Merchandiser Knit - Lutterworth, United Kingdom - ASDA

ASDA

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Lutterworth, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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JOB TITLE:
Merchandiser Womens Knitwear & Swimwear

ABOUT THE ROLE:

This is a fixed term role covering Maternity leave, to run the Merchandising for the Womens Knit & Swim departments.

Involves Managing a Junior (who will own Swim) and an assistant

Expectation of the role:

To plan and trade the department sales and markdown budgets, control stock levels, deliver a balanced, timely & commercial range whilst driving profit ahead of sales.

Demonstrates great teamwork & leadership skills to create a robust financial strategy, which includes Profit, building blocks (sales & margin), category sheet, promotional strategy, attribute mix and risk management.
Works with buyer to deliver season margin building blocks & highlights the impact to profit.
Working with the buyer, establishes our current market position, identifies where we want to be and builds a strategy of how to achieve it.
Demonstrates great teamwork with the buyer & designer, influencing that key looks / high ranked lines go down the store distribution and drives category ranking.
Calculates buy quantities against each line and rolls up to the category / dept budgets.
Takes ownership in delivering an event sign off across the George business.
Adept at financial planning, sets up a % bought sheet and ensures all the financial plans reconcile to the total season budget. Manages spend position effectively.
Accountable for the overall department stock management ensuring correct mix of stock in store in line with supply chain targets. Adept at planning the supply chain targets.
Responsible for capacity and fabric planning with supply base. Reviews YOY business.
Accountable with the buyer for the completion of the supplier strategy built up from a lead time, risk & margin strategy and presents to the sourcing team.
Drives and inspires the wider team to deliver a focused trade message and ensures the actions are delivered. Ensures the teams report on sales / profit across all multichannels.
Demonstrates proactive forecasting skills within financial planning tool, reviewing future markdown risk, highlighting OTB opportunities and identifying any stock risk.
Empowers the team by asking powerful questions, encouraging colleagues to think through issues, learn to selfmanage and be accountable.
Plans the financial strategy including Profit, building blocks, category sheet, Good-BetterBest mix, promotional activity and relevant attributes. Delivers profit ahead of sales.

ABOUT YOU:

Knowledge:

A proactive team member who demonstrates a passion for product, vocalises opinions and has strong product development & presentation skills.

Creative interpretation of trends with both commercial and technical skills.

Communicating and influencing:

Displays strong interpersonal, organisational, coaching and leadership skills.

Freedom to Think and Act:

Self-motivated and able to work under pressure, quickly and effectively to agreed deadlines. Flexible and able to travel.