Overview
Reporting to the Merchandiser you will be driving category sales and profit through inventory management, availability planning and ensuring promotional activity is executed successfully
What you'll be doing
1. Trading
- Confidently identifies opportunities and risks and proposes solutions.
- Review both store and line performance with team
- Collaborates with Trading team to maximise store opportunity and growth
2. Planning
- Provides accurate analysis to aid the development of the department strategy and range planning.
- Using lessons learnt to assist in building line buys at appropriate level.
3. Intake management
- Effective management and understanding of PTS process for entire category
- Ensures intake availability inline with promo and catalogue launch.
- Manages CON lines using line cards
4. Pricing and Promotional Activity
- Understands and implements company pricing process
- Works across functions to manage the promotional critical path for effective in store promotions and catalogue for the category
- Manages future promotions according to current trade
5. Manages Self and Others
- Develops line reports.
- Trains new team members across own team and wider merchandising function
- Seeks opportunities and initiates own development.
- Develop and maintains positive cross functional and external relationships.
- Becomes an effective presenter and is able to communicate clearly and confidently, across all levels in the business
We'd love to meet someone with
- Systems/planning tools –allocation systems, merchandising data system, Excel and Outlook
- Knowledge of store operations / retail experience
- Is professional at all times
- Some Management training / experience desirable
- Achievement of department KPIs
- Develops both self and line reports
- Accuracy of information/analysis provided
- Timely provision of figures to business
- On-time launch availability for PE, promo and catalogue
- Manages CON availability through use of line cards
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Holiday allowance
- 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
- Pension scheme
In 1997, we launched Mountain Warehouse to make the outdoors accessible to everyone by offering value for money product and exemplary customer service.
The outdoor industry had become very jargon heavy and we wanted to create a brand that would cater to our mothers and our neighbour’s kids as well as seasoned professionals who understood the technology.
Our expansion since then has seen the brand grow and the product evolve, but the small family business that makes MW special has remained. Great product is at the heart of everything we do.
As we expand internationally we employ a team of dedicated diverse people to offer our valued customers the best possible experience when visiting our stores, shopping online and putting our range through its paces.
Welcome to our journey.