Description
We are hiring a Merchandiser to join our successful Merchandise department. You will have the opportunity to have an impact on the commercial opportunities across our stores, websites and ultimately help drive the business.
The role is varied and will include:
- Partnering with our Merchandising Manager to create a topline quarterly / seasonal strategy
- Historical analysis, planning and forecasting
- Create and Collate Company Quarterly Range Plans in conjunction with Buying
- Maintain Weekly Stock, Sales and Intake
- Build and maintain relationships with strategic brand partners
- Regular store visits to develop regional understanding and an omnichannel view
- Liaising with the wider stakeholder network to improve and drive best practices
- Responsible for mentoring and developing Junior members of the team with regular one to ones and review meetings
- Acting as a key contact for Merchandise reporting and all aspects of merchandising processes and system use
The Teams
The Merchandise team is an extended family split into departments, you will get to know the wider team but also across the departments. The departments are split to focus down on certain areas such as Apparel, Footwear and Accessories, DTC, Wholesale and SEVENSTORE. You will have the chance to work across branded suppliers and own brand supply chain. Within each department you will have the opportunity to make decisions influencing sell through, following through strategic plans and effecting profitability.
We drive personal development and provide all the tools to help you feel empowered. There are many examples of people who have joined the team and progressed quickly. We invest in our training and development and this role will be no different. Our aim is to help create an environment where you can achieve, progress, and grow, in addition to supporting, training, and mentoring the junior team, celebrating progression and success.
About You
We love people with passion. It can be with fashion, it can be with something else but we want to help utilise that passion in to your career. We encourage people to defy the ordinary.
You will be driven, ambitious and motivated and we will harness this into your development. You will care about the stakeholders and customers.
You will have experience as a Merchandiser, ideally within fashion retail merchandising and a multichannel environment.
Diversity
We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are providing service to our colleagues and customers. We know that this will help us build a great service, which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences.
Recruitment Process
We’ll help make the interview process as transparent and stress-free as possible.
We review applications individually, and if we feel you would be a good fit, we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role and to see if we’re a good fit for you.
We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, allowing you to learn about our work in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel this is your opportunity.
Please note, this is not a remote role and our expectation is that you will be able to attend Head Office in a hybrid way, in Greater Manchester.