We're reshaping the tall fashion landscape. That's a big statement, but one we stand by.
At the heart of everything we do is the unrelenting drive to make things better for our tall customers. We are designers, creators, buyers, engineers, retailers, thinkers and doers. Our people are, quite simply, the best.
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Just a stone's throw from Shoreditch and Spitalfields in the fashion quarter of London's hip Aldgate East is our Head Office, the nerve centre of our operation and the heartbeat of the brand. Consider clothing allowance, Dualit coffee and a seriously social team as standard.
Responsible to: Technical Architect
Company Description:
Long Tall Sally (LTS) is the world's largest fashion retailer for tall women. Our ongoing mission is to be the first choice in tall women’s fashion worldwide. All our clothing is designed in house, carefully proportioned to flatter tall women.
Based in a stunning brand office space in buzzing Aldgate East, the head office of LTS is the creative hub of the brand where fashion design, buying selections, fit sessions and branding decisions are made. It is also crucial in providing the infrastructure and network support to their worldwide stores and online operations.
LTS is a dynamic company that has seen significant international growth over the last 5 years and we continue to expand into new markets. We are an omni-channel retailer, taking orders online, through our call centre and our physical retail stores in locations across Europe and North America. The success we have achieved to date is through the quality of our people, their dedication and passion.
The role:
Our website is the key sales channel for the LTS business and our in-house Web team is responsible for growing and maintaining the platform and infrastructure it runs on. Our current team works on a wide variety of tasks including the following:
- • 3rd party integrations.
- • Apache configuration.
- • Automating deployments.
- • Data cleansing and archival.
- • Environment design improvements.
- • Infrastructure monitoring
- • Improving user journey performance.
- • New promotional functionality.
- • Performance testing and tuning.
- • Security testing and remediation.
- • SEO enhancements.
We are growing our team this year to take on more of the above and larger pieces of work including; a major hybris upgrade, payment and translation integrations, and launching additional translated websites. If you are a seasoned Ecommerce developer, looking for a challenge and a diverse workload, this opportunity is for you…
Duties & Responsibilities of all Developers:
- • Adopting agile processes and methodologies to improve team workflow.
- • Participating in sprint planning meetings:
- – Identifying dependencies
- – Highlighting potential challenges and solutions
- – Evaluating task/story complexity and providing realistic estimates
- • Carrying out new developments and bug fixes for the website
- • Ensuring code standards are in place and followed
- • Improving code quality via code review, automated testing & pair programming as needed
- • Providing testing guidance for all new functionality
- • Demonstrating completed functionality/bugfixes to BAs, QA analysts or stakeholders as needed
- • Providing feedback and suggestions in the team retrospectives to improve team delivery and environment
Required Experience & Skills:
- • A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a computer-related discipline Java & J2EE core API experience with focus on web based projects
- • Ability to think in innovative and creative ways
- • At least 3 years industrial experience gained in any relevant industry sector
- • Development ticketing/lifecycle management tooling experience
- • Excellent communication skills in English; both oral and written
- • Experience of technologies such as Bean Validation, JSTL and REST/SOAP Web Services
- • Exposure to Agile methodologies (RUP, Scrum, TDD, RAD)
- • Logical and methodical approach to problem solving
- • Operates at all times with integrity; adheres to the highest ethical standards in all interactions
- • Spring Framework experience
Desirable Experience & Skills:
- • Hybris Ecommerce platform experience
- • Bitbucket, Confluence and JIRA experience
- • Exposure to JMeter or other performance load testing tools
- • Familiarity with front-end technologies: JavaScript, Bootstrap, jQuery, CSS, SASS etc
- • Object Orientated Design Experience with UML.
- • Hands on configuration of web servers and application containers
- • At least 5 years industrial experience gained in any relevant industry sector
Applications close on 19/07/2018
Please send your CV to:
Are you looking for an exciting and varied marketing role within a fast growing company?
We are currently looking for a Direct Marketing Executive to help oversee the direct mailing strategy to drive retention and customer acquisition, based in Aldgate East. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis, and in return will receive a competitive salary.
Long Tall Sally is a multi-channel retailer of clothing and shoes for tall women. We have stores, websites and catalogues catering for the UK, French, German, EU, US and Canadian markets.
The role
As our Direct Marketing Executive you will work with the Senior Campaign Manager to execute the company's communication strategy across all offline channels to increase customer value, retention and recruitment.
