Opportunities abound for operational and online marketers as online sales continue to grow, according to retail recruiters.

Findings from Verdict Research shows that e-tail sales are set to grow by 13.3%.

Steve Walters, managing director at Faces Bespoke Retail Recruitment Consultancy, told Recruiter that operations skills are transferable from the high street to online.

“There are lots of roles that are the same as in the high street. You don’t need to be an e-tailer. Operations people can move online with their experience of managing people. That is going to create jobs for people who are predominantly high street but can transfer their skills to online.”

Stefan Brown, retail manager at ROC Recruitment, adds: “We do get quite a lot of roles with online marketers. More stores on the high street have their own website so they already have those people in there.”