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Mountain Warehouse

2mo ago

  • Job
    Full-time
    Entry Level
  • London

AI generated summary

  • You should have strong analytical skills, experience in retail merchandising, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively to drive sales and improve product displays.
  • You will manage product selection, stock levels, and presentation, analyze sales trends, collaborate with suppliers, and ensure an appealing store layout to optimize customer experience.

Requirements

  • - Systems/planning tools - expert level
  • - Knowledge of all B&M systems and processes
  • - Knowledge of retail operations/supply chain process
  • - Commerciality, energy and passion

Responsibilities

  • Drives the seasonal category strategy ensuring KPI’s are in line with the overall brand strategy, including sales, buy and options, using analysis to quantify risks and opportunity and communicating to leadership team
  • Plans and buys a balanced range for the category in line with budget, agreed intake phasing and architecture. Ensures range shape/construction is fit for purpose with inputs from Buying, and Trading teams, identifying options, colours, sizes needed
  • Plans buys in line with promotional events, maximising opportunities and ensuring timely intake to meet launch dates.
  • Identifies category range opportunities, providing feedback to HoM and buying
  • Follows through the planning critical path, ensuring that all key actions are executed on time
  • Ensures all planning line lists are fully up-to-date, and that new season prices are set correctly, reflecting range architecture
  • Responsible for category WSSI, identifying and communicating risks and opportunities, maintaining accurate forecasts, and ensuring that stocks are sufficient to achieve availability and performance KPIs within OTB/OTC
  • Optimises availability online and in stores, notably on best sellers, maximising sales and profit, ensuring sufficient stocks are held at all times, managing CON and volume line cards appropriately, and reviewing line reports weekly, ensuring intake is optimal
  • Identifies and communicate sales/stock risk and opportunities across regions and channels, ensuring initial pricing is correct and markdowns/mark ups maximise sell through/profit and are inline with category KPI’s
  • Ensure category intake phasing is in line with requirements, reflecting this in weekly PTS requests, ensuring sufficient (and not excess stock) is shipped to MW warehouses
  • Understand the width of SKUs held at each DC for the category, understand the differences and ensure there is optimal assortment width
  • Leads by example, as a role model within merchandising and the MW team
  • Develops, coaches and supports team members to fulfil their potential, through regular one to ones, setting clear SMART objectives and delivering best practice always, creating succession plans
  • Identifies process opportunities for improving efficiencies and supports system developments and improvements
  • Close communication with Buying and Retail Trading

FAQs

What is the primary responsibility of the Merchandiser?

The primary responsibility of the Merchandiser is to deliver category performance objectives in line with the seasonal and global growth strategy, while being accountable for online and retail inventory and performance KPIs.

Who does the Merchandiser report to?

The Merchandiser reports to the Merchandise Manager.

What are the key tasks involved in planning and buying for the category?

Key tasks include planning and buying a balanced range for the category in line with budget, ensuring range shape is fit for purpose, planning buys around promotional events, and identifying category range opportunities.

How does the Merchandiser ensure timely product intake?

The Merchandiser ensures timely product intake by planning buys in line with promotional events and by following through the planning critical path to execute key actions on time.

What is required to optimize availability online and in stores?

To optimize availability, the Merchandiser must maximize sales and profit on best sellers, ensure sufficient stocks are held at all times, and manage line reports weekly to ensure optimal intake.

What kind of team member development is expected from the Merchandiser?

The Merchandiser is expected to develop, coach, and support team members through regular one-on-ones, setting clear SMART objectives, and creating succession plans.

What qualifications or knowledge should a candidate have for this position?

Candidates should have expert-level knowledge of systems/planning tools, be familiar with all B&M systems and processes, understand retail operations/supply chain processes, and possess commerciality, energy, and passion.

What benefits are offered to employees in this role?

Benefits include a competitive salary and benefits package, holiday allowance, 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends, and a pension scheme.

What is the company's mission and history?

The company's mission is to make the outdoors accessible to everyone by offering value-for-money products and exemplary customer service, launched in 1997. Despite its growth, it maintains the values of a small family business, focusing on great products.

What importance does communication with other teams hold in this role?

Close communication with Buying and Retail Trading is vital for aligning strategies and ensuring the Merchandising plans are effectively executed.

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Retail & Consumer Goods
Industry
1001-5000
Employees
1997
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Established in 1997, Mountain Warehouse has grown rapidly to become the largest Outdoor Retailer in the UK, with 400+ stores worldwide and strong online sales both in the UK and Internationally. To keep us on the cutting edge of the outdoor world we are always on the lookout for talented, enthusiastic people from all walks of life who love to be part of a fast paced team. If you embrace hard work, love change and strive to always make things bigger and better then come join us. We have a vibrant, busy office full of great people. There are loads of opportunities to get involved in projects away from your day to day and plenty of opportunity for growth across all departments. If you think you have what it takes to join the Mountain Warehouse adventure check out our Current Vacancies.