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Senior Merchandiser

Job Posted: 23 days ago

Salary: £ 1 - 40,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Leicester, City of Leicester

Expire in: 5 days

Job Description

A Senior Merchandiser, you will be responsible for delivering strong commercial results through strategic planning, trading insight and team leadership.
You will be responsible for budget management, inventory management, and ensuring a seamless integration between buying, planning, and marketing teams.
This role demands advanced merchandising expertise, strong leadership capabilities, and a strategic mindset focused on profitability and sustainable growth.
Fashion experience preferred
The role:
  * Lead the seasonal trading strategy, ensuring sales, margin and stock targets are achieved.
  * Own WSSI, forecasting and budgeting across your department.
  * Analyse weekly performance to identify trends, risks and opportunities, delivering clear recommendations.
  * Oversee allocation, replenishment and stock flow across all sales channels.
  * Manage relationships with key marketplace contacts.
  * Partner with Buying on range building, price architecture and product lifecycle management.
  * Drive markdown and promotional strategy with a focus on margin optimisation.
  * Produce effective trading reports and present insights to senior leadership.
  * Lead, coach and develop a team of Retail Assistant Merchandisers.
Requirements:
  * Strong experience in a merchandising role with a focus on trading
  * Proven success improving margin and profit
  * Excellent analytical and numerical ability; confident with WSSI, forecasting and advanced Excel.
  * Commercial and data driven
  * Confident making quick, high-impact decisions
  * Strong background in pricing, planning, and trading- ideally in fashion or marketplaces
  * Great communicator with strong influencing skills
  * Experience leading and developing teams
  * Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable in a fast-paced environment
  * Excellent problem-solving skills
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Please be aware the duties listed above are an interpretation of the role and do not form any part of your employment contract. Please ask the interviewer any questions about the role that you wish to clarify.
Tagged Resources Limited acts as an employment agency. We have 25 years of Recruitment and Industry experience, working with Retail and Supply Chain markets and have various positions available. If this vacancy does not suit your experience and you are looking for a suitable role, please look at our website or follow us on social networking sites. All are updated daily

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