Assistant Merchandiser - Established Textiles Company

Tagged Resources has an exciting opportunity for a proactive, meticulous Assistant Merchandiser to join an established Textiles company in the Manchester area, with an excellent reputation and strong training and progression opportunities. 

The Assistant Merchandiser will support the team by producing reports and handling general administrative duties to improve overall output and efficiency.  Working as part of the Merchandise function, the Assistant Merchandiser will develop positive, professional working relationships with internal departments, suppliers, customers, and key internal stakeholders.

The role of Assistant Merchandiser

Day-to-Day:

• Weekly update of store orders and till sales; provide internal updates on sales from previous weeks to aid forecasting and decision-making.
• Data Input into the forecasting system where required; minimum stocks, missed sales, and maintaining the system with accurate information.
• Downloading, processing and re- uploading stock availability reports and producing comments relating to out-of-stock items with <1.5 weeks cover
• Processing invoices received from suppliers; follow up short shipments where applicable.
• Ensuring internal systems are up to date once invoices are received.
• Checking critical paths from applicable suppliers; movements queried where required and relayed back to merchandisers.
• Monthly checks in place to ensure our open order records mirror those of suppliers.
• Ensuring the system is up to date with live docking and booked container dates.
• Generating weekly report from detail held in Power BI to show service level for each category and support merchandiser with a report on variances from projections.
• Updating the service predictor as per requirements of merchandiser.
• Generating purchase orders for all categories where required and sending to suppliers.
• Ad hoc reports to be set up and/or maintained as per instructions given by merchandisers; these would include but are not limited to P&L report, sales/colour ranking, EOS stock declarations, rolling changes.
• Checking allocation orders and inputting into the system accordingly once reviewed
• Checking new launch visibility online and working with internal teams and customers to correct where required.
• Liaising with freight forwarders; air freight and sea freight. Reporting requirements where applicable
• New launch reports set up and maintained where required.
• There may be a requirement to forecast a small number of SKUs depending on dept needs.

Supplier/Customer Management:

• Place orders with the mill in a timely manner, adhering to lead times given, to ensure that customer delivery requirements are met.
• Orders placed by either sea or air freight depending on delivery time scales.
• Regular communication with the supply base, including on site/ teams’ meetings where required, to maintain expected levels of service.
• Management of the suppliers to ensure that all deliveries arrive at the specified time, being fully aware of any delays or stock shortages.
• Liaise with customers as and when required.

Training (Coaching & Development):

• Take part in development activities to support the duties of the post or enhance personal development.

What Tagged Resources is looking for:

• Experienced at making decisions independently where necessary and accepting responsibility for those decisions.
• Strong organisational skills to effectively manage multiple deadlines and workload.
• Capacity to adapt to changing priorities and demands.
• Good working knowledge of managing the supply base, critical paths and meeting strict deadlines
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word packages, particularly Excel; ability to manipulate data and build reports.
• Ability to adapt well to implementation of new systems
• Experienced in communicating with suppliers, customers, line managers, peer groups and supporting departments through excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to establish, develop and maintain supplier and customer relationships with professionalism

Benefits:

• Annual Performance bonus based on company performance
• Workplace pension
• Financial wellbeing support & initiatives provided by HSBC
• BUPA Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual Health & Wellbeing initiatives
• Paid annual leave above statutory minimum
• Paid sick leave
• Enhanced Maternity and adoption leave
• Parental leave
• Remote/hybrid working (50 days per annum)
• Career Development
• Free Parking on site
• Employee discount – 60% off all products

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Please be aware the duties listed above are an interpretation of the role and do not form any part of your employment contract. Please ask the interviewer any questions about the role that you wish to clarify.

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