One of UK’s fastest growing online menswear brands
Central Manchester –
Full time head office based
Our client is one of the UK’s fastest growing online menswear brands looking for an experienced online Merchandiser to join their team. This role is full time and head office based.
Brief Job Description
As a Merchandiser, you will be responsible for all stock management across the web channels, retail stores, and wholesale partners. You will own the stock file, ensuring it is prepared for key sale periods, and manage the WSSI ahead of quarterly buying periods. You will oversee an assistant merchandiser across the brand's wholesale and another assistant merchandiser across all brands (DTC & Retail), who principally focuses on their Fashion brands. Day-to-day stock management will be your principal responsibility.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
1. Monitor key trading tasks such as stock outs, restock opportunities, fragmentation, and slow movers.
2. Take ownership of our new merchandising portal, the WSSI, and our Range Plans.
3. Actively manage store stock, including managing the initial range, replenishment, and seasonal stock injections.
4. Ensure collaboration with the e-Commerce and Marketing teams for product recommendations, upselling/cross-selling opportunities, and visual search and content improvements based on stock/rate of sale.
5. Run weekly trade meetings with insights gathered from trading the file at a category level, providing overviews to key stakeholders on our stock position and trading performance at a product/category/gender/brand level.
6. Grade our stock file based on rate of sale and seasonal relevance on an A/B/C scale, ensuring attribution is accurate for decisions on stock grading.
7. Manage key markdown periods with the Head of Merchandising and Head of Brand to ensure an acceptable level of cover across the categories.
8. Help manage the DTC and store buys for the brand to hit revenue and margin forecasts set by the Head of Brand and Head of Merchandising.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Industries
Staffing and Recruiting
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