Merchandising Assistant | Competitive Sports & Performance Brand | Manchester City Centre | Circa £24,000

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and rapidly evolving sports and performance brand that has already established itself in a competitive marketplace.

Having gained solid traction both online and in physical retail locations, the brand is now navigating a phase of significant growth and expansion are looking to grow their merchandising function. They are on the immediate look out for a merchandising assistant to come and join the business.

This is a brilliant opportunity for a self starter, ambitious individual who wants to kickstart their career in the sports & athleisure industry.
As the Merchandising Assistant:
*Be the support function to your product development & wider merchandising team
*Manage the critical path of booked styles with your product development team
*Manage & accurately update the full delivery schedule
*Communicate daily with suppliers, warehouse and your full product teams around the status of booked lines
*Raise and manage all Purchase Orders
*Ensure all detail within Purchase Orders are accurate at all times
*Support with Monday Trade meetings by pulling reports for your merchandiser
*Ability to analyse reports and data to build information & actions for your team
*Ability to feedback opinion and fact around sales and stock from reports to your merchandiser
*Make sure all product "goes live" when stock is in the warehouse, ensuring that product goes onto the website ASAP
*Manage and images vs stock discrepancies yourself
*Monitor competitors, if not daily, weekly around new product they are selling along with their prices and any mark down
*Work collaboratively with partners and their merchandising, buying and marketing teams
*Support with key trading periods i.e Black Friday & Christmas promo’s
*Understand freight times, challenges and ability to book in stock with forwarder’s and warehouses
You will:
*Calm, cool & collected
*Collaborative
*A strong, confident communicator
*Accountable
*Pro-active
*Problem solver
MUST HAVE:
*Strong interest in the sports/lifestyle & performance market
*Strong, advanced Excel skills
*Desired, but not essential; Degree or qualifications in buying/merchandising/business management
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