Our Direct Marketing Executive will have the below responsibilities:
- • Implementation of the direct mailing operation on time and on budget
- • Monitor KPI's for the direct marketing activities to optimize campaign profitability.
- • Assisting in executing the company's extensive catalogue mailing programme (75 mailings per annum across 6 countries) including management of all key suppliers and stakeholders including printers, mailing house and internal creative teams
- • Briefing data agencies, printers and mailing house on all direct marketing campaigns
- • Coordinating and liaising with internal teams to ensure the timely delivery of artwork to suppliers within deadlines
- • Supporting the Senior Campaign Manager with the selection of data and the preparation of mailing plans
- • Briefing and cross checking amends to copy and artwork
- • Making sure that all the artwork for direct mailings is compliant with the company's brand identity
- • Proof reading and checking artwork (spelling, offers, terms & conditions)
- • Approving artwork and personalization of each direct mailing
- • Monitor and maintain a record of tests and their performance to optimise decision-making
- •Analysing and reporting on campaign performance
- • Marketing or business degree (desirable but not essential)
- • At least 2 years of direct mailing experience/experience in a similar role
- • Project management skills - prioritising multiple deadlines to ensure they are met
- • Structural and logical way of thinking
- • Strong communication skills.
- • Excellent attention to details
- • Strong communication skills
- • Ability to work alone as well as part of a team
- • Driven, self-motivated with lots of initiative
- • Computer literate - Microsoft excel, word, PowerPoint
- • 25 days Holiday + bank holidays
- • Staff Discount: 50%
- • Pension: 3% Employee, 2% Employer NEST contribution, after 3 months
- • Free Breakfasts
- • Death in Service: x2 salary
- • Refer a Friend Bonus
- • Season Ticket Loan
- • Childcare Vouchers
- • Eyecare/Spectacle Vouchers
- • Cycle to Work Scheme
- • Perkbox
- • Sample Sales
- • Christmas & Summer Parties
- • Summer Hours: Finish at 4pm every Friday throughout July & August
- • Discounted Yoga Classes
- • Running Club &Cinema Club
If you think you have what it takes to be our Direct Marketing Executive and have the required skills and experience, then we want to hear from you email [email protected] with your CV.
Reporting to: International Marketing Manager
Are you looking for an exciting and varied marketing role within a fast growing company?
We are currently looking for a Marketing Executive to help oversee our German market, based in Aldgate East. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis, and in return will receive a competitive salary.
Long Tall Sally is a multi-channel retailer of clothing and shoes for tall women. We have stores, websites and catalogues catering for the UK, French, German, EU, US and Canadian markets.
At LTS we’re a team of thinks and doers. We work hard, we play hard and we bake a lot of cakes.
The Team:
The International marketing team are responsible for managing and developing the growing international markets at Long Tall Sally including; Germany, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and EU.
The Marketing Executive will be responsible for the German market, working alongside the International Marketing Manager and play a key role in nurturing current and identifying new marketing opportunities in the region.
Key responsibilities:
- • Working with the International Marketing Manager to execute the multi-channel communication strategy across all on and offline channels.
- • Provide German translations and proof reading for all customer communications; direct mailings, website, email and social media.
- • Email Marketing; translations, scheduling campaigns, analyzing email performance and making recommendations on improvements.
- • Implement schedules according to the marketing plan and ensuring deadlines are met.
- • Executing the digital strategy for the German market; PPC, Shopping, Affiliates, Social Media and SEO
- • o Keyword research, optimisation of copy and setting up landing pages.
- • Indentifying local marketing opportunities inc. key dates for social activity and promotions.
- • Assisting with marketing reporting for the German market.
- • Running market research and competitor analysis.
- • General admin tasks for the department.
- • Native German speaker is essential
- • Min. of 1 year experience in digital marketing (PPC, SEO and Social etc.)
- • Experience with Copywriting or Proofreading
- • Attention to detail is essential
- • Basic Microsoft excel knowledge
- • Confident team player, comfortable working with other departments and agencies
- • Ability to work independently, balance priorities and take initiatives
Please send your CV to: [email protected]
Long Tall Sally (LTS) is the world's largest fashion retailer for tall women. Our ongoing mission is to be the first choice in tall women’s fashion worldwide. All our clothing is designed in house, carefully proportioned to flatter tall women.
Based in buzzing Aldgate East, the Head Office of LTS is the creative hub of the brand where fashion design, buying selections, fit sessions and branding decisions are made.
