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Retail E-commerce Assistant Employment Contract UK

Define accurate day-to-day online merchandising and order support, with clear approval for price, product and promotional changes.

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Working hours

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When to use this contract

Produce accurate current online product content, produce timely order and website administration, and deliver documented publishing checks and exceptions.

Workplace context: Trading premises.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering website systems and publishing rights. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering product accuracy and approval workflow. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering customer and order data access. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering peak campaigns and remote working. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering company policies.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The assistant may publish approved content and routine corrections. They cannot invent product claims, change prices, override stock, issue exceptional refunds or use customer data outside delegated systems and purposes. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

What to prepare before you issue it

  • the sites brands and product categories supported
  • the CMS order and product systems
  • the publishing price and promotion permissions
  • the image copy and supplier-content sources
  • the customer-data and refund limits
  • the peak-trading and incident coverage

Day-to-day operating brief

What E-commerce Assistant work looks like in practice

A retail E-commerce Assistant maintains product pages, checks website content, supports online orders and coordinates with trading, warehouse and customer-service teams. Small publishing errors can misstate price, availability or product features at scale. Contract terms should specify content and system access, approval limits, image and copy rights, customer-data boundaries, peak-trading work and the incident process for incorrect listings or failed orders.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

  • Create and update approved online product listings.
  • Upload authorised images copy and attributes.
  • Check prices promotions stock and links.
  • Support order and fulfilment exception administration.
  • Maintain accurate category and search tagging.
  • Report website content or system failures promptly.

A realistic working scenario

A supplier spreadsheet conflicts with the live product dimensions and customers have started returning the item. The assistant stops copying the feed, records affected SKUs and asks the authorised product owner to verify source information before correction.

Outputs to agree

  • accurate current online product content
  • timely order and website administration
  • documented publishing checks and exceptions

Records and evidence

  • SKU content source and version.
  • Price promotion and publishing approval.
  • Order exception and team handover.
  • Website check error and correction.
  • Work records.
  • Handover notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Line Manager or Department Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

  • The assistant may publish approved content and routine corrections. They cannot invent product claims, change prices, override stock, issue exceptional refunds or use customer data outside delegated systems and purposes.
  • Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

  • EPOS.
  • Stock systems.
  • Card terminals.

Workplace context

  • Trading premises.

Contract priorities

  • website systems and publishing rights
  • product accuracy and approval workflow
  • customer and order data access
  • peak campaigns and remote working

Information the employer should prepare

  • the sites brands and product categories supported
  • the CMS order and product systems
  • the publishing price and promotion permissions
  • the image copy and supplier-content sources
  • the customer-data and refund limits
  • the peak-trading and incident coverage

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The facts this E-commerce Assistant contract is built around

These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for wholesale & retail work.

Work setting

Trading premises.

Primary duties

  • Create and update approved online product listings.
  • Upload authorised images copy and attributes.
  • Check prices promotions stock and links.
  • Support order and fulfilment exception administration.

Tools and training to confirm

  • EPOS.
  • Stock systems.
  • Card terminals.

Governance focus

Employer procedures and role controls. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering website systems and publishing rights. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering product accuracy and approval workflow. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering customer and order data access.

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Role wording

E-commerce Assistant duties

Produce accurate current online product content, produce timely order and website administration, and deliver documented publishing checks and exceptions.

Create and update approved online product listings. Upload authorised images copy and attributes. Check prices promotions stock and links. Support order and fulfilment exception administration. Maintain accurate category and search tagging.

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What is added to the finished contract

The assistant may publish approved content and routine corrections. They cannot invent product claims, change prices, override stock, issue exceptional refunds or use customer data outside delegated systems and purposes.

Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering website systems and publishing rights.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering product accuracy and approval workflow.

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Frequently asked questions

Can an E-commerce Assistant change online prices?

Only through the approved pricing workflow and within delegated permissions, with effective dates and source evidence recorded.

Who checks supplier product claims before publication?

The authorised product or compliance owner should verify material claims; the assistant should not infer missing evidence.

May supplier images be uploaded automatically?

Only where usage rights, product match, quality and the retailer's content standards have been confirmed.

What happens after a product-page error is found?

Record affected SKUs and exposure, pause or correct under authority and notify teams handling orders and customer remedies.

Can the assistant access full customer payment details?

Access should be limited to the retailer's secure tools and the minimum information needed for assigned order work.

How should discontinued products be handled online?

Follow the retailer's hide, redirect, substitute and retention rules while preserving order history and required product information.

Can weekend website checks be required?

Yes where the rota, response expectations, remote access, payment or time arrangements and escalation contacts are stated.

Who owns product copy written in the role?

Employment-created copy normally belongs to the employer under the contract, subject to licensed source material and attribution rules.

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