Product and Merchandising Manager : West London : £36k
Product and Merchandising Manager : West London : £36k
A new and exciting opportunity for a Product & Merchandising Manager to join this prestigious eyewear brand, with a fantastic working culture, ambitious and rapid growth plans, delivering excellence in eyewear design to its customers.
We are looking for an experienced Product and Merchandising Manager to add value to our growth activities on a day to day basis. An excellent product and merchandising manager who has a communication with all levels of management, being responsible to maintain a positive relationship will all vendors as well negotiating sales. Taking control of all stocks level which involves proficiency with spreadsheets and accounting skills. This role requires constantly analysing current sales and new market trends and working closely with the designer (CEO) to develop new collections to the market.
This role involves developing and implementing plans for the future on the product sale by delegating tasks to global sales reps. The company has stores in London in Zone 1 and 2 and the candidate must work closely with retail staff by taking in control the inventory and provide training of new product release.
Job Description:
- Oversee merchandising projects management, including management workflow from inception to execution and meeting deadlines
- Working closely with designer (CEO), marketing to ensure our brand is consistent and relevant for our customers in order to drive commercial sale
- Regular communication with production team to ensure the products are made on time and at the highest quality
- Working on stock profiles to every store
- Ensuring the integrity of the stock replenishment system
- Training retail staff on new product releases
- Planning what product sales reps carry in the various territories
- Range planning for new releases with CEO
- Launch strategies and interfacing with the marketing team on new product launches
- Working with key accounts on exclusive collections.
- Analysing sales and new market trends and working with the CEO to develop the core collection as well as the new Luxury collection
- Range planning for our new brand collection
- Work closely with sales reps to expand growth of the brand
- Being confident by having exceptional communication skills, as you will be dealing with other teams internally and externally.
- Quick thinking to spot trends, evaluating large amounts of data and making sound decisions.
Essential and required skills:
- A degree desirable i.e. Maths, Statistics, Finance, Business Studies etc
- Previous working experience as merchandising manager for more than 5 years
- Some solid retail experience
- Must have written and verbal communication skills. This includes negotiation skills and the ability to write professional emails.
- Product and Merchandise Managers must have organizational skills and to use them on how to manage inventory and track products through system.
- Decision Making Skills, being able to make decisions. These decisions involve which vendor to use, which products to sell and how to best arrange those products on the sales floor.
- Call upon analytical skills to look at sales trends and larger industry trends to make informed decisions on which products to stock.
- Having soft skills to necessary lead and delegate tasks in a way that empowers colleagues.
- Being able to switch big picture thinking and attention to the smallest detail in order to successfully complete their job
- Keeping calm when under pressure
The Offer:
- Salary: £36,000 per annum
- Holiday :32 days including bank holidays
- Normal Working Hours: Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 5:30 pm
- Workplace pension scheme
- A fun and lively working environment based at our new headquarters in TW8 with a combined office, production site and a new recreation facility for staff.
We do try to get back to as many applicants as possible, however some roles are in very high demand, and we will always carefully select and shortlist the resumes that are most aligned to our client’s requirements; so if you have not heard back from us within 2 weeks, then please assume that your application has not been shortlisted on this occasion.
Salary: £33000 - £36000 Per Annum