Company Description
At Frasers Group we’re rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we’re serving our consumers with the world’s best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we’re elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.
Why join us?
Our mission- we are building the worlds most admired and compelling brand ecosystem.
Our purpose – we are elevating the lives of the many with access to the world’s best brands and experiences.
At Frasers Group, we fear less and do more. Our people are forward thinkers who are driven to operate outside of their comfort zone to change the future of retail, embracing challenges along the way. The potential to elevate your career is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles:
- Think without limits - Think fast, think fearlessly, and take the team with you
- Own it and back yourself - Own the basics, own your role and own the results
- Be relevant - Relevant to our people, our partners and the planet
Are you ready to join the Fearless?
Please only apply for this programme if you have the permanent right to work in the UK.
Job Description
Job title: Trainee Digital Manager
Salary: Competitive salary + free accommodation, subsidised meals, and laundry for the first year
Location: Shirebrook, North Nottinghamshire
The Programme.
Join our two-year rotational fast track Digital Leadership Elevation Programme, where you will get exposure to activities in our core digital departments: Digital Trading, Digital Optimisation and Product Management.
Working with some of the world’s most prestigious brands, you’ll directly influence our digital commercial performance, create solutions to challenging problems and take real responsibility from day one. Being consumer-centric, you will see the commercial value in activity and develop your expertise, truly understanding the digital levers that enhance performance.
Your experience will begin with an immersive orientation programme to set you up for unlimited success. After which you will live and breathe the fundamentals of digital here at Frasers Group. Working within teams that impact on Group digital commercial performance, supporting key decisions and taking central roles on projects that will help maximise the commercial impact of Frasers Group brand websites and product. You will also get the opportunity to experience life in other, cross functional worlds in the digital eco-system.
The programme is designed to help you live and breathe our principles. You’ll discover what it means to think without limits, own it, be relevant and be the next champion of commercial retail.
Qualifications
- A degree is not essential, however applicants from a commercial degree area such as Buying and Merchandising, Fashion / Fashion Management / Fashion Design, Business Studies / Management and Accountancy and Finance, are encouraged to apply
- Non-Graduates, from a retail background with a min of 2 years’ experience are also encouraged to apply
- A passionate for a career in digital and a desire for personal development
- Commercial mindset, able to see opportunities to drive profit / revenue
- A team player
- A passion for retail and fashion eCommerce
- Valid right to work in the UK
Additional Information
The Benefits.
- Free accommodation during year one of the programme based near our HQ in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, as well as subsidised food and laundry.
- Free Everlast Gym membership for your first year (full gym, and exercise class access)
- 20% discount across our brands, including Jack Wills, FLANNELS, Everlast, GAME and many more…
- Free access and support from the Retail Trust charity. This includes a 24 hour wellbeing helpline, wellness hub, counselling and financial/legal support.
- Frasers Champion - a peer nominated scheme where 8 winners will receive double their pay for a month where they have thought without limits, owned it or been relevant.
The Selection Process: (please read)
Your application will be reviewed by the Recruitment Team, and you will be informed if you have been successful within 30 days. Successful applications will be invited to complete a short online assessment, that measures aspects such as analytical skills, logic, reasoning and Frasers Group values and behaviours. If you are successful at this point, you will be invited to complete a video interview with one of the Recruitment Team, where you will get the chance to show us your fearless qualities and ask any questions about the programme, team, or group. Finally, the fearless few, will be invited to an onsite assessment centre, at our Shirebrook HQ in March 2025. Assessment centre travel expenses will be covered by Frasers Group, including trains/milage and if necessary, hotels or flights. Job offers will be issued in April and the start date for the programme is in September 2025.
What We Do
Frasers Group started as a small store in Maidenhead in 1982 and from there, grew to become a global powerhouse.
We are now a collection of the world’s most iconic brands including Sports Direct, Flannels, GAME, Jack Wills, Sofa.com, Evans Cycles, USC, and Everlast.
We believe the higher the risk, the greater the reward. We’ve never been afraid to strive forward and change the way the industry operates, diversifying our portfolio and elevating stores.
We’re pushing the boundaries of traditional retail environments; future-proofing our business and improving product access to create a shopping environment that will be fit for purpose for many more years to come.
We’re not sitting back – there’s no room for hesitation.
