Assistant Merchandiser

The Company:

An exciting opportunity for an Assistant Merchandiser to join an established, Textiles company with an excellent reputation who offer training and progression opportunities.

• You will support the merchandising team with the production of reports and general administration duties, to improve overall output and efficiencies.
• You will be a proactive individual, with attention to detail, accuracy & customer service. The Merchandise Team is an integral part of the organisation, and you will be an essential part of this team. A good working knowledge of managing supply base, critical paths and meeting strict deadlines are key to performing in this role.
• Working as part of the Merchandise function you will be developing positive and professional working relationships with internal departments, suppliers, customers and key internal stakeholders.

Excellent Benefits Including:

• The company offer a competitive salary and benefit package.
• There is opportunity for pre agreed home working.
• Early finish Friday.
• Hours per week 36.5hrs.
• Pension contribution, Health scheme.
• Staff discount scheme.
• Employee recognition schemes.
• Funded social events.
• Bonus scheme.

Duties Include:

• Weekly update of store orders and till sales, provide internal updates on sales from previous weeks to aid forecasting and decision making.
• Data Input into forecasting system where required; min stocks, missed sales, and maintain system with accurate information.
• Checking critical paths from applicable suppliers.
• Ensuring system is up to date with live docking and booked container dates.
• Ad hoc reports to be set up and/or maintained as per instruction given from merchandisers.
• Place orders with the mill in a timely manner, adhering to lead times given, to ensure that customer delivery requirements are met.
• Regular communication with the supply base including on site/ teams’ meetings where required to maintain expected levels of service.
• Management of the suppliers to ensure that all deliveries arrive at the specified time, being fully aware of any delays or stock shortages. Liaise with customer as and when required.

• Processing invoices received from suppliers; follow up short shipments where applicable.

• Generating weekly report from detail held in Power BI to show service level for each category and support merchandiser with a report on variances from projections.
• Generating purchase orders for all categories where required and sending to suppliers.

• Checking allocation orders from the customer and inputting into system accordingly once reviewed.
• Checking new launch visibility online and work with internal teams and customer to correct where required.
• Liaising with freight forwarders; air freight and sea freight. Reporting requirements where applicable.
• New launch reports set up and maintained where required.
• There may be a requirement to forecast a small number of skus depending on dept needs.

Skills Required:

• Experienced at making decisions independently where necessary and accepting responsibility for those decisions.
• Strong organisational skills to effectively manage multiple deadlines and workload.
• Capacity to adapt to changing priorities and demands.
• To take part in development activities to support the duties of the post or enhance personal development.
• Knowledge of Microsoft word packages particularly Excel, ability to manipulate data and build reports.
• Ability to adapt well to implementation of new systems.
• Experienced in communicating with suppliers, customers, line managers, peer groups and supporting departments through excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to establish, develop and maintain supplier and customer relationships with professionalism.
• To always promote a positive and professional culture across areas of the business.

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Please be aware the duties listed above are an interpretation of the role and do not form any part of your employment contract. Please ask the interviewer any questions about the role that you wish to clarify.

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