Position Snapshot

Business Area: Nespresso
Job title: Front-End Developer (12-month FTC – September 2025 start)
Location: Gatwick – Hybrid working

Salary up to £55,000 depending on experience + potential bonus + car allowance + generous pension scheme + 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement + 2 paid volunteering days + other fantastic benefits!

Position Summary

Nespresso are recruiting for a talented eCommerce professional to join their team as an eCommerce Front-End Developer where your key responsibilities will be identifying, coordinating, and addressing untapped opportunities in the end-to-end customer journey. This role involves translating commercial and communications objectives into cost-effective and data-driven web and mobile solutions through the creative use of technology and user experience principles. You will contribute to the planning and execution of global campaigns, oversee the development and execution of landing pages, and ensure the timely and high-quality delivery of digital content to end consumers.
 

A little bit about us
We are the Nestlé Nespresso SA Company and are proud to be one of the fastest growing operating unit of Nestlé. Our passionate, entrepreneurial-minded team has transformed Nespresso into the reference in portioned coffee and one of the world’s most trusted brands. Our growth comes from our commitment to research and development in order to pioneer and be the reference in the portioned coffee sector to provide the very highest quality coffees that could be enjoyed in the comfort of consumers' own homes and also savoured at out-of-home locations, such as restaurants, hotels, offices and luxury retail businesses. We guarantee quality by taking a careful, thoughtful approach in how we source our ingredients, produce and market our premium coffee products. With corporate headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, Nespresso is present in over 60 countries and counts over 12,000 employees worldwide. To learn more visit www.nespresso.com.

A day in the life of an Front-End Developer ...
As an Front-End Developer at Nespresso, you will play a key role in driving eCommerce digital innovation and leveraging web design principles, technical capabilities, consumer behaviour, and operational processes to develop and drive website strategies. You will be responsible for translating commercial, UX and UI objectives into functional web applications and features through HTML5. CSS3 and JavaScript (including some JavaScript libraries) according to the Nespresso brand guidelines.

Your responsibilities will also include: 

• Contribute to the operations roadmap in collaboration with the eCommerce Manager to define digital vision, objectives & strategy
• Contribute to the definition of global campaigns and permanent content, oversee transversal global planning with all stakeholders, development and execution of landing pages to increase qualified visits, acquisition, conversion, retention and ensure quality & timely execution of digital content to end consumers
• Help lead eCommerce digital innovation by bolstering operational efficiency through automation and process
• Leverage understanding of web design principles, technical capabilities, consumer behaviour, and operational processes to develop and drive website strategies to increase conversion, improve customer experience and load time optimization.
• Lead the delivery of digital projects, leveraging and supporting external agencies where appropriate to ensure timely delivery and quality of digital assets while aligning closely with technical & brand guidelines.
• Deliver high quality, maintainable code and build re-usable UI components
• Implement and work with code versioning systems (Git), automated browser testing and debugging
• Participate in the planning of yearly digital content activities via B2C Marketing, Commercial, Social & Brand roadmaps
• Lead the development of fully responsive and WCAG 2 compliant campaign landing pages, ensuring that campaign assets are delivered in adherence with global digital, technical, commercial & brand content guidelines
• Influence the campaign design process to ensure commercial needs are met and executed in a timely manner
• Contribute to the planning of annual campaign roadmap, anticipate annual planning and assess relevant technologies available to support ecommerce ambitions
• Conduct cross-browser compatibility testing 

What will make you successful?
The ideal candidate will have a track record for developing web applications and features from the ground up. In this role, you must be able to influence across multiple company organisations, be an exceptionally strong communicator and analytical thinker and have a history of delivering results. You will have experience delivering customer-facing, web-based products that reach millions of users, worldwide. You will also have solved complicated problems with elegant, simple solutions with the following minimum technical competencies and knowledge:

Technical Skills: 

• Proficiency in:
• HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript; 
• Server-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Advanced JavaScript frameworks (such as ReactJS, VueJS, AngularJS, etc) is preferred
• Code versioning systems, including Git
• Traditional and headless CMSs, including Hybris and Drupal
• Front-end CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap
• Responsive design, cross-browser and cross-device compatibility testing
• Working with APIs
• Asynchronous request handling, partial page updates and AJAX

Knowledge and Experience:

• Previous experience as a Web Developer and a proven track record in large ecommerce management
• Knowledge of full stack web development a plus
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Creative flair and good sense of how visual elements fit together
• Up to date knowledge in all web technology and digital innovation trends
• Accuracy, reliability and attention to detail
• Strong background mobile design
• Understanding of UI, UX and front-end development principles and how these fit together
• Experience in content management and template development
• Good understanding of SEO principles
• Ideally – but not essential – experience with Agile development frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)
• Ideally – but not essential – experience with graphic design applications (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop)
• Knowledge of server-side CSS pre-processors such as Sass or Less is a plus

Join us and be part of a dynamic and innovative team that is shaping the future of eCommerce at Nespresso.

What you need to know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The Job advert closing date is 13/05/2025

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers.  That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process.  Be yourself, everyone else is taken!