Ecommerce Department of The Future – Ecommerce UK introduces a selection of seasoned multichannel retailers and experts to talk about how their careers have progressed, as well as how and why ecommerce departments (and wider organisations) are changing to embrace multichannel retail. Presentations from Nupur Manchanda, Practicology; Emma Grinter, Waterstone’s; Jamie Merrick, Demandware; Marianna Satanas, Mr Porter; Ian Scarr, SLI SYstems; Arif Harbott, Morrisons; Elliot Zissman, Pythian; Jonathan Hall, Cranberry Panda.
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The Ecommerce Department of The Future
1. Ecommerce UK
The Ecommerce Department of the Future
Martin Newman – CEO Practicology
Tonight’s hashtag: #EcomCareers Wifi code: Newton+apple
2. Thank You
The attendees, without you, we have no one
to share insight with
Presenters for sharing insight
Tonight’s sponsors without whom this event
wouldn’t take place: Demandware, SLI
Systems and Pythian
Practicology team here tonight: Nupur,
Jeremy, Joanna, James, Volha, Tina, Sarah
and Laura (My wife)
3. Thank You
Thanks to Joanna for moderating
Cathy Crawley, my co-host
Jonathan Hall and Cranberry Panda for
filming
Antony Alexandrou for
photography www.3aphotography.com
4. Agenda
Introduction: Martin Newman, CEO and Nupur Manchanda,
Managing Consultant at Practicology
Presentations:
• Emma Grinter, Senior Online Marketing Manager, Waterstones
• Jamie Merrick, Sales Engineer Demandware
• Marianna Satanas, Head of Ecommerce, Mr Porter
• Ian Scarr, UK & EMEA Region Director of Sales, SLI Systems
• Arif Harbott, Ecommerce Director for Online Food, Morrisons
• Elliot Zissman, Director of Sales, Pythian
• Jonathan Hall, Founder, Cranberry Panda
Q&A
The bar
6. And there is more to come…
Ecommerce sales are growing as a percentage
of total retail sales and becoming a significant
part of many retailers’ total businesses
£4bn – Amazon UK £2.5bn – Tesco Direct
£1.65bn – Argos £1.2bn – Next
£1.13bn – Sainsbury’s £1bn – Dixons
£950m – Asda £950m – John Lewis
£800m – M&S £366m – Debenhams
£265m – Sports Direct £240m – Arcadia
7. Once online revenue becomes
significant for retailers they must
consider how they organise
themselves to maximise sales
and profitability
11. The evolution of a Multichannel
organisation
Standalone
eCommerce
Semi Integrated Fully Integrated
Most retailers are
here
12. How might the eCommerce team
change as a result?
The eCommerce/Multichannel department will
be less siloed from the rest of the business
Customer Experience functions may emerge
with roles that include online and offline
aspects
Customer Experience will be considered end-
to-end across all channels – so UX won’t be a
discipline that’s confined to eCommerce
Traditional “retail operations” will make way for
operations – including supply chain and IT
13. This creates opportunities for you!
The Multichannel and eCommerce Directors of
today are the CEOs of the future
New senior job roles are emerging that require
candidates who are digitally savvy – e.g. Chief
Customer Officer
Staff with analytics/insight skills are
increasingly being deployed in organisations
who want to understand their customers
Multichannel retailing is driving sales growth
for most retailers – demand for digital skills at
all levels is increasing
15. How I am still climbing in the
Snakes & Ladders of
eCommerce
by Emma Grinter
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21. Chapter 1: 1999 – 2004
There’s a first time for everything
Chapter 2: 2004 – 2009
The bright lights of the internet
Chapter 3: 2009 – 2014
Déjà vu
Chapter 4: 2014 – 2019
Success is in the eye of the beholder
Epilogue
Contents
29. 1996 - 1998 BTEC Graphic Design
1998 - 2000 HND Graphic Design
2000 – 2002 BA Graphic Design
NO WORK YET LET ME TRAVEL
2003 – 06 Vibrant Studios – Ecommerce Agency - Director
TOO YOUNG! NEED MORE EXPERIENCE
2006 Joined NET-A-PORTER Group
2006 – 08 Web Producer
2008 – 10 Web Production Lead
2010 – 12 Web Production Manager
2012 – 14 Product Manager MR PORTER.COM
2012 – 14 MSc Internet Retailing
2014 Head of Ecommerce MR PORTER.COM
My Ecommerce Career so far……
31. PEOPLE
• Risk-takers
• Always Learning
• Great Merchandisers
• Can Do Attitude
• Think Outside the Box
• Trustworthy
• UX
• Be the Best
• Logical
• Entrepreneurial
• Talented Developers
• Digital Designers
• Great Merchandisers
• UX
• Digital Marketers
• Influential Editors
• Clever Buyers
• Business Analysts
• Productive Project Managers
ATTITUDE
35. Value of Search
*Based on analytics data for 200+ retailers
11%
higher
3x
greater
6 Min.
longer
Searchers vs. non-searchers*
$11.09
w/ search
$4.62
w/o search
7
more
Pages Per Visit
41. The Rise of Mobile Search
• 25% of all search queries are made on mobiles
• 59% of smartphone users regularly access search
• 55% of conversions following a mobile search happen within
an hour
• 50% of searches FAIL to find what the searcher is looking for
*Source – digitaldoughnut.com – The Rise of Mobile Search
44. Sports Authority
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57. The changing technology
landscape will influence the shape
of your Ecommerce team
Is it all getting too much?
