The Future of Digital Roles

#EcomChat on Monday 18th January will discuss “The future of digital roles”.

2015 witnessed a lot of change in ecommerce, for example the rise of paid social and the increased use of marketing automation and data centric planning. This is having an impact on team structures and recruitment policy, as digital teams look for the optimal organisational structure and resource plan to support their business strategy.

The lovely folks at Cranberry Panda (if you don’t know them, they’re specialists in helping clients and candidates fill digital roles) are launching their annual Ecommerce Salary Survey & Insights Report in January (here’s the 2015 report if you’re interested), so we’re teaming up with them to provide insight for the report and to get their perspective on how the digital market is evolving, based on what they’re seeing in the recruitment space.

The chat will discuss how the changing face of digital is impacting team structures, digital roles and resourcing strategy. EcomChat has a great mix of client side, agency, freelance and consultant digital specialists + people with complimentary skills from other departments, so it should be an interesting chat.

As ever: there will be 3 conversation starter questions & anyone is welcome to join in using the #EcomChat hashtag on Twitter.

Here are the 3 questions.

1. Ecommerce is evolving – how is it changing the demand for digital skills?
2. What new skills are becoming important and why?
3. How can companies fill digital skills gaps? E.g. in-house recruitment, outsourced to agencies, training existing staff etc.

We’ll run a poll for each question and share the data afterwards.

Join us and Cranberry Panda at 1pm UK time on Monday and do share this post either on Twitter or via email with anyone you think would be interested.

Thanks, Dan & James.

p.s. If you’re wondering “what’s this about?” there is a page explaining all just here.