and goal setting
•  Excellent project management skills
•  Master or Bachelor degree educated
•  Excellent command of English language

Personal qualities:

•  Independent
•  Proactive
•  Leader
•  Persistent
•  Commercial acumen
•  Strong prioritization skills
•  Flexible 

Inter Personal / Relational Behaviour

•  Strong communication and presentation skills
•  Coaching and developing team
•  Good negotiation skills
•  Good communication skills 

Management Behaviour

•  Effective and motivational team leader
•  Strong project management & analytical skills
•  Has natural impact and influence
•  Leads projects and meets deadlines

• The Manager E-commerce is responsible for preparing, implementing and executing the E-Marketing business plan (with goals and strategies) and budget.
•  Manage and develop the e-commerce for La Varenne hotel.
•  The E-commerce manager has full responsibility for prioritizing projects and seeing these projects through from start to finish ensuring that deadlines are being met and that the projects stays within budget. Where possible, a return on investment should be established and the manager is responsible for communicating those returns and looking to further improve these. Where it is not possible to establish an ROI the manager should critically review the processes and procedures of each project and try to improve efficiency by changing methods or tools used.
• - The E-commerce manager will liaise with key contacts on an international basis and establish a network of viable audience programme partners (strategic alliances, affiliate programmes etc).
•  Responsible for further developing existing, and identifying new, traffic and revenue generating initiatives.
•  Improve search engine rankings by working with agencies and proven techniques such as search engine optimization.
•  Actively develop and implement the search engine advertising strategy.
•  Improve market share of direct channels.
•  Improve customer experience online and grow customer engagement.
•  Develop strong commercial propositions and campaigns and market these through the appropriate websites and other owned media and third party channels, including bu not limited to email newsletters, social media, display, advertising and affiliate networks
•  Responsible for 3rd party supplier selection, price negotiations, budget management and project management.
•  Develop new websites where and when needed (i.e. promotional websites, new hotel websites and restaurant and bar websites).
•  Development and maintenance of content of the Company’s brands, hotel, restaurant and supporting websites.
•  Oversee the translation process of the various websites to multiple languages.
•  Manage all existing domain names and register relevant new domains.
•  Prepare SOP & Marketing toolkits for offices / hotels from an E-Marketing perspective.
•  Closely monitor industry and competitor initiatives and try to give the Company a competitive edge by identifying niche areas and opportunities.
•  Assist in the development and maintenance of various supporting websites such as Intranets and other proprietary tools.
•  Keeping management, and hotels up-to- date on key e-marketing initiatives and sharing of opportunities and success stories are also part of the responsibilities.
•  Support the wider marketing and sales team and other areas of the business when required.
•  Other related duties as may be assigned from time to time by the general manager and/or managing director.