About the role:
Office is recruiting for a Junior Merchanider to join our sports team and be part of an ever growing department. The chance to work with leading fashion sports brands such as Nike, Adidas, and New Balance to bring the most trend lead and exciting new products to our customers.
The Junior Merchandiser will be responsible for end to end management of the accessories department as well as major footwear accounts to maximize sales opportunities and plan future ranges
Main Responsibilities:
- Ownership of key sports accounts and accessories department through day to day trading to planning future ranges
- OTB and sales plan management of the department on our retail planning system
- Produce and analyse weekly reporting at department, brand and store level with the ability to identify opportunities and risk in trade
- Trade the brands: manage and forecast never out of stock lines, suggest repeat orders and plan promotion and markdown strategies considering margin impact
- Orderbook management: intake, outstanding orders, cancellation and phasing proposals to ensure optimal stock flow and accurate commitment data
- Participate in weekly trade meetings with the buying team and senior management
- Attend and present in supplier meetings and develop strong working relationships
- Work closely with stores and branch merchandising specifically on new and remodelled store roll out and planning ranges with grading and option count in mind
- Train and develop junior members and line manage teams workload and progression
- Work alongside the buying team to plan future ranges providing accurate sign off data
- Analyse past performance and propose future strategies for the department
- Ad hoc analysis when required
We’re all passionate about the products we have here at OFFICE, we have an amazing group of individuals that help contribute to our success. We recognise our employees hard work and are keen to encourage Learning & Development across all of our functions. We want like-minded people to join us, strive to be the best and we will be able to give you the platform to do so!
Some of our perks include:
- Flexi- hours
- Contributory pension scheme
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme through the Retail Trust
- Contribution towards eyetest and eyewear
- 23 days annual leave and 8 bank holidays.
- Increased annual leave after two years’ continuous service
- Staff discount
- L&D Development programmes with our Partner; The Fashion Retail Academy
- Travel card loan
- Breakfast on us
- Monthly office socials
- A proven track record as a senior am or junior merchandiser driving sales performance and category management
- Analytical mindset and comfortable working with large data sets and financial budgets
- Commercial and strategic thinker
- Leadership and management skills – previous management of direct reports desirable
- Advanced excel skills and knowledge of reporting tools
- Ability to work as part of a fast paced driven team
- Strong communication skills and ability to build internal and external relationships
