Junior Merchandiser - Up to £35,000

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