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£55,000 London B Corp Join this leading B Corp brand and help make meaningful impact in a purpose-driven organisation. As Senior Merchandiser, you will work in collaboration with some of the largest global retailers, ensuring that relationships are strong, forecasts are accurate and stock requirements are met. Working closely with the in-house delivery team, you will ensure that their stock is delivered on time, in full, and in line with the critical path. This is an analytical and commercial role, where you will look at product performance and lessons learned - feeding this insight into the product development and buying team to help make decisions on existing and upcoming ranges. We are looking for someone with excellent merchandising experience, having worked with, or for, major grocery retailers. You must thrive in a fast-paced role, have a commercial mindset and be team and results focused. Duties of this Senior Merchandiser role include: Working closely with the buyers and merchandisers at the key grocery accounts, building strong relationships with mutual respect and trust. Ensuring customer forecasts are firm and accurate before placing orders with the Buying team, to make sure buying decisions are led/influenced by sales analysis. Downloading customer sales figures, analysing these, and reporting to both internal and external teams - taking swift action as needed. Use your analytical ability to direct the team regarding sales trends to help with bidding for new projects, evolving product offers and driving growth for business. Take ownership of the critical path for your customers, ensuring required delivery dates are met Liaising closely with the factories, ensuring all agreed critical path dates are achieved, Liaising with internal departments e.g. delivery team, as required to ensure timely deliveries to key customers are made with agreed packaging, and to agreed deadlines. The successful Senior Merchandiser will have the following skills/qualities: 4 years' experience within a Merchandising role dealing with volume accounts. Highly analytical and numeric, with a detail-orientated nature. Experience of supplying in to, or working for, a major UK grocery account e.g. Tesco. Highly analytical and numeric, with strong excel skills desirable. A detail-orientated nature and who is able to prioritise workloads. A skilled multi-tasker, with excellent organisational skills who thrives in a fast-paced role. Accurate, flexible, driven, and proactive. An excellent communicator at all levels, both written and verbally, internally and externally. A friendly team player with a positive outlook.
Quest Search & Selection are currently working with a specialist supplier in the fashion and footwear industry. They are looking for a Senior Buyer to join the team. Key responsibilities of this Senior Buyer: Develop the product ranges and presentation according to the agreed product strategy & brand guideline. Use historical data and trends to devise and execute the product strategy for specific areas. Collaborating with external stakeholders to achieve the set sales and margin targets. Collaborate with the sourcing team to formulate and execute a plan for increasing intake margins. Lead the front-end product development strategy. Being involved in sampling, fabric selection, and pricing to meet deadlines for range planning and development. Collaborate with the clients' Design, VM, and Marketing teams to plan and implement effective retail activation. Continuously review product performance and trends to optimise sales and margins Effectively manage, evaluate, and develop the supplier base in areas where necessary. Manage costs in accordance with agreed budgets and established guidelines. Key requirements of this Senior Buyer: Ideally 3 years Buying experience in junior buyer or buyer level from a supplier or retail or fashion background. Ideally have experience in NPD fashion, Accessories or Footwear but other categories will be considered. Has bee involved Far East, Asian and Turkey. Strong communication, presentation and influencing skills are essential. Benefits included for this Senior Buyer: Great Head Office environment (this is an office-based role) Holidays Pension Free Parking If you are interested in this position and you have the relevant experience, please send you cv details today quoting the reference no JO-2403-111329 We request that candidates send their CV as a Microsoft Word document where possible. Quest Search and Selection is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Age UK's shops are the face of the charity. On high streets up and down the country our retail teams deliver a great shopping experience to customers while generating much needed income for the charity, ensuring that we can provide services and support to older people who need it most. If you want to help us to help others, we have the job for you! We are recruiting for a Sales Assistant to join our wonderful Runcorn team and deliver an excellent retail service, ensuring that every customer has a great shopping experience. As a valued Sales Assistant you will contribute towards maximising shop sales and profits as well as the successful day to day running of the shop and deputise for the Shop Manager and Assistant Manager in their absence. The successful candidate will support with sales, stock rotation, organising displays and store tidying and much more, whilst representing Age UK in a professional manner and reflecting our core values. Due to the nature of this role, you will be required to handle/lift bags of stock (up to 10kgs.) PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A 3 MONTH FIXED TERM CONTRACT You will have: Experience in working in a customer facing role Experience of cash handling Ability to lift and carry bags of stock up to 10kg's The ability to work as part of an effective team. Be able to lone work when needed Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as commitment to equal opportunities A flexible approach to work with requirement to work additional days to cover holidays and sickness or participate in trading outside of normal shop hours e.g. shop events What we offer in return: A 14 hour working week 25 days holiday (pro-rata) bank holiday allowance A generous pension - we will contribute 8% Great discounts and rewards through Blue Light Card and BenefitHub Life assurance, Bupa health cashback plan Tickets for Good - Free and discounted tickets for events Additional Information To comply with UK legislation, we cannot accept applications from candidates under the age of 18 as the successful candidate will be required to work on their own in the shop without the aid of other staff. All CVs will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role at Age UK. Please note that our system is unable to anonymise cover letters, and we would therefore ask that to support the work we are doing on making our recruitment selection process fairer and more unbiased, that you remove any personal information from your cover letter/supporting statement, including your name before uploading this. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us once you are invited for an interview. Is this the job for you? We know that men, of all backgrounds, and men and women from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds are currently under-represented in our workforce, and we want to change this! So, we are particularly keen to hear from applicants from these groups. Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time. Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria under the Disability Confident Scheme. Please note that on occasion, due to high numbers of applications, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job. Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.