Junior Merchandiser - Women's Apparel

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 requiredAchieve company Sales, Margins and stock plans