Allocator

If you love beauty, you're in the right place.

As the ultimate curator of over 100 of the most in-demand, highly innovative and boundary-pushing beauty brands, we are the go-to destination for worldwide beauty discovery.

Together through our neighbourhood stores, online presence and loyalty scheme, Space NK has built a flourishing community in which to discover beauty. The customer is at the heart of everything we do, and we will always endeavour to offer everything they need to help them explore, experiment, and enjoy our brands.

Purpose Of Position
To support the Junior Merchandiser in the management of store stock to ensure stock levels are optimised in line with business requirements to deliver sales and profit targets through effective management and implementation of the processes.

This role gives the individual the opportunity to support the inventory branch merchandising function within Space NK and demonstrate immediate impact within this financial year with their actions.

Areas Of Responsibility

• Availability: Stores
• Channel Management
• Ad Hoc

Availability

• Understand and support the team to optimise store availability and minimise markdown through commercial understanding and inventory management.
• Understand the AGR demand planning system and how to deliver accurate demand forecasts to optimise daily replenishment and achieve availability targets for all store grades.
• Understand the tools required to maximise sales/availability for seasonal events, promotional activity, and exceptional trading periods through executing stock builds in system.
• Understand and support the execution of Store availability forecasting for future months – Identifying risks and opportunities and liaising with the Category teams and Supply Chain to deliver the actions.

Channel Management
Support in NAV allocation management to develop an understanding of the available parameters and how changes will create impact within stores.

• Develop strong links with Regional & Store managers through regular and effective communication and identifying opportunities to drive sales.
• Support with communication and implementation to retail teams about stock management such as Recalls/Price changes.
• Attending marketing meetings to ensure that stock is available to support launches, events, emails etc.
• Attend weekly store calls and support in executing actions, supporting the Junior Merchandiser and deputising when required.
• Under the guidance of the Junior Merchandiser support new store management; support in building the floorplan and micro sheets for range building, the stock builds with category teams, identifying risks and mitigating actions plans on a weekly basis to achieve business launch targets.
• Undertake monthly store visits to assess opportunities and risks.

Trade Reporting

• Prepare data for Monday trade analysis and understand how the data is used and interpreted.
• Support requests for Ad Hoc stock and replenishment queries, preparing data and understanding the objective of requests.
• Be able to deputise for the Junior Merchandiser on Trading activities when appropriate.

Training & Development

• Develop excellent working knowledge of all Merchandising systems. Qlikview, QlikSense, Navision, AGR.
• Develop a good understanding of basic retail maths.
• Develop and build strong relationships and networks with cross functional partners both internally and externally.
• Support in the training and development of new starters.
• Responsible for driving their own development and actively seeking out training as required.

Key Relationships & Stakeholders

• Category team
• Retail team
• Retail Operations
• CRM
• Marketing/Events team
• IT team

Qualifications, Knowledge, And Experience

• Entry Level – No merchandising experience required but some retail knowledge is preferred.
• Good Excel skills and basic knowledge of other Microsoft Office tools.
• Numerical – the role requires a good level of mathematical competency.
• Team player
• Ability to analyse and interpret data
• Entrepreneurial with a drive to move the department forward

Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted.

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

If you want to find out more about us, what it is like to work for us, all about our benefits, and our pledges on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, please visit our website.

Space NK are an equal opportunities employer.

How We Will Use Your Information

We will use the information you provide to us with your job application to help us process your application for the specific job you have applied for. If you apply speculatively, we will process your application for the job/relevant business area that you detail within your email.

Please note that our current system does not use an automated filtering system.

All applications made via the website, through a third-party website or in-store will be kept on file for a period of 12 months.

This information will be retained and used to assess your suitability to similar positions that may arise in the future, or if the initial vacancy becomes live again during the 12-month period. If you would prefer us to not hold your information on file/ you wish to be 'forgotten' if you are not offered a position with Space NK, please email your 'right to be forgotten' to our recruitment email address with RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN as the title of the email. We will always inform you when we have deleted your application details, otherwise we will treat your application as consent to us holding this information.