Junior Merchandiser

Start date October 2025 (Full or Part time, depending on candidate)

Job Description

• Be competent at sales analysis and trading for website and Wholesale
• Seek opportunities for growth and margin improvement
• Communicating with suppliers, placing orders and managing delivery dates and logistics
• Negotiate buy alongside MD, understanding componentry required
• Running weekly stock reports on Dear Inventory to manage stock levels, sharing this with relevant members of the team
• Sales and stock reporting and analysis. Week, month, season, annual.
• Manage out of stocks
• Deliver best seller reports for business to support buy depths, trading and general analysis
• Use Shopify reporting to help decision making process on web.
• Mange development, booking and delivery of stock.
• Ownership of critical path for new products, managing supply base for seasonal deliveries
• Deliver seasonal planning with support of MD. Produce company plans at weekly level from April 2025
• Keep detailed RP by season, using as company stock bible and reference point
• Pricing - timings and costings for in house products
• Comp shops to ensure our RRP's are in line with comp and support in re sourcing product where needed.
• Create & manage price architecture
• Costing and negotiating prices for external suppliers
• Raising POs, liaising with suppliers and Knit Shop
• Ordering materials and knitted fabric
• Managing priority list and QC for seamstress priority list
• Setting SKU and supplies up on system, putting stock into system, transfers etc
• Checking invoices from a stock point of view, raising invoices, raising manual invoices
• Shipping – analyse shipping costs, negotiate terms, liaising with courier account managers and negotiating best rates for wholesale and web
• Logistics - getting quotes for large shipments from Europe & China, arranging imports, handling duties
• Bespoke projects - point of contact for anything bespoke - having calls and email correspondence with customers, liaising with design and seamstresses, planning in sampling and production into our production schedule, costings timeframes.
• Wholesale pricing – setting currency conversions, creating pricelists and order forms for wholesale
• Researching anything .gov related, commodity codes, any import/export requirements and ensure all info is accessible and clear for the team
• Ordering any material or supplies for the production team and products (cushion pads, threads, zips, stuffing)
• Manage product cashflow tracker
• Arranging any testing, certification etc
• Licensing and royalty contracts - drawing up contracts as required, checking over any licensing agreements that come in, point of contact
• Setting up any new systems, processes, maintaining inventory system, contracts etc.
• Covering Web and wholesale roles when on holiday, or during busy periods
• Manage sample tracker to track stock

Skills Required

• Methodical and Organised
• Competent on Cin 7 and Shopify
• Calm and good with people
• Ability to multi task
• Problem solving
• Good communication skills
• Negotiation skills
• Excellent Excel skills