Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.
JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.
We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.
Merchandise Assistant - JD
Role Overview:
The Merchandise Assistant (MA) plays a key role within the Merchandising function, providing
vital support to the Merchandising team to achieve optimum efficiency and to deliver the
department plan on customer, sales, and profit.
The Merchandise Assistant assists the department with day-to-day tasks such as updating
supplier order books, booking in stock, managing problem orders and actioning stock
movements, ensuring the correct stock is in the right place at the right time to maximise
profitability across all channels.
Responsibilities:Order (30%):
- Support with size ratio of lines on smaller brands, with AM guidance.
- Create purchase orders via upload and check all details are accurate prior to sending
to supplier
- Reconcile supplier order books and communicate all anomalies.
Stock (35%):
- Update supplier order books and ETA reports on the system.
- Book in product as directed by the Merchandiser.
- Liaise and be first point of contact with the warehouse around delivery issues and
problem orders.
- Cost and retail checks on orders booked into the warehouse in conjunction with the
Assistant Merchandiser.
- Scheduling (initial allocation) checks
Trade (35%):
- Print and run key reporting for Monday trade meetings.
- Develop awareness of product area through analysis of reports and store visits.
- Maximise best sellers through the review of ideal stock levels.
- Action stock movements, including IBTs, in conjunction with the Assistant
Merchandiser.
- Collate and check weekly price amendments.
- Follow up on feedback from Retail and Branch Merchandising to support the stores.
- Review new store performance, suggesting actions to the team
- Complete marketing requests
- Ad-hoc reports and analysis for the team as required.
- Establish collaborative working relationships within teams across functions.
Role objectives and KPIs:
Key objective is to support the Merchandising team to effectively deliver departmental goals
and KPIs – sales, profit and stock - across all channels (stores and digital).
Competencies and behaviours:
2.1 Working with People
3.3 Presenting and Communicating Information
4.1 Writing and Reporting
5.1 Learning and Researching
6.3 Following Instructions and Procedures
Skills and experience:
- Experience within a Merchandising environment is advantageous.
- Analytical skills required.
- Keen eye for detail and ability to accurately enter and check data.
- Enthusiastic about JD, its brands and customer.
- Basic knowledge of Excel.
- Good communicator able to build relationships with stakeholders and to work across
teams.
- Able to take ownership of work and use initiative to deliver on key responsibilities.
- Good teamwork skills, being able to work collaboratively to reach a common goal,
sharing information and supporting colleagues.
- Positive, flexible, and responsive to business needs.
- Curious with a continuous learning mindset.
Training needs to upskill:
Intermediate Excel training course
People Development Aspire programme / courses e.g: Time Managemen
We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.
Thank you for your time
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