Junior Merchandiser

As a Junior Merchandiser, you will play a vital role within our Merchandising teams. You will provide essential support to your department and provide senior management support to the junior team., Trade and Planning:

• Present weekly trade for your area, highlighting any risk, movements and anomalies to budget.


• Support the HOM and Sales Team in building the annual sales and margin budget by customer and product category


• Responsible for the management and maintenance of the order tracker. Presenting any key changes to the wider team in weekly Trade meetings.


• Meet weekly with the buying team to manage the Critical Path, highlighting any risks to production and therefore budget.


• Ensuring the right stock is in the right place at the right time across all BSI channels.


• Assisting the HOM in producing size scales on a seasonal basis


• Raising of purchase orders (bulk and samples) alongside the junior team members, adding this information to the tracker, issuing barcodes and shipping labels (where appropriate)


• Ensuring all relevant information is correct and present in the system, including price lists, order quantities and delivery dates where required.


• Assist the Merchandiser with stock, sales and cash flow via spreadsheet maintenance and accuracy


• Ensuring all supplier invoices and packing lists are correct, raising queries if necessary


• Monitoring all stock intake and stock levels for the relevant customers and ensuring stock is processed in a timely manner


• Provide the WH teams with weekly intake updates to ensure the efficient flow of stock receipt and despatch.


• Liaise with the accounts/buying teams to ensure they are fully updated on all deliveries and answer any relevant questions.


• Liaise with suppliers on a day-to-day basis ensuring that products are despatched to the agreed ex-factory date.


• Liaise with the logistics and shipping teams to ensure intake is delivered in time and accordance to the critical path.


• Liaising with customers, responding promptly to communications to ensure all needs are met.


• Reading and digesting each specific customer manual, to provide support to suppliers where necessary


• Supporting the HOM in ensuring manuals are up to date to allow suppliers to pack goods in accordance with customer needs.


• Assisting the factories on the shipping process, ensure correct bookings are made and chasing for shipping documents.


• Attend key internal and supplier meetings alongside the Buying and Merchandising teams. Complete all meeting minutes as requested


• Work with the forwarder in requesting freight quotes, raising POs and tracking all freight costs to cross check against invoices


• Advising and approving all labelling / packaging information following customer manuals


• Coordinate and prepare the checking and approval of invoices and packing lists, ensuring invoicing on the system is completed in accordance to the sales tracker and budget.


• Providing regular and ad hoc reports for internal/external teams and customers


• General office / departmental duties


Strategy:


• Assist the Merchandiser with range planning including; analysis of previous seasons sales by pre-agreed attributes


• Support the Merchandiser to communicate information effectively to all levels of the BSI management team


People:


• Develop, train, and support the departmental Junior Team.
  
  Relevant skills working within a B&M office - buying cycle, critical paths, and stock management.


• Financial awareness and understanding of departmental budgets and margins.


• Commercial and competitor awareness


• Strong housekeeping and organisational skills


• Effective communicator


• Ability to work on own initiative.


• Team player


• Good visual presentation skills


• Time management skills


• Ability to work under pressure.


• Self-motivated
  
  Join Ben Sherman as we strive forward in the Menswear market. This is a key time to join the business and be part of our ambitious plans. We have an exciting opportunity for a Junior Merchandiser to join our dynamic team based in our modern Head Office at Thorpe Park, Leeds.