Stock Management Responsibilities:
- Manage stock to meet multiple supplier lead time demands, ensuring stock KPI targets are met to achieve 100% availability to demand.
- Analyze customer forecasts and sales information weekly, monthly, and year-over-year to assist effective planning.
- Work effectively with internal stakeholders, ensuring cohesion between sales, merchandising, production, and warehouse.
- Actively monitor sales forecasts and performances, reacting and communicating to the customer and channels team on issues for effective resolution.
- Use Excel spreadsheets extensively to provide accurate data including:
1. Maintaining both Customer and internal Sales performance vs forecast vs stock reports.
2. Planning stock purchase demands and warehouse intake schedules.
3. Stock status reporting, communicating all over stocks and clearance lines to the sales teams to prompt targeted promotional activity.
4. Continuously monitor sales run rate performance in line with stock availability to maintain targeted weeks cover.
5. Manage stocks to ensure targeted stock availability is achieved while keeping stock levels at optimum levels for the business.
6. Forward planning of demand across seasonality ranges to effectively plan factory capacity demands.
7. Effective range planning alongside the sales team, maintaining accurate stock records on Excel.
8. Maximize turnover on all ranges as well as promotional periods through close monitoring of customer demands and forecasting requirements.
Profile:
- Strong analytic background in stock management and control.
- Ideally an Assistant Merchandiser, Senior Assistant Merchandiser, Junior Merchandiser, or similar.
- Advanced Excel skills, including VLOOKUP and Pivot tables.
- Experience in merchandise planning in a fast-moving supply chain environment.
- Ability to analyze data and use it to drive action.
- Pro-active and organized.
- Flexible team player who is willing to 'muck in' when needed.
- Numerate with attention to detail and excellent analytical skills.
- Ability to work to strict deadlines to meet customer requirements.
- Professional approach, with confidence to represent the company.
Job Offer:
- Hybrid working: 3 office days, 2 days working from home.
- 23 days holiday, rising to 25 over 2 years.
- Free car parking.
- Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm.
- Discount on products.
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