Job Description:

Job Title: Assistant Merchandiser

Salary: Negotiable depending on experience

Location: Rochdale

Our client is currently looking to recruit an experienced assistant merchandiser to join the team due to continued growth. An excellent opportunity to join a thriving organisation that prides itself on retaining the family feel and valuing their employees. This is a critical role supporting the wider merchandising team ensuring all reporting, critical path is kept up to date to ensure a smooth process is followed.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Weekly update of store orders and till sales, provide internal updates on sales from previous weeks to aid forecasting and decision making.
• Data Input into forecasting system where required; min stocks, missed sales, and maintain system with accurate information.
• Downloading, processing and re-uploading stock availability reports and producing comments relating to out of stocks <1.5 weeks cover.
• Processing invoices received from suppliers; follow up short shipments where applicable.
• Ensuring internal systems are up to date once invoices received.
• Checking critical paths from applicable suppliers; movements queried where required and relayed back to merchandisers.
• Monthly checks in place to ensure our open order records mirror that of suppliers.
• Ensuring system is up to date with live docking and booked container dates.
• Generating weekly report from detail held in Power BI to show service level for each category and support merchandiser with a report on variances from projections.
• Updating the service predictor as per requirements of merchandiser.
• Generating purchase orders for all categories where required and sending to suppliers.
• Ad hoc reports to be set up and/or maintained as per instruction given from merchandisers; these would include but are not limited to P&L report, sales/colour ranking, EOS stock declarations, rolling changes.
• Checking allocation orders from Dunelm and inputting into system accordingly once reviewed.
• Checking new launch visibility online and work with internal teams and customer to correct where required.
• Liaising with freight forwarders; air freight and sea freight. Reporting requirements where applicable.
• New launch reports set up and maintained where required.
• There may be a requirement to forecast a small number of skus depending on dept needs.

Supplier/Customer Management

• Place orders with the mill in a timely manner, adhering to lead times given, to ensure that customer delivery requirements are met. Orders placed by either sea or air freight depending on delivery time scales.
• Regular communication with the supply base including on site/ teams meetings where required to maintain expected levels of service.
• Management of the suppliers to ensure that all deliveries arrive at the specified time, being fully aware of any delays or stock shortages. Liaise with customer as and when required.

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