Merchandiser

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Hours: 35 hours per week (some mornings and weekends) but will work hybrid

• An annual care day and volunteer days
• Flexible working opportunities including working from home opportunities
• Free onsite parking for when you are in the office
• A variety of other cultural and lifestyle benefits, aimed at promoting a positive work/life balance

Elevation Recruitment Group - Marketing Division are excited to be working with a fantastic well-known brand.

As a Merchandiser, you'll manage all key financial Merchandising KPI’s across Planning, Trading & Forecasting. In this customer-facing role, you will maintain, develop and contribute to the profit plan for a specified area of responsibility and ensure all stakeholders have the right information, at the right time to facilitate right first-time decisions across product, finance, and supply planning. You'll take customer data and insights and marry this with sales data, being central to creating opportunities for each customer business plan to achieve their profit potential across national accounts.

Working closely with your Customers, Supply Chain, Product, and Range, you’ll ensure the right information is available at the right time to ensure the seamless delivery of product to store when it’s needed. As the merchandising specialist in your customer team, your main responsibilities include:

Responsibilities:

• Account planning including sales plans, customer budget, and SKU level decision-making activities
• Evaluating financial factors including assumptions and suitable contingency plans
• Forecasting across all elements whether total business, account, caption, or line level
• Stock allocation requirements to deliver the customer plan whilst minimizing stock exposure
• Top line trading analysis for forward planning and identifying risks & opportunities
• Facilitating the optimum range selection process through your analysis and insights
• Developing strong cross-functional relationships to ensure all interventions/activities are delivered in the most effective & profitable way
• Driving efficiencies, improved ways of working, and increased profit across your customer accounts

Central to the team, you’ll use your knowledge of the retail landscape, customer objectives, and consumer shopper insights to crunch the numbers and make profitable, timely decisions for the short, medium, and long-term impact. Articulate, proactive, and resourceful, whether you’re looking for the next step in your merchandising career or a side step into a supplier environment, to be successful we’re looking for you to demonstrate:

• Previous experience of working in a merchandising role or similar role within a Retail / FMCG business
• Excellent Excel, numeric & analytical abilities to identify commercial insights relevant to our audience
• You’re a confident communicator, able to adjust your approach to varying audiences, marrying your strong presentation skills with your skilled use of data and insights
• You’re a people person, taking the time to build strong relationships, working with others to achieve shared objectives
• Your commercial acumen, using your knowledge and insights to engage and influence others, keeping profit growth at the core of decision-making
• You’re organized, with a keen eye for detail, with experience of planning and forecasting sales across everyday & seasons
• A solid awareness of retail, and ideally our category, influences which are factored into your decision-making to mitigate risks to sales