SENIOR ASSISTANT MERCHANDISER | LONDON | CIRCA £35,000 | LIFESTYLE FASHION RETAILER | HIGHSTREET & ECOMMERCE
BENEFITS

Competitive Salary DOE £
25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
Hybrid working
Accessible Location A leading lifestyle brand who are currently experiencing record growth in their history. Whilst they continue to evolve through their elevated product offer they are organically growing their merchandising function to support the business with their strategies to reach more spaces in the UK and internationally.

The role of an Assistant Merchandiser will be to support the Merchandising Team to achieve departmental sales, markdown, stock, intake and profit plans. In return for your hard work and commitment, this role offers a path for development and progression within a merchandising channel.

Responsibilities Include:

Own daily line sales, update your forecasts for all areas
Monitor stock vs sales across all platforms, and gain full trading visibility into partners performance each week
Review margin across all lines weekly, whilst being able to protect new product margin gains with the wider buying and merchandising team
Build lessons learnt decks for each season
Continuously analyse stock, sales, availability, size ratios
Suggest and implement mark down and promo's with the trading team
Protect never out of stock lines with forecasting accurately at the start of each season
Place well balance order qunatities on each range, producing clear ranges with hero and core lines
Manage all admin amends and updates around data dumping and actualised sales
Work closely to all product teams, in house and partner side on the trading calendar
Ensure stock is in at the right time, in the right place and well stocked at all times to achieve sales
You will identify where cancellations and phasing activity needs to occur with the support of your assistant and trainee.
Development of junior members of the team, motivating team morale whilst setting realistic goals & objectives.
Ensure that the daily administrative tasks are done being done accurately & in a timely manner by your direct reports.
Review product and supplier mix's with your Buyer to ensure that the right product, quality and designs are being brought into the businessBBBH32089