About the role.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Junior Assortment Planner (Merchandising) to join The Very Group (across Fashion, Sports and Home). You’ll report directly into the Merchandiser for the area so lots of opportunity to further develop your skills.
Day to day you will be meeting and handling supplier and brand relationships, working closely with the buying and wider merchandising teams to develop commercial range plans suited to our customer. Analysing historical performance, market trends and competitor ranges to help create the best future plans.
We’re looking for someone who is highly motivated, great attention to detail, has strong commercial acumen and a passion for data and analysis. The ideal candidate will have experience working already as a Junior Merchandiser or an established Assistant Merchandiser who is ready for the next level.
Key Responsibilities-
1. Responsible for full ownership of planning with support from the Merchandiser
2. Ensuring the departmental framework commercialises the product strategy & that business KPI’s are delivered.
3. Driving the department vision & strategy forward in partnership with Buying & Merch Financial Planning
4. Capturing & reviewing lessons learnt, providing updates to senior management.
5. Working alongside buying to place both future & in season buys
6. Developing strong relationships & ways of working with brands/suppliers.
7. Support to develop current systems & processes to ensure best practise.
8. Line manager responsibility for one or more Assistant Merchandiser
9. Deputise for the Merchandiser as and when required
About you.
We know that our expectations are high, as are our ambitions as a business, so we are aware that one candidate will not have all of the below experience.
The ideal candidate will have/be:
10. A retail professional with Merchandising experience.
11. Good knowledge of excel.
12. Strong with numbers – able to produce, analyse and articulate findings from reports.
13. Attention to detail.
14. Ability to establish relationships, internal & external - working cross functionally and collaboratively.
15. Desire to understand the Very customer.
16. Problem solving/critical thinking.
17. Decision making skills.
18. Ability to prioritise and manage workload.
19. A great attitude and who is willing to learn.
Some of our benefits.
20. Flexible, hybrid working model
21. Inclusive culture and environment, check out our Glassdoor reviews
22. £1,000 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
23. 30 days holiday + bank holidays
24. Udemy learning access
25. Bonus potential (performance and business-related)
26. Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk
27. Matched pension up to 6%
28. More benefits can be found on our career site
How to apply
Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly, and if successful in securing this role, you will be required to undertake a credit, CIFAS, Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need to disclose in relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken, including any unspent criminal convictions.