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Commercial Trading Manager

Job Req ID:  50360
Posting Date:  21 Aug 2025
Function:  Sales and Commercial
Unit:  Consumer
Location: 

UK Wide, United Kingdom

Salary:  Competitive with great benefits

London, Newcastle, Darlington or Glasgow

3 days in the office, 2 days remote

 

About EE

We’re EE. We are the biggest mobile and broadband operator in the UK and we have a relationship in every second household in the country. But we’re for everyone, on any network – serving up new tech, new services, and heaps of inspiration for every aspect of your connected life.

 

We’ve been awarded the UK’s best network for the last 10 years. It’s central to our vision – to be the most personal customer-focused technology company in the UK.

 

That means earning a place on customers’ home screens by offering them more than ever before, whether that’s helping their home run smarter with EE Home, levelling up their play with EE Game, helping them work on their terms with EE Work, or even unleashing their kids’ learning with EE Learn. 

 

We’re also part of BT Group, which we’re even bigger than you might think. Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding. 

 

We think we’ve got something special here. We want everyone to feel proud about working at EE – and feel excited about where we’re going and what we’re going to do. Want to join in? 

 

Why this job matters

Commercial Trading sits at the heart of the business to optimize our commercial outcomes taking external and internal factors into account.

 

The area is responsible for steering the business through changes in a rapidly evolving market to be able to deliver our budget P&L ambition and deliver to our proposition, distribution and investment strategies.

 

The Commercial Trading Manager role is a key element in striking the right balance between ensuring our customers’ needs are met, new and existing, in the most commercially optimal way possible using our channels & frontline feedback to help inform investment decision making.

What you’ll be doing

  • Able to understand performance through reporting actuals and comparing to target
  • Interpret the results through analysis and enrich using other sources of information from channels and market to propose commercial interventions to trade to target or progress opportunities / mitigate risk
  • Responsible for ensuring brilliant execution of commercial changes including system changes & briefing content into channels working with the comms teams
  • Contribute to the weekly commercial trading governance cycle taking ownership of your metrics and targets to create content to share at weekly trading meetings and commercial board
  • Able to create business cases & post implementation reviews.
  • Work collaboratively with Channels,  Finance, Marketing, Comms and System teams to diagnose issues and implement remedial action to course correct to target
  • Pull together content that represents your area of responsibility as part of the weekly trading governance & communicate, as required, to Senior Trading Manager, Trading Director and other senior leadership.

The skills and experience you'll have under your belt

  • Previous trading experience 
  • Ability to extract data from app based reporting systems and produce PowerPoint slides
  • Experience of working in a fast paced environment including quick decision making
  • Excellent organisational skills, including the ability to meet deadlines of weekly trading governance
  • Superb stakeholder management skills across all directorates
  • Strong communication skills to be able to clearly articulate complex issues, dependencies and influence to gain alignment on recommendations
  • Team player & adaptable to be able to multi task

Benefits

  • Annual on target bonus 10% (based on both personal and company performance)
  • BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
  • 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays with the option to buy up to one week's work of your contracted hours. This will also increase with service.
  • 2 weeks carer’s leave
  • From January 2025, all parents welcoming a new child will be eligible for our new Family Leave policy. You will receive 18 weeks at full pay, eight weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It is for all parents, no matter how your family is made.
  • Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
  • Life Assurance (4 x life cover pay)
  • Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
  • 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans.
  • My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers.
  • Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership.
  • Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
  • Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community.
  • Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV.’
  • 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’ 

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development. 

 

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

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