- London
- Up to £45,000 DOE
- Meeting with the buyers and merchandisers from the key accounts, building strong relationships
- Managing stock planning and ordering, ensuring buying decisions are led/influenced by sales analysis, ensuring full availability
- Ensuring customer forecasts are firm and accurate before placing orders with the Buying team
- Take ownership of the critical path for your customers, ensuring required delivery dates are met, mitigating risks, and escalating blockers
- Downloading customer sales figures, analysing these, and reporting to both internal and external teams as needed
- Acting as one of the main points of contact for customers alongside Account Manager and Product Developer, providing an excellent level of service
- Working closely with the factories, ensuring all agreed critical path dates are achieved
- Conducting SWOT analysis on projects and events, using this analysis to direct the team regarding sales trends to help with bidding for new projects, evolving product offers and driving growth for business
- Liaising with the warehouse to ensure timely deliveries to key customers are made with agreed packaging, and to agreed deadlines
- Attending weekly Merchandising meetings, presenting sales & stock data
- Experience within a Merchandising or Demand Planning role
- FMCG / volume accounts experience ideal
- Excellent numerical skills, highly commercial with a background working with consumer goods
- Experience of managing stock across multiple global locations (China, Europe, India, etc)
- Excellent Excel skills
- Strong customer service and communicative skills
- Direct factory experience working with global suppliers
- Self-motivated team player, thrives within a busy, fast-paced environment
- Desire to work for a purpose-led, creative consumer brand
Merchandiser - Croydon, United Kingdom - I Love My Job Ltd
Description
Our client is a successful British consumer brand who creates design-led products for leading retailers globally. They are a huge UK success story and have experienced substantial growth over the past few years and are now looking for a Merchandiser to join the team. As a company, they are committed to sustainability and ethical practices, and as a result, they have a loyal customer base (both B2B and B2C) which is rapidly expanding.
They are looking for a driven & commercial Merchandiser with solid merchandising experience within a consumer goods business. You will be managing the forecast for key FMCG accounts, ensuring all stock is delivered in a timely and efficient manner, and that customers' expectations are managed effectively. Your role will involve forecasting and keeping full availability on continuity lines, as well as project managing and conducting sales and stock analysis for key company events and promotions.
It is essential that you have an interest in sustainability and want to join an amazing, purpose-led company with enviable eco-credentials
Duties and Responsibilities for this Merchandiser role: