Assistant Merchandiser - Textiles - Hybrid in Manchester

The Company: An exciting opportunity for an Assistant Merchandiser to join an established Textiles company with an excellent reputation who offer training and progression opportunities. You will support the merchandising team with the production of reports and general administration duties, to improve overall output and efficiencies. The job role holder will be a proactive individual, with attention to detail, accuracy & customer service. The Merchandise Team is an integral part of the organisation, and you will be an essential part of this team. A good working knowledge of managing supply base, critical paths and meeting strict deadlines are key to performing in this role. Working as part of the Merchandise function you will be developing positive and professional working relationships with internal departments, suppliers, customers and key internal stakeholders.

Core Competencies:

• Planning: Experienced at making decisions independently where necessary and accepting responsibility for those decisions.
• Strong organisational skills to effectively manage multiple deadlines and workload.
• Capacity to adapt to changing priorities and demands.
• Training (Coaching & Development): To take part in development activities to support the duties of the post or enhance personal development.
• Systems: Knowledge of Microsoft word packages particularly Excel, ability to manipulate data and build reports. Ability to adapt well to implementation of new systems.
• Communication: Experienced in communicating with suppliers, customers, line managers, peer groups and supporting departments through excellent verbal and written communication. Ability to establish, develop and maintain supplier and customer relationships with professionalism.
• Behaviour: To always promote a positive and professional culture across areas of the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Weekly update of store orders and till sales, provide internal updates on sales from previous weeks to aid forecasting and decision making.
• Data Input into forecasting system where required; min stocks, missed sales, and maintain system with accurate information.
• Downloading, processing and re-uploading stock availability reports and producing comments relating to out of stocks <1.5 weeks cover.
• Processing invoices received from suppliers; follow up short shipments where applicable.
• Ensuring internal systems are up to date once invoices received.
• Checking critical paths from applicable suppliers; movements queried where required and relayed back to merchandisers.
• Monthly checks in place to ensure our open order records mirror that of suppliers.
• Ensuring system is up to date with live docking and booked container dates.
• Generating weekly report from detail held in Power BI to show service level for each category and support merchandiser with a report on variances from projections.
• Updating the service predictor as per requirements of merchandiser.
• Generating purchase orders for all categories where required and sending to suppliers.
• Ad hoc reports to be set up and/or maintained as per instruction given from merchandisers; these would include but are not limited to P&L report, sales/colour ranking, EOS stock declarations, rolling changes.
• Checking allocation orders and inputting into system accordingly once reviewed.
• Checking new launch visibility online and work with internal teams and customer to correct where required.
• Liaising with freight forwarders; air freight and sea freight. Reporting requirements where applicable.
• New launch reports set up and maintained where required.
• There may be a requirement to forecast a small number of skus depending on dept needs.

Supplier/Customer Management:

• Place orders with the mill in a timely manner, adhering to lead times given, to ensure that customer delivery requirements are met. Orders placed by either sea or air freight depending on delivery time scales.
• Regular communication with the supply base including on site/teams’ meetings where required to maintain expected levels of service.
• Management of the suppliers to ensure that all deliveries arrive at the specified time, being fully aware of any delays or stock shortages. Liaise with customer as and when required.

Benefits:

• Annual Performance bonus based on company performance.
• Workplace pension.
• Financial wellbeing support & initiatives provided by HSBC.
• BUPA Employee Assistance Programme.
• Annual Health & Wellbeing initiatives.
• Paid annual leave above statutory minimum.
• Paid sick leave.
• Enhanced Maternity and adoption leave.
• Parental leave.
• Remote / hybrid working (50 days per annum).
• Career Development.
• Free Parking on site.
• Employee discount – 60% off all products.

Please be aware the duties listed above are an interpretation of the role and do not form any part of your employment contract. Please ask the interviewer any questions about the role that you wish to clarify.