Junior Merchandiser - Up to £34,000
This is an amazing opportunity to join a successful retail business as a Junior Merchandiser. If you would like the opportunity to bring your numerical and analytical skills to a place where you can make your mark and develop your career, then this could be the right opportunity for you.
This is a perfect role for an experienced Assistant Merchandiser who is looking for their next step-up in their merchandising career. Likewise, it would also suit an existing Junior Merchandiser who is seeking a new challenge with a successful merchandising team.
This is what you'll do:
- Help to plan and develop Merchandising strategies that balance customer expectation & profitability.
- Support with implementing new procedures and processes alongside the Senior Merchandising Team.
- Partake in the analysis & reporting of current sales data, customers' reactions and channel trends in order to anticipate product needs and plan future ranges & stock.
- Help build & maintain a comprehensive library of historical data.
- Work to key performance indicators, helping to optimise the sales volume and profitability of designated product areas according to the business plan.
- Pro-active involvement with planning future ranges in conjunction with wider product team.
- Actively involved with the monitoring of slow sellers & proposal of price reductions as necessary including the roll-up of mid and end-of-season sale plans.
- Work collaboratively with the team helping to monitor stock movement and help propose intake re-phasing as necessary based on the forward seasonal plan.
- Collaboratively work with the wider Merchandising, Operations & Logistics teams to ensure timely onboarding & arrival of stock with our various partners.
- Set the department strategy and option framework to ensure a balanced and commercial product range.
- Support the Merchandiser on maintaining department WSSIs, stock and sales plans, ensuring stock is managed to targets.
- Take full ownership of departmental line cards, re-forecasting on a monthly basis and building out future sales plans.
- Proactively analyse sales data and trends and use data to influence decisions in buying meetings.
- Proactively monitor sales and stock in order to take action to optimise sales and margin performance - ensuring team react to sales trend.
- Manage order placement and intake to ensure on time product launches and awareness of product lead times, to maximise trading opportunities.
- Maintain strong relationships with suppliers to enable flexibility and trading.
- Take full ownership of critical paths and communicate key issues to the wider team.
Who we're looking for:
- Experience either as an Assistant Merchandiser, Junior Merchandiser or similar
- Analytical skills - confident in working with and extracting insight from data.
- Detail orientated with a keen eye for detail and accuracy.
- You'll enjoy working both as part of a team as well as being self-motivated.
- Flexible and open to change as the business grows.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Strong computer literacy skills- especially in Excel
If this opportunity sounds like it's the right one for you, then apply today.
Junior Merchandiser / Assistant Merchandiser / Senior Assistant Merchandiser / Leeds / Sheffield / Manchester / Yorkshire / York / Morley / Headingley / Harrogate / Pudsey / Bradford / Huddersfield / Rochdale / Halifax / Rothwell / Morley / Batley / Birstall / /Wakefield / Barnsley / Dewsbury / Wetherby