Location: Manchester
Type: Permanent
Industry: Ladieswear
Job Ref: TGN5393
The Company:
Our client a leading fashion brand are looking for a Merchandiser/Senior Merchandiser to join their Retail Marketplace merchandising team.
12 months Maternity Cover
HYBRID WORKING 2 DAYS FROM HOME
The Role:
- Responsible for delivering strong commercial results through strategic planning, trading insight and team leadership.
- Budget management, inventory management, and ensuring a seamless integration between buying, planning, and marketing teams.
- Advanced merchandising expertise, strong leadership capabilities, and a strategic mindset focused on profitability and sustainable growth.
- Lead the seasonal trading strategy, ensuring sales, margin and stock targets are achieved.
- Own WSSI, forecasting and budgeting across your department.
- Analyse weekly performance to identify trends, risks and opportunities, delivering clear recommendations.
- Oversee allocation, replenishment and stock flow across all sales channels.
- Manage relationships with key marketplace contacts.
- Partner with Buying on range building, price architecture and product lifecycle management.
- Drive markdown and promotional strategy with a focus on margin optimisation.
- Produce effective trading reports and present insights to senior leadership.
- Lead, coach and develop a team of Retail Assistant Merchandisers.
Skills Required:
- Strong experience in a merchandising role with a focus on trading
- Proven success improving margin and profit
- Excellent analytical and numerical ability; confident with WSSI, forecasting and advanced Excel.
- Commercial and data driven
- Confident making quick, high-impact decisions
- Strong background in pricing, planning, and trading- ideally in fashion or marketplaces
- Great communicator with strong influencing skills
- Experience leading and developing teams
- Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Fashion experience preferred