Role Title
Merchandiser
Up to £25k
South Manchester
Role Profile
Our client, a leading clothing supplier, is looking to appoint a Merchandiser to join their down to earth, friendly and growing team based in South Manchester. Reporting into the Category Manager, you will assist in delivering sales and margin targets for your chosen categories, driving revenue growth and maintaining a well-balanced stock file. You will take ownership of your category sales and margin forecasting/budgets ensuring category level forecasts are accurately allocated down to style and SKU level. You will be an energetic and switched on individual, currently working at Merchandise Assistant/ Assistant Merchandiser level within an online fashion retailer, supporting a Buyer to develop ranges. This is a brilliant opportunity for a driven and enthusiastic individual to join an established business who pride themselves on the long-standing relationships they have with customers across the high street and with some of the world's biggest brands. Going through an exciting period of change and growth, the business has recently moved into brand new offices and you will have the opportunity to drive forward your own progression as the business continues to expand.
Key Responsibilities
- Build product category sales and margin budgets that are aligned to the divisional sales budgets
- Develop KPI reports such as a product category trading report, stock availability report and hit rate reports
- Provide objective sales and margin insight to the Category Manager for all new range builds
- Manage and develop a quarterly product level forecasting process in close collaboration with the Supply Chain team
- Develop, maintain and effectively execute critical paths for all new range launches
- Proactively manage your stock file driving clearance of high cover styles and maintain stock availability on bestselling styles
- Monitor and review category sales and margin performance
- Communicate daily, weekly and monthly performance against KPIs, (sales, margin, availability, stock cover)
- Attend and contribute to the weekly new product development / critical path meetings
- Identify potential out of stocks and proactively take the appropriate actions to mitigate these out of stocks
- Complete category sales and margin performance reviews for each new range development
- Identify seasonal trends in your categories and plan stock build to maximise the sales potential of each category
- Measure and communicate the performance of new product launches
Skills & Experience
- Currently working for an online fashion retailer, supporting a buyer to develop a range, in an entry level or above merchandising role
- Self-motivated, resilient and tenacious with a strong work ethic and eagerness to learn
- Highly organised with excellent time management skills
- Commercially astute balanced with creativity
- Solutions focused with ability to think on feet
- Strong Excel skills
- Enthusiastic and driven
- A problem solver prepared to make decisions
- Confident in sharing ideas, persuasive and influential
- Open to change and adaptable and innovative
- Enjoys working as part of a team as well as on own initiative
- Excellent communicator able to build strong working relationships
Client information
Our client is a leading clothing supplier based in South Manchester
Remuneration
Up to £25k depending on experience
About Cast UK
Cast UK is a leading executive consultancy, providing national recruitment solutions to both clients and candidates. Specialising in HR, Procurement, Buying, Supply Chain, and Logistics, each member of our specialist team has a professional background specific to their recruiting sector. With this unique insight and knowledge, our consultants are able to place individuals from trainee through to main board. For more information on Cast UK and a complete list of all of our current vacancies, please visit www.castuk.com
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