Bring more to life.
Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?
At Abcam, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.
Progress happens together
At Abcam, we believe the scientific community goes further, faster when we go there together. That’s why we work with life scientists to provide biological reagents and solutions that enable faster breakthroughs in critical areas like cancer, neurological disorders, infectious diseases and metabolic disorders. Our talented team of over 1,400 colleagues worldwide is our greatest asset. By applying our expertise and pushing boundaries, together we strive to better serve our customers, strengthen our impact across our industry, and ultimately our positive impact on society.
Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.
The Digital Trading & Merchandising Manager is responsible for driving the performance and revenue of our digital store experience across a portfolio of 90,000+ life science products. This role sits at the intersection of ecommerce strategy, digital experience, and digital merchandising, helping scientists discover the right products and content while maximizing engagement, conversion, and revenue.
This position reports to the Senior Director, Digital Commerce and is part of the Global Marketing team. This is an on-site role.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Own Abcam's digital trading and merchandising strategy and plan, leveraging new and existing ecommerce tools across key customer journeys, including Homepage, Search, Category Pages, PDPs, Basket, and Checkout, to maximise product visibility, customer engagement, and commercial performance across the portfolio.
- Lead the global promotional calendar and digital merchandising execution, ensuring alignment with commercial objectives, product launches, inventory priorities, and growth targets, while managing the placement of promotions, featured products, recommendations, campaign assets, and cross-sell/up-sell initiatives to increase conversion and Average Order Value (AOV)
- Drive product discoverability and onsite optimisation, overseeing search, navigation, filtering, taxonomy, category merchandising, and conversion initiatives to ensure customers can efficiently find and purchase relevant products.
- Act as the strategic partner to Product Management and Commercial teams, translating portfolio, category, and regional priorities into impactful digital merchandising strategies, while collaborating across the organization to deliver consistent and commercially effective customer experiences
- Leverage data and AI to optimize trading performance and shape future agentic approaches to trading, defining and deliver new ecommerce capabilities, merchandising tools, and platform enhancements.
The essential requirements of the job include:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, ecommerce, or a related discipline.
- 6+ years of hands-on experience across digital trading, merchandising or ecommerce in a global, multi-category digital business with a large catalog
- Experience managing global ecommerce merchandising, customer acquisition and cross-sell/up-sell initiatives
- Strong experience with search, CMS and merchandising platforms such as Coveo, Adobe Experience Manager, TalonOne, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or similar tools.
- Excellent analytical, stakeholder/program and communication skills, with experience deriving actionable insights from large data sets and driving impactful commercial initiatives that drive measurable business impact
Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:
- Some travel may be required. No more than 15%
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It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
- Experience within Life Sciences, Healthcare, B2B Ecommerce, or complex product catalogs.
- Experience with personalization, recommendation engines, and AI-powered merchandising solutions.
- Demonstrable knowledge of SEO and digital acquisition channels.
Abcam, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
For more information, visit www.danaher.com.
