Senior Merchandiser (TGN5255) – £40k

Location: Manchester

Type: Permanent

Industry: FMCG

Job Ref: TGN5255

The Company:

An excellent opportunity for a Senior Merchandiser to join a successful FMCG company working with Blue Chip Retailers

This is a really exciting role in a fast-paced working environment

The Role:

• Raising Purchase Orders and Customer Sales Orders
• Manage the critical path for your orders.
• Liaise with the Account Managers, Shipping, Design and Tech teams to ensure the smooth running of the critical path.
• Where relevant, order and / or send out labelling and packaging to suppliers.
• Generate progress reports.
• Arrange new product order handover meetings with various departments.
• Critical path order management with all parties to ensure on time deliveries to customer – escalating any issues to the account manager.
• Direct communication with customers from order confirmation to delivery/shipment.
• Liaise with shipping team to make sure vessel bookings are made in line with Customer and UK requirements.
• Weekly order book update (tracker’s) to all customers – highlighting any delays/issues.
• Working closely with the Planning/Purchasing team and advising them of when components/packaging are arriving and any delays so no issues to production planning.
• Working closely with the dispatch department on customer deliveries so customers can be always updated.
• Will need to attend weekly customer calls and customer meetings as and when required.

Skills Required:

• Previous experience in a similar role is ideal.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills are essential.
• Ability to manage a busy workload with targeted deadlines
• Excellent IT skills, Excel etc
• Previous experience managing a critical path