JD GROUP

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, JD Sports Fashion Plc is a leading international multichannel retailer of sports, fashion and outdoor brands.

The Group has over 2,400 stores across 19 territories, despite the challenges of 2020 global revenues increased by 30% to £6,110.8 million.

Over 56,000 people work within the Group all over the world. We attract the very best talent to our teams and acknowledge the continuation of this process as an important factor in the Group’s evolution.

The Group is home to premium brands such as JD Sports, Scotts, Size?, Tessuti, GO Outdoors, Blacks, Millets, Footpatrol, Sprinter, Activinstinct & many more.

WHY JD MULTICHANNEL?

We are experiencing high growth here at JD Sports with a 64% YoY uplift in group revenue for H1 2021 in comparison to H1 last year, so it's a very exciting time to join us as we continue to expand globally.
 
In our online multichannel department in the UK alone, we've scaled up our headcount in the past year by 170 people and we are now looking to increase this by a further 120+ over the next 12 months to accommodate our growth. Outside of the UK, we’ve also been accelerating our growth throughout Europe from our local offices in Amsterdam and Alicante.

As a leading retailer, we are preferred partners with the likes of Google, Facebook and TikTok due to our extensive presence within the market. As such, they provide us with leading industry insights and training, and we are often chosen as the beta trialists for new cutting-edge features that they are planning to roll out. This means we are always at the forefront when it comes to helping to shape the industry landscape and our team has early access to brand new features and training from the world's largest tech and social companies.

In our Multichannel department we cover everything in the online and digital space and run everything internally through our world-class inhouse functions spread across: Digital Marketing (Paid Media, SEO, CRM, Affiliates, Influencers, Social, Content), Ecommerce (Online Trading, Online Visual Merchandising), Tech (Software Development FE/BE Stacks, App Development, Data, Security, UI/UX), and Studios (Design, Artwork, Retouch, Photography, Videography, Styling).

KEY DUTIES

• Write all code required for the JD Outdoor websites
• Deliver work that is of a high standard with clear technical documentation of the changes that have been made.
• Research new technologies and features
• Ensure that all features have been fully browser / device / platform testing

• Work closely with the conversion team to deliver A/B testing experiences
• Take a mobile-first approach to development
• Work closely with third-party agencies and integrate new technologies and features

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

• 2+ year in Web Development (preferably in a e-commerce background)
• Solid experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery
• Understanding of responsive design and development
• Experience with a templated based CMS (Aurora Commerce, Prestashop, Shopify etc)
• Experience of JavaScript build tools such as gulp, grunt, webpack

DESIRABLE REQUIREMENTS

• Experience with Aurora Commerce 

• Prototyping (Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma) 

• Smarty template engine 

• CSS frameworks (SASS, LESS) 

• CI/CD Pipelines 

• AWS Experience 

• Experience with atomic design 

• Experience with New Relic, Pingdom or similar 

• Experience with Google Analytics 

• Experience with integrating with payment providers 

• Automated testing experience (Unit testing, Selenium testing) 

BENEFITS

• Competitive salary 

• High spec Mac Book pro plus monitor 

• Flexible hours 

• Hybrid working 

• Professional training and conferences 

• Regular social events 

• Staff discount across the JD Group 

• Employee Perk Scheme 

• JD Gym Discount 

• Monthly staff sales 

• Free onsite parking at our head office 

• Subsidised onsite canteen 

• Free tea and coffee at the office 

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• Unfortunately, because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, we are sometimes unable to respond to every application. If you haven't heard from us within 14 days of applying, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions within JD Sports Fashion plc please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.

   

   

   

  JD Sports Fashion plc is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

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