Ecommerce UK, July 2014
Elliot Zissman, Director of Sales
64. AS DID CUSTOMER DEMANDS
• Along with eBay…
– Came fraud solutions
– The payment landscape changed
• New alternative payment providers (like PayPal)
• Along with Amazon…
– Came shipping and logistics solutions
– Market Places
– Drop shipping
• Along with social media…
– Came comparison engines
– Rating systems
– User feedback and sharing
66. AND YOUR TEAM GREW
• Led by a young, dynamic Head of Multi-Channel
Developers DBAs
Infrastructure team
Marketing Merchandising
67. AND CUSTOMERS STILL ASK FOR MORE
• Personalisation
– Order history
– Know your household (KYC)
– Personalization
• Connectivity
– An educated customer
– Best price wanted in-store & on-line
– Salesteam may have less knowledge than shopper
• All systems expected to be fully integrated
– Single view of customer
– High performance
– High security
71. IS IT TIME TO STEP BACK AND THINK?
• What roles in your organisation are there just to
keep the lights on?
• What roles are giving you a competitive
advantage?
75. Do you want this to happen again?
• How big a team do you want to manage?
76. FOR US, IT’S ABOUT DATA
• Focus in on your data – can your team give you
insights? Or just keep the lights on?
Data experts
Customer
insights
Product analysis
77. HOW PYTHIAN WORKS WITH RETAILERS
Pythian’s outsourced database experts offer:
• Performance Management
• High Availability
• System Integration
• Big Data
Business Benefits:
• Increase response times for better customer service and retention
• Accommodate growth with improved scalability
• Improve security for PCI compliance and protect against data breaches
• Integrate with backend systems for fast, seamless services
• Minimize data loss and downtime with high availability
• Support big data analytics
Allows you to:
• Make data available to customers improved customer engagement, retention, and loyalty.
• Personalise site for more targeted customer offerings to enhance customers’ shopping experience
and increase revenues
• Deliver data fast to reduce cart abandonment
81. brief intro...
cranberry panda is 4yrs old
specialist agency focusing on ecommerce
team of 17 pandas
we are from ecommerce
clients range from John Lewis & Argos to online start ups
82. skills in demand
a shortage across all roles
60% of roles are new roles
teams are growing and roles are dividing
specialisms moving internal – e.g. search
design – huge trend for contracting
83. emerging roles and skills
design – UX/UI
search is dividing – social, display
analysts – data and business as well as web
internal strategy and innovation
85. where the big bucks are
all areas – average salary in ecommerce is £40,200
finance and gambling
all areas of analytics
where’s the excitement?
86. there is a
gender gap in
ecommerce
ecommerce
is 51% male
& 49% female
71% had a
pay rise last
year
feeling valued
and respected is
the most
important thing
people look
for
Some
interesting
stats!!
majority
expect a rise
of 10% - 20%
when moving
roles
ecommerce
salaries are
48% higher than
national
average
27%
men and 51%
women are in
roles sub £35k
Hi I am Marianna Satanas a cocky but hard working North London girl who somehow ended up as HoE for Mr Porter! There are different ways of how people get into ecommerce I am here to tell you about my path….
Ever since I was at school I loved fashion but wanted to get into the publication side of it so I went to college and did BTEC in Graphic Design, my mum was pulling her hair out as she didn’t understand why I needed a degree to draw and was begging me to be a teacher!! Anyway…I quite liked what I was doing so I carried on with my
HND however I just wanted to do practical side of Graphics not write a dissertation – if im being honest I was lazy then
I learnt the same things I did at college but in further detail, when I first started my HND I wasn’t doing anything to do with digital then a year later we were introduced to digital photography which blew my mine – im easily impressed
Love HND so much wanted to learn more so I started my BA- …literally 6 months into starting I was designing pages for this thing called the Internet, never heard of it before! And for a browser called Netscape anyone remember that - I am getting old
Even though my studies had nothing to do with eCommerce what I learnt then helped some aspects of my career
First freak out I needed a Break – personal stuff all too much, was graphics the career for me etc
2003 – I went to a company called Vibrant Studios which was set up as an extension of PC Angels who specialized in epos systems for physical stores. As soon as I joined everyone all of a sudden everyone wanted an transactional website. This was my first real experience with ecommerce, I did everything, sales, web design and dev, Marketing, Merchandising on sites, implementation of the backend stock system with Actinic which was the front end ‘store’, you name it I did it, even made the tea and sandwiches!!
After nearly 3 years felt I needed to get more experience in ecom from an established business rather than just winging it. Don’t get me wrong we were doing good stuff clients saw positive results considering people were still skeptical/scared to shop online…… SO
2006 an opportunity came up at NAP as a web producer took it…the job entailed creating and maintaining NAPs content, there were 20 people at the time in tech and 2 in Web Production.