LTS is a dynamic company that has seen significant international growth over the last 5 years and we continue to expand into new markets. We are an omni-channel retailer, taking orders online, through our call centre and our physical retail stores in locations across Europe and North America. The success we have achieved to date is through the quality of our people, their dedication and passion.
At LTS, we’re a team of thinkers and doers. We work hard, we play hard and we bake a lot of cakes.
About the team:
Headed up by Natalie (Nats), the 11-strong Merchandising team play a key role in maximising Long Tall Sally’s profitability by predicting and monitoring sales trends and accurately controlling stock levels. The Merch team love a spreadsheet and are meticulously organised.
The role:
- • Responsible for assisting the Senior Merchandiser in the day to day running of the Merchandising department.
- • Managing commitment to ensure on time delivery through working with the Buying teams and liaising with the Warehouse.
- • Liaising directly with the Marketing team to ensure stock availability for launch.
- • WSSI updating and management.
- • Line card management. Responsibility to ensure that all key lines are fully stocked in all markets.
- • Forecasting sales and stock level to achieve sales plans and margin/profit for the category.
- • Working alongside the Senior Merchandiser and agreeing the strategy and targets for the category.
- • Executing markdown strategy.
- • Manage and Develop a Merchandising Admin Assistant – overseeing the allocation process.
- • Analyse sales patterns, trends and history. Make commercial suggestions to influence future buys.
- • Commercial awareness and understanding of the market.
- • A genuine interest in retail and LTS sector of the market.
- • A genuine interest in retail and LTS sector of the market.
- • Proactive and positive approach to problem solving.
- • Strong communication skills.
- • A methodical / logical approach.
- • Ability to handle heavy workloads and prioritise tasks.
- • A flexible approach with an ability to take initiative and respond to changing priorities.
- • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Please send your CV to:
Freelance (approximately 2-3 hrs per week) c. £20 per hour.
We are currently looking for a Greater London based customer who is a good size UK 7 to be available for fit sessions every Thursday at our Head office in Aldgate East.
JOB DESCRIPTIONThe role would involve putting shoes on for the Footwear Buyer and Technologist to assess the fit.
Requirements:
Accurate UK size 7 foot measurements as below:
• Foot length: 254mm
• Joint Circumference: 246mm
• Instep Circumference: 238mm
• Professional manner, punctual
• Well presented
• Flexible - available during the working week, usually Thursday afternoons
• Patient - required to stand for long periods of time.
Please contact
Nathan Vitolo Footwear Technologist
Long Tall Sally 3rd Floor 25 Camperdown Street
London E1 8DZ
Freelance (approximately 1 DAY a month) c. £30 per hour.
We are currently looking for a Greater London based customer who is a good size UK 18 to be available for fit occasionally at our Head office in Aldgate East. ( 1 day a month to be decided) The role would involve putting clothes on for the Buyer and Technologist to assess the fit.
Requirements:
Accurate UK size 18 measurements as below:
•Chest 107cm
•Waist 90cm
•Hips 117cm
•Approx. Height 6ft
•Professional manner, punctual
• Patient - required to stand for long periods of time.
•Well presented
•Flexible - available during the working week.
Please contact
Amy Philpott
Long Tall Sally 3rd Floor 25 Camperdown Street
London E1 8DZ
Please note this role does not typically involve marketing or advertising photo sessions
Freelance (approximately 1 DAY per week) c. £30 per hour.
We are currently looking for a Greater London based customer who is a good size UK 12 to be available for fit sessions every week at our Head office in Aldgate East. The role would involve putting clothes on for the Buyer and Technologist to assess the fit.
Requirements:
Accurate UK size 12 measurements as below:
•Chest 91cm
•Waist 74cm
•Hips 100cm
•Approx. Height 6ft
•Professional manner, punctual
• Patient - required to stand for long periods of time.
•Well presented
•Flexible - available during the working week.
Please contact
Amy Philpott
Long Tall Sally 3rd Floor 25 Camperdown Street
London E1 8DZ
Please note this role does not typically involve marketing or advertising photo sessions
Our store managers are often looking for sales consultants to join the team on a full-time, part-time, temporary or job share basis.
Training will be given on all aspects of the business and there are excellent opportunities for personal development.
We offer competitive rates of pay, discounts on all merchandise, a generous clothing allowance and a bonus scheme.
Please send your CV to:
Headed up by the larger-than-life Pablo, our Customer Services team is a remarkable thing. Why? Because many of our colleagues have over 20 years’ of service under their belt. And with swish new office space, our Customer Service team is one of the best in the retail business.