Merchandising Manager

About the role

As a Merchandising Manager you will be managing multi-categories with scale and complexity and be responsible for ensuring our retail offering is innovative, customer-led and commercially successful. This role will report into Senior Merchandising Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Delivering and tracking against the key commercial KPI's of sales and profitability
• Curating the optimum assortment for our customers that delivers on all our commercial targets, sales and profitability across multiple business units – instore, ecommerce platforms
• Identifying market trends, growing and developing new areas of business identified as strategic growth opportunities
• Negotiating with and managing the supplier relationship and the ongoing maintenance and improvement of commercial buy terms
• Defining and executing the pricing and promotional campaigns & strategy for the category together with coordination and support from suppliers and brands
• Product and supplier sourcing & development in line with strategy
• Contributing to the annual budget building process – sales, other operating income that include instore promotional brand spaces, brand marketing opportunities, re-evaluation of commercial buy terms
• Stock allocation and distribution and in-stock purchase guidelines
• Business analysis and evaluation of sales, stock-turn, stock levels, promotion effectiveness, markdowns
• Work and coordinate closely with retail, operations and logistics departments to deliver optimal retail performance

About you

• Minimum 3 years of experience in merchandising / retail and buying
• FMCG sector preferred
• Computer literate - experience using Microsoft Office (Excel and PowerPoint)
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain supplier and brand relationships
• A resilient and results driven mindset with a focus on meeting targets
• Store visits required
• Exceptional negotiation skills
• Strong numeracy skills and ability to analyse data
• Supply Chain / Import & Export experience preferred
• Great team player with ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment