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About the Role
We are seeking a Junior Merchandiser to join our Men's Accessories team. This role involves analyzing data and building relationships to plan and optimize product ranges for customers. You will work towards key performance indicators including sales, profit, stock, and margin, while also leading in-season trading and managing merchandising assistants.
Responsibilities
- Accurately plan and forecast sales, stock, profit, and SKUs for your category.
- Manage the commercial and customer success of a product range through range planning and in-season trading.
- Utilize analysis and reporting to support decision-making.
- Manage stock flow, control inventory levels, and manage open-to-buy.
- Maximize availability across channels while minimizing inventory holding and supply chain costs.
- Collaborate with internal teams including Merchandiser, Buyer, Merchandising Manager, and Supply Chain.
- Maintain strong relationships with suppliers and brands.
- Forecast assortment sales, stock, and margin KPIs, and determine Open To Buy parameters.
- Make seasonal trading decisions, quantify buy volumes, and manage product lifecycles with suppliers.
- Task manage relevant Merchandising Assistant partner(s).
Requirements
- Proven experience in Merchandising.
- Experience in forecasting & planning, WSSI management, influencing & stakeholder management.
- Experience in financial sign offs, numerical modelling and stock flow planning.
- Demonstrated experience in merchandising practices, including assortment planning and stock management.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel or similar analytical tools.
- Proficiency in reporting tools such as Business Intelligence, Tableau.
- Communication and presentation skills.
- Understanding of Retail Operations and Supply Chain Management.
- Proactive approach to learning and development.
Skills
- Analytical skills
- Commercial skills
- Range planning
- Forecasting
- Planning
- WSSI management
- Influencing
- Stakeholder management
- Financial sign offs
- Numerical modelling
- Stock flow planning
- Assortment planning
- Stock management
- Microsoft Excel
- Business Intelligence
- Tableau
- Communication
- Presentation
- Retail Operations
- Supply Chain Management
Location
- Pimlico Head Office campus
- London Central Office, 1 Drummond Gate, London, , SW1V 2QQ
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Fixed term contract
Experience Level
- Junior
- Partnership Level 8
Salary/Compensations
- £34,000 to £51,100
- up to £45,000, depending on experience
Benefits
- Night Premium at a rate of £4.75 per hour for time worked between 22:00 - 06:00
About the Company
- We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose.
- We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world.
- We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail.
- We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify.
- As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards.
- We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.
- We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong.
- Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE.
- Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.
- As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.
Equal Opportunity
- We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.