Senior Assistant Merchandiser
Boohoo
- Manchester
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You’ll drive the maintenance of sub-category WSSIs, sending any key actions to the Merchandiser/Senior Merchandiser on your department.
- Supports the Merchandiser in building the seasonal plan on a monthly basis, as well supporting the team in progressing strategy.
- Demonstrates strong external and internal working relationships when dealing with issues such as delivery lateness.
- Takes complete responsibility on the full trade pack on a weekly basis, adapting the analysis and actions based on the trading environment.
- Support planning of budgets by category, option count, and depth of buy, based on the overall business and financial goals of the company
- Consistently manages line cards, forecasting in line with the WSSI to ensure an optimal stock position.
- Review sales forecasts based on performance and action re-forecasts where necessary.
- Recommend any promotions and re-buys where necessary, using relevant data to make these decisions.
- Support the Merchandising Admin Assistant with any administrative tasks and develop their skill set where needed.
- Experience working within Merchandising, ideally as an Assistant Merchandiser for a similar retail business.
- Ability to work at pace and analyse a high volume of data efficiently.
- Previous experience working with Line Cards and had updated the WSSI is desirable but not essential.
- Previous experience working with Excel at an Intermediate to Advanced level.
- Ability to look into the detail as well as the bigger picture, especially by working collaboratively as a team and being a team player at all costs.
- You’re a relationship builder and find communication across various level of seniority easy to adapt.
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 5% employer pension contribution
- Company share scheme
- Flexible working hours
- Late start, early Friday finish
- 4 x life assurance
- Free parking
- Free gym membership and classes on a daily basis including yoga, PT classes and sound relaxation
- Employee assistance programme including 24-hour confidential helpline
- 40% discount across 8 brands, 20% discount on Debenhams
- Discount portal
- Learning and development support and opportunities both internally and externally
- Payday drinks monthly and ad hoc events throughout the year
- As well as the great perks and benefits listed above upon joining you will also have access to several flexible benefits on our Reward Platform “Beyond” such as cycle to work, healthcare cash plan and technology loans