Merchandising Manager

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Come and Join the Crew World

Here at Crew Clothing Company we are committed to ensuring our customers look and feel great in our designs. Whether it’s a casual lunch out with friends or a more formal day at the office, we inspire style and confidence in the quality of our clothing and the warm welcome from our teams.

It’s a great time to join the Crew World, we have many exciting opportunities as our company continues grow and flourish and we welcome new talent to help us achieve our goals. Our people are well mannered, enthusiastic and committed to delivering an exceptional experience for our customers whether they shop on the web, at one of our events or in one of our many stores across the country.

This position will support, lead, manage and motivate individual product merchandising teams to provide a cohesive single view to Senior Leadership; to provide an overall view of trading actions in order to drive sales and manage margin whilst keeping in line with seasonal terminal targets.

Responsibilities:

Planning :-

• To provide Merchandising teams with seasonal buying guidance to guide sales, stock, markdown, margin & OTB.
• Ensure product ranges are balanced, commercial and developed in line with agreed financial parameters.
• Management and communication of availability across all departments both seasonal & essentials

Trading :-

• Produce a seasonal overview of performance vs sales, margin, markdown and terminal stock budgets.
• Review trade & trade actions with all departments & provide weekly trade summary to wider business.
• Management & communication of the promotional markdown calendar to drive sales and traction across all channels.
• Overview & summary of departmental WSSIs to Chief Product Officer.
• Management of core product teams ensuring smooth day to day running of teams & processes.
• Partnership with Inventory Manager to manage terminal stock and communicate any risk Senior Team.
• Work alongside Inventory Manager to identify opportunity within stores using linear counts & analysis.
• Management of Critical Path alongside HOB to give teams guidance & also to help identify areas of supplier opportunity in regards to production planning.

Other :-

• Build & maintain relationships with other departments across the business.
• Communicate risk to deadlines to Senior Merchandising Manager and Trading Director

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

Essential –

• Prior experience of working at Merchandiser level
• Must have held responsibility for planning and trading departments.
• Can display sound commercial judgement and experienced in making profit related decisions.
• Has a flair for spotting opportunities whilst managing risk to stock, sales and profit.
• Needs strong people management skills.
• Ability to manage heavy workload and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Ability to drive & motivate a team.
• Strong interest in fashion/retail industry
• Be flexible, enthusiastic, confident and proactive.

Desirable –

• Experienced in multi channel retailing.
• Management skills required.
• Team Motivator
• Enjoy working in a small/medium sized company.
• Advanced excel skills.