Junior Merchandiser

**Junior Merchandiser**

**Come and join the team at Ben Sherman**

Join Ben Sherman as we strive forward in the Menswear market. This is a key time to join the business and be part of our ambitious plans. We have an exciting opportunity for a Junior Merchandiser to join our dynamic team based in our modern Head Office at Thorpe Park, Leeds.

**Purpose of the role**:
As a Junior Merchandiser, you will play a vital role within our Merchandising teams. You will provide essential support to your department and provide senior management support to the junior team.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Trade and Planning**:

- Present weekly trade for your area, highlighting any risk, movements and anomalies to budget.
- Support the HOM and Sales Team in building the annual sales and margin budget by customer and product category
- Responsible for the management and maintenance of the order tracker. Presenting any key changes to the wider team in weekly Trade meetings.
- Meet weekly with the buying team to manage the Critical Path, highlighting any risks to production and therefore budget.
- Ensuring the right stock is in the right place at the right time across all BSI channels.
- Assisting the HOM in producing size scales on a seasonal basis
- Raising of purchase orders (bulk and samples) alongside the junior team members, adding this information to the tracker, issuing barcodes and shipping labels (where appropriate)
- Ensuring all relevant information is correct and present in the system, including price lists, order quantities and delivery dates where required.
- Assist the Merchandiser with stock, sales and cash flow via spreadsheet maintenance and accuracy
- Ensuring all supplier invoices and packing lists are correct, raising queries if necessary
- Monitoring all stock intake and stock levels for the relevant customers and ensuring stock is processed in a timely manner
- Provide the WH teams with weekly intake updates to ensure the efficient flow of stock receipt and despatch.
- Liaise with the accounts/buying teams to ensure they are fully updated on all deliveries and answer any relevant questions.
- Liaise with suppliers on a day-to-day basis ensuring that products are despatched to the agreed ex-factory date.
- Liaise with the logistics and shipping teams to ensure intake is delivered in time and accordance to the critical path.
- Liaising with customers, responding promptly to communications to ensure all needs are met.
- Reading and digesting each specific customer manual, to provide support to suppliers where necessary
- Supporting the HOM in ensuring manuals are up to date to allow suppliers to pack goods in accordance with customer needs.
- Assisting the factories on the shipping process, ensure correct bookings are made and chasing for shipping documents.
- Attend key internal and supplier meetings alongside the Buying and Merchandising teams. Complete all meeting minutes as requested
- Work with the forwarder in requesting freight quotes, raising POs and tracking all freight costs to cross check against invoices
- Advising and approving all labelling / packaging information following customer manuals
- Coordinate and prepare the checking and approval of invoices and packing lists, ensuring invoicing on the system is completed in accordance to the sales tracker and budget.
- Providing regular and ad hoc reports for internal/external teams and customers
- General office / departmental duties

**Strategy**:

- Assist the Merchandiser with range planning including; analysis of previous seasons sales by pre-agreed attributes
- Support the Merchandiser to communicate information effectively to all levels of the BSI management team

**People**:

- Develop, train, and support the departmental Junior Team.

**Knowledge/skills**:

- Relevant skills working within a B&M office - buying cycle, critical paths, and stock management.
- Financial awareness and understanding of departmental budgets and margins.
- Commercial and competitor awareness
- Strong housekeeping and organisational skills
- Effective communicator
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Team player
- Good visual presentation skills
- Time management skills
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Self-motivated

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