Merchandiser

Salary: £38,400 – £45,600 per year

Our client, a technical distributor based on the outskirts of Marlow, is seeking a Merchandiser to be responsible for planning and raising stock in line with seasonality and liaising with suppliers and brands across the business to maintain optimum stock levels.

You will be working closely with buying counterparts to ensure the department strategy is achieved.

Duties of the role will include:

• Working closely with the Head of Department to develop/implement joint business plans in line with department strategy

• Working with the key brands to ensure accurate forecasting for promotional periods and new launches throughout the year

• Working with the team to review weekly trading performance on KPIs and to identify any issues and opportunities to respond to weekly trading conditions

• Managing/driving customer availability in all channels, ensuring forecasted demand represents a true forward view of customer requirements

• Managing an assortment of high strategic importance and/or complexity within your category that achieves strong customer satisfaction

• Working cross functionally to allocate the stock to the correct channels in a quick and organised manner

• Establishing effective relationships with key brands and stakeholders to influence stock allocation and availability, encouraging growth with our key suppliers and the delivery of the category plans

• Ensuring agreed levels of good, better and best products are bought in line with the department strategy

• Liaising with global suppliers and sourcing offices to identify the most cost-effective sourcing routes

• Running sales and stock reports, providing evidence-based analysis to back up key strategies

• Raising/managing purchase orders in line with budget

• Liaising with stores, customer services and marketing to provide an overview of key promotions and intake

The successful candidate will possess the following skills:

• Proven track record and recent comparable experience in a merchandising role, in an omnichannel environment

• Technical knowledge/experience of merchandising and replenishment systems

• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-moving dynamic retail environment

• Confidence to influence and engage at all levels

• Product and market knowledge within a retail environment, with a customer focus

• Strong commercial, analytical, problem solving and communication skills