Digital Trading & Merchandising Manager (Life Sciences)

Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom; on-site role. Some travel may be required, up to 15%.

Company

hirify.global operates Abcam, a life sciences company providing biological reagents and solutions for scientific research, diagnostics, and biotechnology.

What you will do

• Own the digital trading and merchandising strategy across a portfolio of more than 90,000 life science products.
• Manage ecommerce experiences across the homepage, search, category pages, product pages, basket, and checkout.
• Lead the global promotional calendar and execute product placements, recommendations, campaign assets, and cross-sell and up-sell initiatives.
• Improve product discoverability through search, navigation, filtering, taxonomy, category merchandising, and conversion optimization.
• Partner with Product Management and Commercial teams to translate portfolio, category, and regional priorities into digital merchandising strategies.
• Use data and AI to optimize trading performance and deliver new ecommerce capabilities, merchandising tools, and platform enhancements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, ecommerce, or a related discipline.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in digital trading, merchandising, or ecommerce within a global, multi-category digital business with a large catalog.
• Experience managing global ecommerce merchandising, customer acquisition, and cross-sell and up-sell initiatives.
• Experience with search, CMS, and merchandising platforms such as Coveo, Adobe Experience Manager, TalonOne, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or similar tools.
• Strong analytical, stakeholder management, program management, and communication skills, including the ability to derive actionable insights from large datasets.

Nice to have

• Experience in life sciences, healthcare, B2B ecommerce, or complex product catalogs.
• Experience with personalization, recommendation engines, and AI-powered merchandising solutions.
• Knowledge of SEO and digital acquisition channels.

Culture & Benefits

• Part of the Global Marketing team and reporting to the Senior Director, Digital Commerce.
• Work within hirify.global’s continuous improvement system.
• Benefits include healthcare programs and paid time off.
• Collaborate with colleagues and customers across the globe in life sciences and biotechnology.