Your new role
DFS Group is hiring a Merchandiser for the home category, responsible for ensuring timely stock delivery to meet sales and launch targets while maintaining cost efficiency. The role involves managing stock forecasts, optimising product ranges, and collaborating with buyers to drive performance across all channels. Key duties include data analysis for better buying decisions, planning sales activities, and coordinating with finance to set budgets. The ideal candidate is analytical, customer-focused, and adaptable, with strong communication and strategic planning skills, ready to thrive in a fast-paced retail environment.
What you'll be doing
1. Accountable for all aspects of stock management, ensuring stock delivered on time to achieve sales, launch targets and customer availability in a cost-effective way.
2. Accountable for managing the home category critical path to ensure optimum delivery of stock.
3. Accountable for delivering the category plan in line with the strategy (Sales, Total Stock, Intake, Commitment, Customer Availability, Pricing, Markdown, Margin, Number of Skus for all Channels).
4. Responsible for providing data to inform better buying decisions including regular reporting on key KPIs as part of commercial teams weekly reporting.
5. Accountable for stocks and sales forecasting, challenging team to mitigate risks and maximise opportunities.
6. Working in conjunction with the buyers to deliver a commercial and cohesive range in line with plan.
7. Responsible for planning sale activity, ensuring this is managed in line with marketing strategy and meets profit targets.
8. Work with the buyers to optimise performance, distribution and ranging across all channels.
9. Responsible for working with the buying team and finance team to establish clear ways of working with roles and responsibilities clearly defined.
10. Responsible for clear communication of stock related information and stakeholder management across the business.
The role is for you if...
11. In depth knowledge of the processes and systems required to support the setting and monitoring of forecasts, stock plans and budgets for sales and profit
12. Strong interpersonal skills and a good team player with the ability to communicate and work cross functionally at all levels of the business.
13. Strong numerical and analytical skills to optimise trading performance.
14. Excellent influencing skills.
15. Puts customer first and has a passion for exceeding expectations.
16. Positive attitude and adaptable to constantly changing retail environment
17. Strong strategic planning and organisational skills
18. Demonstrate professional integrity by supporting changes and decisions that move the business forward.
About DFS
It takes a whole lot of passion to be at the centre of what makes a house feel like home and thats just what we do at DFS. Were the leading sofa retail specialist in the UK, helping people find a comfy seat on great quality sofas since 1969.
We're a market leader in the UK because of one thing: our people. Our people made us who we are and will drive us into our ambitious future, together. We offer incredible opportunities to get stuck into fun and meaningful work as well as learn new skills so you can really find your thing.
Are you ready to make yourself at DFS?
DFS Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer; celebrating diversity and committed to a culture of inclusion and belonging. We extend a warm welcome to everyone, embracing a variety of voices and perspectives. As we continue to work on building a workplace that is representative of the customers we serve and the communities we live and work in, we strongly encourage applications from members of minority and under-represented groups. Across the Group, we want to create an environment where everyone feels at home.
DFS Benefits
19. Excellent salary + benefits package
20. Progression and Development opportunities to grow your skills
21. A huge 30% colleague discount, plus 15% friends & family discount across our Group (DFS, Sofology, Dwell)
22. Generous holiday allowance
23. Access to a range of high street & online discounts from: Sainsburys, ASOS, Currys PC World, IKEA, John Lewis and more.
24. Discounted Gym and Cinema memberships to help you unwind
25. Group Pension Scheme
26. Life Assurance & Company Sick Pay
27. Full comprehensive training
28. Paid days to volunteer each year