Assistant Merchandiser

Reports to:

Head of Trading

Role Overview:

Jaded London are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Assistant Merchandiser to join their growing team. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to join a growing brand and department, with the opportunity to bring your own ideas and expertise to the role. Your focuses will be to bring strong trade analysis and suggestions to Jaded London, Jaded Swim and Jaded Unisex and manage actions on a daily, weekly and seasonal basis. Key responsibilities will also include forecasting sales, quantifying buys, reviewing size and making valuable contributions to planning, range building and strategy.

Being an excellent communicator is essential for this role to build strong relationships with all key stakeholders across internal departments and our external supply chain.

We’re looking for someone who is proactive, with a keen eye for detail and strong ability to problem solve.

WHAT WILL I BE DOING?

• Updating Monday trade reports in a timely and accurate fashion, be able to identify key highlights and lowlights from the previous week and make own suggestions of actions to maximise sales and minimise stock risks. Independently drive analysis of own ideas and areas of focus each week, presenting to Merchandiser and founders.
• Following up trade actions throughout the week with key departments; Ecommerce, Social, Logistics, Production, Design, Suppliers. Feeding back results from actions taken and provide suggestions for future strategies and processes.
• Monitor slow sellers and strong sellers, making regular suggestions on how to improve sales and mitigate risks by liaising with internal departments and presenting suggestions to the wider team. Make recommendations to cancel, phase and reduce buys to manage risk and review impacts to OTB.
• Daily awareness of trading performance, especially around collection launches and how to adapt day-to-day intake and stock management tasks. Instil reactiveness on new styles and campaign styles.
• Ownership of repeats and continuity lines, be able to accurately forecast linecards, ensuring we always achieve maximum availability and healthy cover on bestsellers.
• Make suggestions and recommendations on repeat opportunities and quantity amendments.
• Forecast size ratios for new styles based on performance and accurately provide buy ratios for repeats. Complete regular sizing and returns analysis.
• Suggest price amendments for full price and markdown, be able to present strong rationale with key considerations for cover, margin, seasonality and discount.
• Accurately update WSSI and category WSSI’s, be able to highlight opportunity and risk to sales, stock and intake. Deputise reforecasts in Merchandiser absence.
• Be able to make valuable contributions to seasonal analysis and make suggestions for department strategies, regularly presenting findings and ideas in season.
• Always demonstrating foresight and strong critical path management with awareness of company, internal departments and supplier deadlines. Understanding of own weekly priorities and the impact on other stakeholders, constantly communicating with wider teams to reach shared goals. Particularly focusing on seasonal deadlines, key trading dates and strategies to manage short shelf life products and high potential trading dates effectively.
• Build strong relationships with suppliers and awareness of supply chain capacities and capabilities in respective countries, the impact of freight methods on margin and lead time and key calendar dates across the supply base.
• Continually reviewing intake levels to manage expectations with warehouses and logistics teams. Reporting on any potential lateness risks and opportunities, especially around collection launches and bestsellers, making suggestions on when to amend freight methods. Work closely with warehouse on intake priorities.
• Work closely with buying and design teams, to make clear recommendations on risks and opportunities for new styles on: assortment, product categories, move ons, customer profile, core/flow lines, quantity, RRP, margin, competitors, trend, supplier capacity.
• Position and trade pop up shops and positioning, work closely with external partners, warehouse, shop floor staff to maximise revenue.
• Build relationships with our wholesale partners and our internal wholesale team, understanding our partners trading climate and where we can boost performance.
• Provide key insights and analysis on a continual basis where the brand is constantly evolving, support wider teams with actionable trade analysis and insights.

Requirements

• Commercial awareness and strong trading mindset.
• Proven track record of forecasting and SKU management as well as intake and stock management.
• Advanced level in Microsoft Excel.
• Passion for Jaded London and the fashion industry.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy of work.
• Good negotiation skills, able to work with suppliers to reach the best outcomes.
• Proactive and adaptable. Is able to bring about ideas and change to streamline processes and maximise efficiency.
• Strong communication skills with internal and external stakeholders. Building great relationships with supply base.
• Strong prioritisation and accuracy skills. A critical thinker and problem solver who always bring ideas and solutions.

Benefits

• 50% Employee Discount
• 24 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays)
• A paid day off on your birthday
• A paid moving day per year
• Hybrid Working Arrangements - 1 day per week WFH
• Pension Scheme (3% Jaded, 4% You)
• Bonus Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family
• £500 employee referral bonus scheme
• Local Business Discounts (cafés, fitness, beauty etc)
• North-West London office location directly located next to good transport links
• Casual office dress code (your style of dress is up to you, wear what you feel best in)
• Fully-stocked kitchens and fridges (hello endless brekkie and snack supply, see ya afternoon munchies)
• Regular Office Social Events (e.g. payday socials)