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About the Role
We are seeking a permanent, full-time merchandiser to manage our product lifecycle from range planning to post-sale analysis, using insights to shape future collections. This role is based in our London studio and involves close collaboration with founders, design, digital, brand, content, and customer service teams.
Responsibilities
- Build the range plan for each drop by category, price tier, and fabrication, reconciling with sales and inventory planning tools.
- Balance carryovers against newness and set buy depth and open-to-buy by category and drop.
- Run range gates for new styles, ensuring each has a planned lifespan, margin threshold, validated RRP, and clear purpose before fitting.
- Lead drop-by-drop range reviews and provide clear product reads in fittings regarding price, category, and fit.
- Own the WSSI and weekly trade read, comparing planned against actuals, and identifying products for promotion or markdown.
- Set reorder timing and depth in-season against the demand forecast, considering long lead times.
- Manage the stock sheet and associated plans, including phase-out, markdown, liquidation, and sample sales.
- Plan the trade marketing calendar with Brand & Content to ensure optimal product promotion for key moments.
- Report sell-through, return rate, and margin by style, conducting wash-ups after each drop and season.
- Review return reasons with digital and customer service teams to inform actions on range, fit, and product information.
- Build evidence for new categories, including recommendations on entry, order, lead times, and financials for founder approval.
- Manage the spreadsheets and administrative tasks associated with the buy.
Requirements
- Merchandising or buying experience in womenswear ready-to-wear, ideally at a DTC brand with a multi-drop calendar.
- Strong product eye with the ability to read product like a buyer and advocate for opinions with data support.
- Experience shaping a range using sales and returns data, not just reporting on it.
- Experience running a WSSI and placing in-season reorders against a forecast.
- Confidence with data and planning tools, including the ability to build or improve them.
- Ability to treat returns as a commercial lever.
- Self-directed, organized, and capable of building processes where none exist.
- Ready-to-wear experience is essential.
- Accessories experience is a plus.
Skills
- Range planning
- Sales analysis
- Returns analysis
- WSSI management
- In-season reordering
- Data analysis
- Planning tools
- Process development
- Shopify (nice to have)
- Polar (nice to have)
- Inventory Planner (nice to have)
Location
- London
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Merchandising or buying experience in womenswear ready-to-wear
- Experience at a DTC brand working to a multi drop calendar
- Experience across accessible entry prices as well as premium (nice to have)
Benefits
- 30 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Additional 0.5 day leave on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve
- Medicash Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension Scheme
- Enhanced Sick Pay
- Enhanced Parental Pay
About the Company
- Rat & Boa began between the beaches of Thailand and the streets of London, embodying an energy of freedom, contradiction, and unapologetic self-expression.
- The brand designs for women who live boldly, evoking a spirit of adventure, sensuality, and duality.
- Each piece reflects a commitment to style that is both timeless and fresh, made for hedonistic women who make their own rules.