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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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
Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.
Maintained role evidence
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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E-commerce Assistant clauses and builder inputs
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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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