Merchandiser

Role: Merchandiser – Bradford 

Salary: up to £38K per annum

Hours: Monday to Friday 35 hours per week (hybrid working offered)

Benefits:

26 days holiday plus bank holidays
An annual care day and volunteer days
Health cashback scheme
Pension benefit
Flexible working opportunities including working from home opportunities
Free onsite parking for when you are in the office
A variety of other cultural and lifestyle benefits, aimed at promoting a positive work/life balance
Elevation Recruitment Group - Marketing Division are excited to be working with a fantastic well known brand.  

As a Merchandiser you'll manage all key financial Merchandising KPI’s across Planning, Trading & Forecasting. A customer facing role you will maintain, develop and contribute to the profit plan for a specified area of responsibility and ensure all stakeholders have the right information, at the right time to facilitate right first time decisions across product, finance and supply planning.  You'll taking the customer data and insights and marrying this with sales data, you’re central to creating the opportunities for each customer business plan to achieve their profit potential across national accounts.

Working closely with your Customers, Supply Chain, Product and Range you’ll ensure the right information is available at the right time to ensure the seamlessly delivery of product to store when it’s needed.  The merchandising specialist in your customer team your main responsibilities include:

Responsibilities:

Account planning including sales plans, customer budget and SKU level decision making activities 
Evaluating financial factors including assumptions and suitable contingency plans
Forecasting across all elements whether total business, account, caption or line level
Stock allocation requirements to deliver the customer plan whilst minimising stock exposure
Top line trading analysis for forward planning and identifying risks & opportunities
Facilitate the optimum range selection process through your analysis and insights 
Develop strong cross functional relationships to ensure all interventions / activities are delivered in the most effective & profitable way
Drive efficiencies, improved ways of working and increased profit across your customer accounts
Central to the team, you’ll use your knowledge of the retail landscape, customer objectives and consumer shopper insights to crunch the numbers and make profitable, timely decisions for the short, medium and long term impact.  Articulate, pro-active and resourceful, whether you’re looking for the next step in your merchandising career or side step into a supplier environment, to be successful we’re looking for you to demonstrate:

Previous experience of working in a merchandising role or similar role within a Retail / FMCG business
Excellent excel, numeric & analytical abilities to identify commercial insights relevant to our audience 
You’re a confident communicator, able to adjust their approach to varying audiences, marrying your strong presentation skills with your skilled use of data and insights
You’re a people person, you take the time to build strong relationships, working with others to achieve shared objectives
Your commercial accumen, using your knowledge and insights to engage and influence others, keeping profit growth at the core of decision making
You’re organised, with a keen eye of the details, with experience of planning and forecasting sales across everyday & seasons
A solid awareness of retail, and ideally our category, influences which are factored in to your decision making to mitigate risks to sales