Senior Business - London, United Kingdom - Bloom & Wild

Bloom & Wild

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Bloom & Wild is re-inventing the $60B global flower industry. Over a billion flower exchanges take place every year and industry satisfaction levels are low.

Driven by our vision of creating the destination for making life a little more thoughtful and beautiful, we do things differently.

From inventing letterbox flowers to founding The Thoughtful Marketing Movement. And we've seen impressive traction to date - we are Europe's largest direct to consumer flower company.

In January 2021 we announced our £75 million Series D funding round, led by General Catalyst (backers of Airbnb and Deliveroo), alongside other top tier investors including Index Ventures (investors in Wise and Glossier).

We are home to a family of 3 strong brands, Bloom & Wild, bloomon and Bergamotte, having acquired bloomon in April 2021 and Bergamotte in July 2021.

Together, we are active in 8 countries.

We really care about creating a diverse and inclusive team and we welcome people from all backgrounds, with different perspectives, ideas and experiences to work with us.

In our team, everyone has the freedom to give their opinion, grow in their career and be part of a genuinely caring and inclusive team.

Commercial Team at Bloom & Wild

You will be part of our international commercial team, responsible for the P&L and day to day running of our country teams. Your role in the team will primarily be to manage our 'trading' activities, working closely with our internal teams and external suppliers to ensure we have good availability across our whole range of products, whilst reducing the risk of wastage of our fresh flowers.

You can expect to work cross-functionally with several key departments:

1.

Central Forecasting:
Who aim to accurately produce short, medium and long term delivery forecasts across our entire range of gifts

2.

Digital Marketing:
Who aim to retain existing customers, and acquire new customers. The marketing forecasts form a key input into the weekly local forecasts which the forecasting team produces

3.

Range and Merchandising:
Who are responsible for designing our range and developing the strategy for how we merchandise it on site. The commercial team liaises closely with these teams particularly around new flower launches, and on the long-term range strategy

4.

Own Fulfilment Sites:
we have recently launched our own warehouses in the UK & Germany. This team optimises for customer satisfaction, quality and associated COGs, and the UK commercial team work closely with our UK warehouse to manage stock

5.

Business Development:
Who are responsible for the launch of new categories on site (e.g our expanding 'gifting' range)

Our key enablers for every element of our operations are data and technology, so there is also often close collaboration with those teams.

Even for areas of the business where the trading team are not directly involved, they are often a key stakeholder in conversations, and as such you can expect to learn a lot about every element of our business.

The role and ways of working

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a crucial function to Bloom & Wild, which will allow you to make significant contributions to our day to day operations, and give you the opportunity to work cross functionally with several departments, in a 'matrix management' style.

You will own the relationships with our key suppliers, and manage our week to week availability and wastage metrics.

Over our peaks (Christmas, Mother's Day and Valentine's Day), you will also assist project managing the execution across the whole business.

In general, you'll be working with collaborative and passionate people who care about what they do.

It's a fast-paced environment, very few days are the same and you can immediately add impact Your key responsibilities will include the below, but due to the evolving nature of our company, additional project work can be expected (especially in our off-peak summer months), and tailored to your long term learning and development plans.

Warehouse relations:

Owning our day to day relationships with our own fulfilment sites

Weekly stock management:

Providing key inputs to our weekly forecasting process, based on recent sales trends
Monitoring weekly internal sales data, summarising any trends, and recommending actions to the wider business
Liaising with our marketing teams to help balance demand and supply

On-site merchandising:

Using a variety of onsite tactics to help match our supply with demand, maximise profitability, and control wastage

Peak planning & execution:

Support in the planning, project management and execution of Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Mother's Day peaks

You:

23 years experience, preferably in an operational or analytical role (although recent graduates are welcome to apply)
Intermediate Excel / Google Sheets skills
Collaborative with excellent communication, relationship a