Trading Admin Assistant London, England
Job description
Summary
Our International business has the exciting job of bringing our famous clothing, food and home products to over 32 million customers worldwide. Collaborating with our partner businesses, different countries and cultures, you'll work with colleagues around the world to help us reshape International as we know it.
Our ambition is to more than double International retail sales online, so there's never been a better time to join the department and make your mark as we continue to build inclusive and diverse relationships, and put the business and our colleagues at the forefront of every decision we make!
This is a fantastic role supporting the International Trading team in the maximisation of sales through the effective planning, selling, and trading of a global product range that delivers profitability for M&S in addition to our international partners.
What’s in it for you?
Being part of M&S is exactly that – becoming a part and playing your part. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
- 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
- An outstanding introduction to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development. Having options to progress is something we’re proud of at M&S.
- 29 days holiday including bank holidays!
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website. Including GymSave – that offers up to 25% off Gym Memberships and the option to become an M&S Shareholder using our ShareSave & ShareBuy Schemes
- Charity Volunteer Day – A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
- A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
- Every colleague at M&S has access to a phenomenal range of wellbeing support – this includes access to our 24/7 Virtual GP, PAM Assist to support you & your family & free access to the UnMind App as well as many other schemes
What you'll do
- Support the International C&H trading team in the delivery of a global product strategy, which maximises sales and aligns to the business strategy, across all selling channels and routes to market
- Understanding of the critical path lead-times for both product and partners, taking ownership for ensuring timely and effective inventory management
- Support the International trading and marketplace teams to ensure purchase orders are raised correctly within the critical path for optimum trading and supporting the Trading teams in delivering best in class selling events for all partners including assisting with product catalogue accuracy and event management
- Working with the Trading team and sourcing offices to track changes to product and ensure purchase orders are shipped on time for the planned seasonal launch.
- Work closely with the Hub teams to efficiently manage inbound stock within SLA, to ensure optimum fulfilment for partners. Ensure all lines are systemically set up ready to dispatch for optimum trading potential
- Support the international trading team with sales and stock analysis to support with maximising order book and profit opportunities for future growth
- Plan and action effective distribution of tradable stock across partners and channels, considering performance and profitability
Who you are
- Strong numerical, administrative, analytical and interpretive skills.
- Ability to initiate and build strong relationships with people, through strong communicative, influencing and organisational skills.
- Critical path creation and delivery understanding.
- Ability to understand performance, key metrics and how to use such data to maximise sales and deliver growth in future seasons in their area.
- Ability to fully utilise appropriate IT systems.
- Ability to manage change and adapt to fresh challenges and new ways of working
- A desire to be part of a high performing culture
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M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.
We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.
If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.
