good team - your job is to elevate both.
The Role:
As Merchandising Manager, you'll take ownership of the merchandising strategy across the business, managing a small team and reporting directly into the Senior Leadership Team.
- Owning the end-to-end merchandising strategy across online and wholesale channels, ensuring plans are commercially robust and aligned to ambitious growth targets.
- Leading, developing and growing a small merchandising team, raising capability and building a strong bench for the future.
- Driving sales, stock and intake planning, with a close eye on own-brand production timelines and critical path.
- Partnering closely with Buying and Production/Sourcing teams, using a strong understanding of own-brand product development to inform range and stock decisions.
- Analysing trade across channels, identifying risk and opportunity, and translating insight into clear, confident recommendations for senior leadership.
- Managing markdown, promotional and clearance strategy to protect margin while maximising sell-through.
- Building strong relationships with wholesale partners, ensuring stock commitments and order books are aligned with the wider business plan.
- Acting as a key voice in shaping how the merchandising function evolves as the business continues to scale.
About You:
- Proven experience in a Merchandising Manager, Senior Merchandiser, or similar leadership-level role, ideally within fashion, sportswear or lifestyle apparel.
- Strong understanding of own-brand product and production - you'll know your way around critical path, lead times and the realities of working with manufacturers.
- Experience across both online/D2C and wholesale channels is a strong advantage.
- A natural leader with genuine people management experience, able to develop and get the best from a small team.
- Commercially sharp, analytical, and comfortable presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Ambitious and progression-minded - this role has real scope to grow as the business grows, and we're looking for someone who wants to grow with it.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where priorities can shift quickly.
What's On Offer:
- A brand new role with genuine ownership and influence, reporting directly into senior leadership.
- The chance to lead and shape a small, capable team with plans in place for future headcount.
- Real responsibility from day one, with a clear path for progression as the brand continues its exponential growth.
- The opportunity to join a challenger brand at a genuinely exciting point in its journey.
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