Merchandising Administration Assistant

**Triple Wimbledon champion Fred Perry founded his brand in 1952. He was the son of a cotton spinner, who played and fought his way through, always with style - and despite the establishment. Today, Fred Perry is a global community of over 370 employees, all inspired by the Laurel Wreath and what it represents.**

**JOB TITLE**: Merchandising Admin Assistant

**REPORTS TO**:Merchandising Manager

**PURPOSE**:
A Merchandising Administration Assistant at Fred Perry operates within a brand led framework that will often challenge the norms of this function. This role ensures that all stores (Full Price, Off Price and Ecom) have the correct stock package and stock levels are being maintained to achieve their sales plan.

The Merchandising Admin Assistant is responsible for the merchandise allocation of all product categories for the retail business with the objective of meeting financial and merchandising goals. The Merchandising Admin Assistant helps to identify opportunities at a store level and communicate them to the team by effectively and systematically providing accurate information for allocation planning, stock replenishment and trading purposes to ensure stock is directed to stores in the right volumes at the right time to optimise profitability.
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Trade**
- Provide support to the Merchandising Team by taking an active role in analysing

sales trends, monitoring deliveries and maintaining stock levels across all channels
- Allocate departments stock across all channels according to distribution Plan
- Analyse and manage branch stock levels throughout the week
- Review line performance and adapt replenishment schedules accordingly, with approval from the Assistant Merchandiser, and initiate stock consolidations where needed
- Key point of contact for the stores regarding stock levels
- Action any price or product code changes
- Set up and maintain a distribution plan
- Produce and distribute Best Seller reports and Sales and Margin Reports
- Any other ad hoc duties including style, colour and size performance reporting
**TECHNICAL SKILLS**
- Numerate with strong analytical ability
- Advanced Excel knowledge preferred
- Team player - build strong and cooperative relationships cross functionally across the business
- Highly organised with great attention to detail
- Proactive and a good time manager
- Good communication skills
- Commercial Awareness - Demonstrate a good understanding of what is happening in the retail market and the impact this may have on our business
**THE PERSON**
- Passion - looking for a passionate individual, ideally someone who knows and understands the brand, and is keen to go on a journey with us
- Able to problem solve whilst following overall direction
- Comfortable multi-tasking and managing a variety of projects at once
- A keen social and cultural awareness, and an understanding of social and digital trading
- Ideally some experience in a similar role

**HOURS**

We actively encourage our teams to have a good work/life balance and so we are pleased to offer flexible working shifts at Fred Perry HQ. Our core shift hours are from 10am -4.30pm and so employee can choose to start and finish early or start and finish late (i.e. work 8.00am-4.30pm or 10.00am-6.30pm etc). We also have a 30-minute early finish on Fridays.

As we continue to work in a more flexible way, the Head Office acts as a brand hub, where we can all connect and collaborate with one another. This role is a mix of office based (London) and remote working. We will expect the employee to come into the office regularly for face-to-face meetings and to work alongside their team on collaborative projects.
**BENEFITS**

We are proud to offer a wide range of benefits to all our staff, and continue to reassess what our community needs from us to thrive. We don’t want to be a good company to work for, we want to be a great one. Here are some things we currently offer:

- Annual performance-related bonus
- Competitive salary, reviewed every year
- Generous staff discount and regular sample sales
- Generous pension scheme with 8.5% company contribution
- Option to buy an extra 5 days holiday annually
- Enhanced maternity and paternity packages
- Life insurance
- Private healthcare
- Cycle to work scheme
- Early finish Fridays
- Season ticket loan
- 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Annual Birthday vouchers
- Regular opportunities to attend gigs / events