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We’re passionate, practical, and people focused. Our values - welcoming, responsible, authentic, and innovative - guide everything we do as we help the nation discover the joy of being out there. If you’re driven to empower every kind of adventurer and make the outdoors accessible to all, you’ll feel right at home with us.
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Junior Merchandiser
Outdoor Fascias
Reporting to: Senior Merchandiser
Operating Ratio: 20/80 Current / Future
Key Objective: To lead the team to deliver Sales, Markdown, Stock, Intake and Profit Plans
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the Merchandise Assistant and Assistant Merchandiser.
- Responsibility for the deparmtnental WSSI.
- Manage Intake at category and line level in conjunction with the team.
- Plan seasonal launch in conjuction with the Buyer, Marketing, Retail and VM.
- Review weekly trading performance and achieved KPI’s, identifying issues and the course of action in preparation to present in the weekly trading meeting.
- Propose and agree actions to recover risk and maximise opportunities with the Merchandiser and Buyer at category, brand and line level.
- Attend monthly WSSI meetings with your Merchandiser to sign off:
- Forecasting any sales and stock variance to plan
- OTB’s
- Management of commitments – On time delivery, rebuys cancellations
- Markdown proposals
- Manage the range plan in season reflecting any changes.
- Assist in the building of the visual layouts with the Buyer and VM.
- Manage the order books both in season and preseason to ensure that the most accurate information is always in the system.
- Manage the stock seasonality.
- Develop awareness of product area through store visits and by reviewing the sales analysis.
- Ad-hoc reports and analysis for as required.
Planning
- Creation of the departmental strategy in conjunction with the Senior Merchandiser/Buyer.
- Review previous seasons and produce SWOT Analysis with supporting information.
- Create category level product mix using history, SWOT and SLT Plan.
- With Senior Merchandiser formulate the space and option count.
- Build the seasonal financial and buy plan in conjunction with the Senior Merchandiser and Buyer.
- Ensure that the WSSI is updated with the buy plan and the KPI’s are signed off with the Senior merchandiser.
- Attend key selection meetings with the Senior merchandiser and Buyer.
- Overview the linecards with Assistant merchandiser
- Ensure that the buy matches the buy plan.
- Establish working relationships with supplier base.
Teamwork
- Reporting to the Senior Merchandiser.
- Work with the Senior Merchandiser and Buyer to deliver the plan.
- Guide and direct the Merchandising Team to help deliver the plan.
- With the Senior Merchandiser provide and monitor development plans for the Asst Merch / Merch Asst on a regular basis.
- Communicate to the Retail Team anything that will impact on Stores performance.
- Establish working relationships with Store Operations, Visuals, Marketing.
Key Deliverables – Year 1
- Attend all systems courses to enable full utilisation of the System
- Adhere to the Merchandise Calendar delivery plans and forecasts as required
- Achieve company Sales, Margins and stock plans
Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of you applying, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager. Thank you again for your time
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