- £45,000
- Reading area, Berkshire
Love getting under the skin of the numbers behind a beautiful furniture and interiors range?
We're looking for a Merchandiser to take ownership of range performance and stock planning for a fast-growing, design-led furniture and homewares brand. Working closely with the Buying team, you'll make sure the right stock is in the right place at the right time - forecasting demand, managing budgets, and spotting the opportunities (and gaps) that will shape next season's range. It's a role that blends sharp analysis with real commercial input, and genuine scope to influence strategy.
This is a great opportunity to join a small, fast-moving team where you'll get stuck in from day one, build strong relationships across the business, and help shape how the Merchandising function grows.
What you'll be doing
- Pulling together category, SKU, and attribute-level analysis for trade reviews and sign-offs, proactively suggesting actions
- Reviewing the current range to spot gaps and opportunities, working with Buying to shape the range for each new season
- Maintaining and reforecasting WSSIs at category level, and keeping Line Cards up to date to support buying decisions
- Managing stock and container budgets, forecasting and raising orders at container level to hit optimum stock levels and lead times
- Recommending discontinuations, promotional activity, and price changes to clear stock as needed
- Liaising directly with suppliers across the Far East and Europe on purchase orders, forecasts and queries
- Building strong cross-departmental relationships and raising the profile of Merchandising across the business
- Supporting and developing more junior members of the team
- Providing analysis and data to support the wider financial budgeting process
- Spotting and suggesting process improvements to make the Merchandising team more efficient
What you'll bring
- Excellent Merchandising experience and solid knowledge of the end-to-end buying process
- Experience managing and reforecasting WSSIs
- Strong numerical, analytical and interpretive skills
- Experience within furniture, home products or ecommerce is a bonus, as is a degree or equivalent experience, though neither is essential
- Confident negotiation skills and the ability to build strong relationships, internally and externally
- Great attention to detail and exceptional organisation
- Strong presentation skills, comfortable presenting large volumes of data with confidence
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel
- The energy to thrive in a small, fast-growing business
Why join
This is a brilliant opportunity to take real ownership of a product area within a growing, design-led brand - with genuine scope to shape strategy, develop your skills, and make your mark. If you love combining sharp analysis with commercial impact, we'd love to hear from you.
Diversity & Inclusion
ILMJ values diversity, equality and inclusion and encourages applicants from all backgrounds and identities.
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