Merchandiser FTC London, England
Job description
This is a 6 month Fixed Term Contract to cover Maternity in the Kidswear department
Overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic, resourceful, hardworking Merchandiser who will grow with the company and add value to our fast growing team. This person will report into the Merchandise Manager and will be responsible for delivering category performance objectives, in line with the seasonal and global growth strategy. Accountable for category online and retail inventory and performance KPIs, delivering stock to fulfil category budgets, and trading the online platforms and retail stores in the most profitable way.
What you'll be doing
- Drives the seasonal category strategy ensuring KPI’s are in line with the overall brand strategy, including sales, buy and options, using analysis to quantify risks and opportunity and communicating to leadership team
- Plans and buys a balanced range for the category in line with budget, agreed intake phasing and architecture. Ensures range shape/construction is fit for purpose with inputs from Buying, and Trading teams, identifying options, colours, sizes needed
- Plans buys in line with promotional events, maximising opportunities and ensuring timely intake to meet launch dates.
- Identifies category range opportunities, providing feedback to HoM and buying
- Follows through the planning critical path, ensuring that all key actions are executed on time
- Ensures all planning line lists are fully up-to-date, and that new season prices are set correctly, reflecting range architecture
- Responsible for category WSSI, identifying and communicating risks and opportunities, maintaining accurate forecasts, and ensuring that stocks are sufficient to achieve availability and performance KPIs within OTB/OTC
- Optimises availability online and in stores, notably on best sellers, maximising sales and profit, ensuring sufficient stocks are held at all times, managing CON and volume line cards appropriately, and reviewing line reports weekly, ensuring intake is optimal
- Identifies and communicate sales/stock risk and opportunities across regions and channels, ensuring initial pricing is correct and markdowns/mark ups maximise sell through/profit and are inline with category KPI’s
- Ensure category intake phasing is in line with requirements, reflecting this in weekly PTS requests, ensuring sufficient (and not excess stock) is shipped to MW warehouses
- Understand the width of SKUs held at each DC for the category, understand the differences and ensure there is optimal assortment width
- Leads by example, as a role model within merchandising and the MW team
- Develops, coaches and supports team members to fulfil their potential, through regular one to ones, setting clear SMART objectives and delivering best practice always, creating succession plans
- Identifies process opportunities for improving efficiencies and supports system developments and improvements
- Close communication with Buying and Retail Trading
We'd love to meet someone with
- Systems/planning tools - expert level
- Knowledge of all B&M systems and processes
- Knowledge of retail operations/supply chain process
- Commerciality, energy and passion
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Holiday allowance
- 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
- Pension scheme
In 1997, we launched Mountain Warehouse to make the outdoors accessible to everyone by offering value for money product and exemplary customer service.
The outdoor industry had become very jargon heavy and we wanted to create a brand that would cater to our mothers and our neighbour’s kids as well as seasoned professionals who understood the technology.
Our expansion since then has seen the brand grow and the product evolve, but the small family business that makes MW special has remained. Great product is at the heart of everything we do.
As we expand internationally we employ a team of dedicated diverse people to offer our valued customers the best possible experience when visiting our stores, shopping online and putting our range through its paces.
Welcome to our journey.
