Assistant Merchandiser

**About The Role**:
The Role:
We are looking for the right person to support our Men's Fashion department.. Your role will be to provide insight through analysis to support the Commercial team to deliver financial KPI’s, to manage intake and stock levels to optimize return on investment and to support the range planning process.

Hours of work:
Hybrid working; minimum of 2 days in the office.
Core hours 9.00am - 5.00pm, Monday - Friday.

Your day-to-day duties and responsibilities will include:

- Assisting in the creation of seasonal budgets and buy plans by providing analysis of historical data, customer insights and retail data.
- Supporting the product team to deliver agreed KPI’s through production of trading reports to identify gaps and opportunities.
- Helping with monitoring divisional open to buy in line with agreed budget, managing the flow of intake to optimise stock turn.
- Working with the trading team to deliver strong trading messages to our customers.
- reviewing product performance and taking actions to potentialise opportunities and manage risk.
- Ad-hoc data reporting and analysis.

**About You**:

- Previous Merchandising experience is great, in a fast paced retail business would be awesome
- An understanding of Online trading, ideally gained in an online or multi-channel business
- Excellent communication skills
- High level of attention to detail
- Interest in clothing/footwear
- Self motivated with and ability to work to deadlines and under pressure

Advance knowledge of Microsoft Excel

**About Us**: MandM Direct is one of Europe's leading off-price retailers, with over 3.5 million customers shopping with us every year. In today’s hypercompetitive environment, building a brand that our customers can trust is more important than ever. Our long term success is due to our fast-paced, innovative and adaptable environment which continues to keep up with the market’s demands.