E Commerce & CRO Lead - 12 Month FTC

Posting date:	13 August 2025
Salary:	£37,000 to £45,000 per year
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	11 September 2025
Location:	Hybrid London/ Folkestone, N1C 4AG
Company:	Saga
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	saga/TP/205960/3331

Summary

E Commerce & CRO Lead - 12-month FTC

Salary £37,000- £45,000 (Dependent on experience)

12-month Fixed Term Contract

FT- 35 hours per week

Hybrid - London/Folkestone - Travel to the Folkestone/London Office a couple of times per month

Here at Saga, we are looking for an E-commerce & CRO Lead to join us. This will be a hands-on delivery role, leading the management of Saga’s online Quote & Buy journeys and customer account area. You will take responsibility for the day-to-day operation of our core systems, ensuring all development, issues and changes are appropriately managed and act as a lead representative for Digital Marketing to drive real customer experience and business benefit for our insurance business. This will be a varied role that will work cross-functionally and help set the strategy for the team on the customer journey.

You’ll utilise our Adobe Analytics and Target tools together with our session replay tool, Medallia and other data sources to help understand our insurance customers' experience online, highlighting key customer experience issues and opportunities to be addressed by implementing an optimisation & personalisation roadmap of activities, working together with the wider marketing, IT, product and project teams.

We need you to have experience in an eCommerce, Conversion Rate optimisation or digital product role, where you champion the user experience every day. You will need to have used digital analytics, testing and replay tools and demonstrate a working knowledge of how to extract and manipulate data and insights from these tool sets. In addition to this, any experience within digital project and/ or product management, working within a fast-paced, scrum environment where you have demonstrated strong stakeholder management and collaboration, accompanied by presentation skills to drive performance and innovation.

Package Description

At Saga we recognise that our people make us special. We believe our colleagues deserve rewards for the excellence they demonstrate every single day, that's why we have put together an amazing benefits package for all colleagues. 

BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO ALL COLLEAGUES:

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Option to purchase additional leave - 5 extra days
• Pension scheme matched up to 10%
• Company performance related annual bonus - Up to 5%
• Life assurance policy on joining us, 4 x salary
• Wellbeing programme
• Colleague discounts including family discounts on cruises, holidays and insurance
• Range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Grandparents leave
• Income protection
• Access to Saga Academy, our bespoke learning platform

Main Responsibilities

• Be the Subject Matter Expert for Saga’s online quote and buy digital journeys and online self-service account area – leading on the scoping and delivery of optimisation activities and supporting the eCommerce & CRO Manager with wider BAU change stack.
• Utilise your knowledge and experience of Conversion Rate Optimisation to challenge/propose ways that the online customer journey can be improved and optimised, whilst always championing the optimal user experience. Managing the delivery of these improvements from planning, briefing, development, QA and analysis in collaboration with IT teams in a scrum team format.
• Support the planning, delivery and forecasting of the CRO programme, ensuring that deadlines are met and considering all elements of project delivery to mitigate risks/changes throughout the process.
• Be able to manage relationships and communicate with stakeholders across various levels (exec to director) as well as working with external partners, agencies and consultants.
• Leading a project to redesign the health insurance quote engine, ensuring that designs are implemented effectively, overseeing development and testing, and establishing robust reporting to measure performance once the project goes live.
• Actively report on the performance of the online quote and buy digital journeys and online self-service account area into the wider marketing team and collaborate on opportunities to improve core KPIs.
• Providing advice and input into other areas of marketing, campaigns and projects recommending UX/UI/digital experience best practices.

The Ideal Candidate

• Knowledge of the latest digital trends and competitor analysis.
• Experience with Adobe Analytics & A/B testing tools
• Adobe Experience Cloud experience is desirable, but demonstrating experience with other digital experience analysis tools
• Project/ Product management
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
• Proactive mindset, Analytical and strategic thinking
• Use of dev tools in web browsers, working with data layers, and web tools
• Ability to create a strategic test and learn plan.
• Collating and communicating the results of AB testing (MDE, statistical significance)
• Experience running/inputting into a CRO strategic programme
• Experience using analytics tools e.g., Google Analytics
• Working with CRO tools e.g. Adobe Target/Tealium
• Have a working knowledge of HTML/CSS and JS/jQuery

Saga Values: Make it Happen, Do the Right Thing, Customer First, Excellence Every Day, Our People Make Us Special

About The Company

Over the past 70 years we have become the UK's specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. We’re one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic, recognised for its high-quality products and exceptional standards of service. Our product portfolio includes cruises, holidays, insurance, personal finance products and our Saga Magazine.

We aim to be the most-trusted brand for older people in the UK. Our focus on delivering exceptional products and service empowers our colleagues to create moments that are personal and special for our customers and for each other. Our values underpin our approach and help guide us to deliver our purpose.

We’re committed to making sure that colleagues can be their best, be themselves and make a difference – more than anywhere else. We do this by creating a truly inclusive culture, where all colleagues can bring their full and authentic selves to work and be treated with dignity and respect in an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment.

Thanks to our people, Saga has been ranked 6th in the UK’s Best Employers 2025 by the Financial Times and Statista. This recognition, based on the voices of 20,000 employees across the UK, is a testament to the great culture we’ve built together. This award belongs to all our colleagues who collectively make Saga a fantastic place to work.

We are champions of age inclusivity and signatories of the Age-Friendly Employer Pledge, we are proud of our multigenerational teams we have in place. We’re also a committed Disability Confident employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.

Your application will have fair consideration, and you’ll receive personal communication throughout your applicant journey when you apply to join Saga.

For more information on our DEI policies, colleague stories and other opportunities across the business, please visit Jobs and careers with Saga

Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.

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