Junior Merchandiser - Leeds, United Kingdom - Ben Sherman Head Office

Ben Sherman Head Office
Ben Sherman Head Office
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Leeds, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Junior Merchandiser

Come and join the team at Ben Sherman
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.


Purpose of the role:

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.


Key Responsibilities:


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 daytoday basis ensuring that products are despatched to the agreed exfactory 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 preagreed 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.

Knowledge/skills:


  • 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.
  • Selfmotivated

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