merchandiser London, England
Job description
We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.
We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.
Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work. We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.
THE ROLE
You will be part of a team responsible for establishing a process to implement full assortment price trading. This role will work closely with the ASOS AI team, setting up and helping to support analysis of Price Elasticity Modelling. You will also be responsible for supporting in the understanding and analysis of the ROI of various reprice logics, proposing strategies to optimise pricing investments across our FC Hub zones. This includes proposing, adjusting and reporting on our pricing performance, looking at internal and external competitive price proposition data at territory level, and supporting a customer obsessed approach to drive competitive advantage. You will work closely with the Retail and Territory managers and wider Pricing Team interpreting and coordinating analysis from price tests and pricing initiatives to support the Pricing Merchandiser / Head of Pricing and Promotion.
What you’ll be doing…
- Working with the Senior Pricing Merchandiser to review and re-establish the business process for establishing and trading Branded Product pricing across our Global Markets
- Assisting the Senior Pricing Merchandiser to establish the Price Scraping process across the Branded Portfolio, making suggestions for price trading actions in market.
- Working with the third-party Scraping Tool and Team, building working relationships
- Supporting and working with the AI team in the understanding of the Data problems that we are trying to solve through price investment
- Start to build knowledge and understanding of how Price Investment through reprice delivers return on investment
- Help the Pricing Assistant in the management of price change execution process end to end working with the data teams to establish process automation
- Support the Pricing Merchandiser in the communication of analysis and recommendations from initiatives to wider Pricing team and key internal stakeholders
- Develop commercial understanding of ASOS’ Price Investment Pot across diverse international territories and contribute to defining the territory pricing strategy at product type level
- Start to build knowledge and understanding of pricing levers that impact territory and product type elasticity and use this to propose recommendations for dynamic pricing strategies
- Help support the creation and on-going distribution of consolidated weekly and monthly reporting for price trading initiatives across key customer and business metrics to be shared with wider business
- Be a member of a wider pricing team supporting the development of a Price Administrative Assistant
We'd love to meet someone with...
- Previous experience of working in either a Pricing or Merchandising role, at a minimum of an Assistant Merchandiser Level
- Experience of proposing and modelling price strategies, POS & Clearance, alongside evaluating the success of a number of pricing initiatives on various business KPIs
- You are energetic and like working at fast pace, whilst having a passion for interpreting data to solve problems
- High organisation skills, able to use initiative and to work in pressurised environment
- Excellent verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, effectively and appropriately with colleagues, across all levels within the business
- Keen attention to detail
- Computer literate and able to use both Excel and Powerpoint applications to an intermediate/advanced level
- High numerical competency
- Flexible, self-motivated and enthusiastic and a team player
Additional Information
What's in it for you...
- Competitive salary, pension, and private medical care scheme
- Performance related bonus
- Flex benefits allowance - which you can chose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
- 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
- Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
Our Commitments
We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how are we doing it?
We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.
We have several employee networks that operate as safe spaces, to help support and celebrate our people - find out more here.
Do you need any reasonable adjustments? Our recruitment team will be happy to support you in the best way possible if you feel comfortable raising this. It’s also our policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for roles they have applied to.
If you have any questions about the policies we have in place to support our employees (e.g. our parental leave approach), just let our Talent team know.