I first looked at NAP in 2000 and I thought nobody is going to buy products that cost that much…. How wrong I was….
Even though I didn’t study web development or ecomm everything that I learnt at uni I was able to apply at NAP esp UX how people react to layouts, colours, positioning etc.
Wasn’t until I was Web Prod Man I got stuck into ecomm with the development of TON. Learnt a lot form my bosses boss who was VP of ecom at the time about quick wins, navigation, purchasing… Its really important to have someone you can learn from in your career doesn’t have to be your direct boss and that person doesn’t have to work at the same company as you.
2012 – I realized I was doing too much, responsible for the content creation and maintenance of the 3 sites, managing 12 people, as well as getting involved in strategic projects! Plus I just started my MSc In Internet Relating!!! As I was doing too much I wasn’t doing anything well, lesson here is to do less and do it the best you can. Trust me everyone will benefit to this! It is a skill to know when you are taking too much on and actually speaking up about it. Never be afraid of raising the red flag.
On the verge of another breakdown as I was juggling too many things my old bosses boss was now MD of Mr P asked if I would be interested as product manager of Mr p. I jumped at the chance as I knew I would be working on one brand and responsible for the business requirements that tech needed to work on. Being a PM which at MR P is essentially responsible for ecom and you have to wear many hats, tech, business, merchandising, creative, marketing, product management, you do end up arguing with yourself about what needs to be prioritized but in the end you get there! I learnt about Stakeholder management, trying to keep everyone happy is tough but the most important people and the only people that matter are your customers! And ok maybe you boss and CEO
I am now HOE of Mr P dealing with the Execs more, I am apart of the senior management team , even though I don’t directly manage people (I have dotted lines and I am the key stakeholder) I have to be an influencer which for me in my experience is much more of a challenge than managing people.
I’ve picked up many skills over the years at NAP, as a result I am able to manage upwards, give advice the Executive team and to my peers in other departments, run the management of the ‘Mr porter shop floor’ so the Execs can get on with their top level strategic work, very importantly my MD and key stakeholders trust what I am prioritizing is best for business and customers.
When I first started I had some key skills, in hindsight the most important one was Communication. Apparently until I joined the company nobody from Tech actually spoke to Creative!! When I asked the Creative Production Manager to approve the magazine on our preview environment she told me she thought someone was pulling her leg. In-fact she actually had to come to my desk to see if I was real!
As the business was expanding I had to grow the Web Production team from 2 – 12, I had never been a manager before so I learnt how to manage people on the fly – that was fun!!
Not only was the business growing but so was my role and responsibilities. I learnt how to listen and be patient as not only did I have to manage my team but also my stakeholders. Being involved in the development of the Outnet I started to acquire more UX skills and the tricks of eCommerce.
Technology keeps on evolving, its so great but so can be annoying at the same time Luckily Agile was introduced to the company in 2009, it was easy to adapt to how IT were developing and releasing features especially now that I had to take Mobile devices into consideration.
I’ve never stopped learning and acquiring new skills, as HoE one of my roles is Comm product manager and having the ability to be an influencer is definitely helping me move Mr Porter business initiatives forward.
Of course its not just about my skillset that makes the 3 NET-A-PORTER Group brands successful. I work with some amazing people developers, marketers, merchandisers, designers, UX and they all have great skills and knowledge. However the thing that stands out to companies like ours is attitude! Nearly every person I work with is entrepreneurial and has a can do mind set, this is what helps make the NET-A-PORTER Group the success it is today.
Content
Shortage across all roles – 60 % of roles last year were brand new jobs.
Lack of people coming into ecommerce – no time to train people.
Roles dividing and sometimes hard to get people to specialise as it ends up down a dead end – where do they go.
- If there is a plan to move people, improve people,
PPC/SEO moving inhouse – ongoing trend
design – young going free-lance
Content
UX/UI/ Customer experience is a popular and hard to find role. The blend of design/analytics is an interesting mix, like creative design and front end dev – slowly stopping – salaries can be 25% higher than web designers and look at contract, project based like mobile etc.
Where they sit in the team is interesting
Search is dividing as Seo continues to be content driven and paid search crosses more channels like social biddable
Strategy, innovation specialists – purely there to guide the future
From 200 people asked there were 141 different job titles
Gaming and gambling are booming and are particularly strong in certain disciplines
- Excellent at UI to maximise spend
- Excellent, very deep analytics on the site and customer
- eCRM – some of the best, really targeted segmentation and rapid deployment
Likes of John Lewis are taking senior online marketing people from gambling – sometimes have a deeper understanding of analysis
The UK is the world leader – countries are looking at our guys to help them. We work across europe, NZ, Hong Kong – this could create a real pull for our carefully nurtured resources – ok for now as many countries are behind so hard to come back at a higher level but this will increasingly happen
Grazia recently bought xxxx – looking to launch their online store – Dailymail group with their huge content driven site is pushing it’s online channel.