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Category Manager

2 months ago

Billericay, Essex, United Kingdom DCK Group Full time

About DCK Group

DCK Group is a leading global fashion business that designs, supplies, and distributes fashion jewelry and accessories. Our company culture is built on diversity, equality, and inclusion, and we strive to create a welcoming and friendly work environment that promotes learning and development from day one.

We are seeking a highly skilled Merchandiser to join our successful Merchandising team at our Billericay office. This is a full-time position with a split between home/remote and office work.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work closely with Buying, Design, and Host teams to define and develop the vision and strategy of the brand, identifying new initiatives and planning them in line with the critical path.
  • Manage critical path timelines and key milestone deadlines to ensure they are achieved, prioritizing workload in line with brand priorities and maintaining regular and effective communication with the Merchandise Manager.
  • Drive the development of Building Blocks and Strategy for the department forward with a profitability focus, aligning with DCK and Host Strategy where appropriate.
  • Continuously review the P&L for the department and take action to highlight the full potential of the brand, proposing steps to achieve this using analytics to propose a solution.
  • Use available systems to establish clear and profitable Assortment Plans, along with BEVs and phasing, balancing newness, consolidated lines, and sell-through, taking into account sales and profit density.
  • Sign off strategy and budgets with the Senior team.
  • Ensure accurate and timely pre-season planning based on the strategy and agreed targets, maximizing opportunities and mitigating risk, with a concise summary and action plan relayed to the business.
  • Quantify Building Blocks through data and articulate them to the business with confidence.
  • Complete Seasonal Planning, including Assortment Planning/Option Planning and Range Planning, thoroughly to a high standard, showing a clear understanding of how options, newness, and grading can be optimized to grow profitability.
  • Maximize Space/Options at all times, highlighting risks and opportunities with clear action points to support.
  • Manage the Seasonal OTB, devising and agreeing the option count and phasing in line with the Assortment Plan, and communicating to the Buying Team within deadline, bringing initiatives to the business and delivering them.
  • Set Stock requirements to achieve sales and profit plans, by Total and Branch stocks, FP and MD, top-down and bottom-up within agreed timeframes.
  • Align Stock levels with DCK & Host strategy, presenting opportunities and risks alongside measurable actions, maintaining Stock within plan parameters and in line with Terminal Stock Targets, and providing clear communication to the Merchandise Manager.
  • Undertake accurate in-season forecasting to reflect current trading conditions, highlighting risks and opportunities, and feeding into the planner.
  • Review OTB/OTC requirements, reacting to reforecasts and current trading while keeping within Stock requirements.
  • Work with Buying to highlight margin risks to the business and suggest actions to bring back to plan.
  • Gather information from Hosts, such as footfall, customer insights, changes in their business that would impact our performance, and take action required changes.
  • Identify opportunities and use analytics to solve, including optimization of options, ranging, price, stores, and VM, driving the business through data and analysis to lead Buying and Partner decisions.
  • Rerun sales, stock, intake, and markdown in the WSSI and line cards in readiness for WSSI review.
  • Manage the team, ensuring clear priorities and consistent ways of working.
  • Explore all opportunities to drive the success of the team using data and analytics tools.
  • Encourage a culture of transparency, accessibility, regularity, and clear direction.
  • Coach and guide team members, continually providing clear and transparent feedback in terms of their performance.
  • Lead by example, exerting and displaying behaviors aligned to DCK's DNA values.
  • Conduct regular 1-2-1s with direct reports.
  • Help the team see the 'bigger picture.'
  • Develop the team to succeed in their roles and prepare for future roles.

Requirements

  • Exceptional analytical abilities and clarity of thought.
  • Excellent attention to detail.
  • Vision, initiative, and creativity.
  • Great communication skills.
  • Drive to deliver results.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate competently and clearly.
  • Strong organizational and task management skills, demonstrating agility with the ability to prioritize and work in a fast-moving, reactive business with multiple deadlines resulting in effective delivery.
  • Act with trust and integrity.
  • Respect and be respected by peers and build strong relationships within wider functions.
  • Demonstrate self-awareness and look for opportunities to better oneself.

Why Choose DCK Group

  • Opportunity to work for a leading global fashion business.
  • Be part of a welcoming, friendly business that promotes learning and development from day one.
  • Work-from-home opportunities and flexible working hours to help you develop a healthy work-life balance.
  • Early finish every Friday.
  • Heavily staff-discounted fashion and jewelry allowance.
  • 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and the ability to buy 5 more days.
  • Free parking.
  • Free refreshments and fruit with lunch on us once a week.
  • Community Group Social Events.
  • Plus, many more additional benefits.