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The White Company

Dec 28

  • Job
    Full-time
    Junior Level
  • London

AI generated summary

  • You need strong Excel, Word, and Outlook skills, retail experience, and the ability to demonstrate numerical competency.
  • You will manage purchase orders, allocate stock, analyze sales data, maintain merchandising systems, conduct store visits, and build stakeholder relationships while ensuring timely execution of processes.

Requirements

  • System skills including Excel, Word and Outlook.
  • Retail experience highly desirable
  • Ability to demonstrate numerical competency

Responsibilities

  • Purchase order & Intake management
  • To raise purchase orders and ensure that all orders are correctly maintained on the system. To demonstrate awareness of key dates, lead times and critical path deadlines.
  • To ensure that information such as price, quantity, delivery date and supplier are correctly maintained.
  • To manage supplier confirmation and intake delivery schedule.
  • To keep up to date with Buying, QA and Suppliers in weekly Critical Path meetings. To ensure availability issues are flagged to Assistant Merchandiser.
  • Allocations
  • To efficiently allocate stock to stores, to review store grading and IAQs, to ensure optimums are set correctly at all times across all channels.
  • To work closely with Branch Merchandising, and respond promptly to store queries.
  • To develop a thorough working knowledge of the allocation system, and use it to maximise retail sales and profit.
  • To ensure weekly replenishment is in line with forecast and trade actions.
  • Trading
  • To produce accurate and comprehensive weekly trade report, end of season and ad-hoc analysis.
  • To review weekly sales at option level and suggest trading actions.
  • To update central reports i.e. Back Order Report, Out of Stock Report and Availability Report each week.
  • Merchandising Systems
  • To develop a thorough working knowledge of all Merchandising systems – namely, Dynamics NAV, Mplan, TXT and BI.
  • To ensure product seasonality is correctly set up and maintained within Mplan and TXT systems.
  • Commercial Awareness
  • To undertake regular store visits. To produce appropriate business reports after each visit and follow up action plans.
  • To undertake competitor visits on a regular basis and feedback any relevant points.
  • To understand the critical dates and deadlines in both the planning and trading process.
  • To build relationships with key business stakeholders.
  • Training and development
  • To instigate appropriate improvements to working practices and systems.
  • To adopt a positive and proactive approach to training and development, to participate fully in all team related activities.

FAQs

What is the main responsibility of the Merchandising Admin Assistant?

The core responsibility is to assist the Merchandising team with retail stock allocation, raising purchase orders, managing intake levels, and general administration.

What kind of experience is preferable for this role?

Retail experience is highly desirable for this position.

What systems should the candidate be familiar with?

The candidate should develop a thorough working knowledge of all Merchandising systems, including Dynamics NAV, Mplan, TXT, and BI.

What software skills are required for the Merchandising Admin Assistant?

System skills including Excel, Word, and Outlook are required.

Is there an opportunity for professional development in this role?

Yes, there is continued development support from the in-house Learning and Development Hub.

Are there any employee benefits associated with this position?

Yes, employees can enjoy benefits such as discounts, holiday buy options, a pension scheme, a discretionary bonus scheme, and various other perks.

How many vacation days does the company offer?

The company offers 23 days of holiday, which increases to 25 days with length of service.

Does the company promote equality and diversity?

Yes, the company is committed to creating an inclusive culture that welcomes and celebrates a diversity of backgrounds and identities.

What is the work-from-home policy?

Employees have the option to work from home on Mondays and Fridays.

Are there opportunities for employees to engage in community service?

Yes, employees are offered a Volunteer Day to work with a charity of their choice.

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The White Company

Retail & Consumer Goods
Industry
1001-5000
Employees
1994
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

We’ve been making impeccably stylish, beautifully designed products, principally in white, for over 25 years. Think style not fashion, quality not quantity and an attention to detail that extends through everything we do – from the hand-stitching on a luxurious high thread-count pillowcase to our second-to-none customer service. We believe it’s the little things that matter. Precious moments of uncomplicated happiness are our constant inspiration and it is with those in mind that we design and create edited collections made to last and become an intimate part of our lives. We spend time developing our product ranges and put the same care and attention to detail into selecting the best people to join our growing and innovative business. From retail stores and ecommerce to Buying & Merchandising, quality experts, our support services, qualified accountants and visual/creative experts - The White Company inspires passion from all its people, and a genuine commitment to each other.