Senior Merchandiser - Childrenswear, 12 month Maternity Cover
J.P. BODEN & CO. LIMITED · GB
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About the Role
As a Senior Merchandiser, you will plan and deliver profitable, customer-focused ranges, ensuring optimal stock levels, timing, and pricing. You will lead and inspire your merchandising team, driving commercial success through data-led decisions, collaboration, and strategic planning. This is a 12-month fixed-term maternity cover contract.
Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver the product planning strategy for your department, aligned to business and margin targets.
- Shape the range framework, using sales analysis to inform range architecture, product phasing and a balanced, commercial assortment.
- Build and optimise range size, newness phasing, and attribute and pricing architecture, always thinking customer first.
- Lead the financial planning cycle, including KPIs, demand phasing, OTB spend, WSSI management and monthly reforecasting.
- Partner with Buying to plan, review and sign off buy quantities, aligned to ROS, hind-sighting and production forecasts.
- Lead weekly trade meetings, turning insights into action and proactively managing sales, stock and BTA performance to maximise profitability.
- Drive markdown and terminal stock management.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Merchandiser, ideally in a fast-paced retail or fashion environment.
- A natural leader with experience managing and developing high-performing teams, including managing underperformance within a structured framework.
- Highly analytical, with exceptional attention to detail and advanced Excel skills.
- Strong commercial acumen and a customer-first mindset.
- Confident communicator who can influence and challenge across functions.
- Organised and proactive, able to manage multiple priorities and take ownership of decisions and outcomes.
- Collaborative, adaptable and approachable, leading by example and supporting the wider Merchandising team.
Skills
- Advanced Excel skills
- Data-led decisions
- Strategic planning
- Sales analysis
- Financial planning
- Demand phasing
- OTB spend management
- WSSI management
- Reforecasting
- Markdown management
- Terminal stock management
Location
- North Acton
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Fixed-term contract
Experience Level
- Senior
- 12-month fixed-term