Assistant Merchandiser

MRS. ALICE; London; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing homewares brand in London is seeking a motivated Merchandising Assistant to support the Merchandising and Buying team. The role involves order management, stock reporting, and collaboration with various teams. Candidates should have experience in merchandising, strong Excel skills, and thrive in a dynamic environment. The position offers benefits like home working on Fridays and great personal discounts.

Benefits

Home working on Fridays

Personal discount code

Friends and family discount

Qualifications

• Minimum of one year comparable experience in a direct-to-consumer merchandising role.
• Confidence to engage across our team at all levels.
• Enjoying early stage company culture is also a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Create and follow a purchase order with a supplier.
• Ensure all stock is properly receipted and recorded.
• Create weekly, monthly and seasonal trading reports.

Skills

Highly organized

Attention to detail

Advanced Excel/Google Sheets

Ability to work under pressure

Communication across teams

Tools

Bright Pearl

Job description

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Mrs. Alice is a fast growing homewares brand designing and curating seasonal collections of tablescapes, tableware and homeware. The brand launched in 2019 and has been growing rapidly since, serving customers worldwide from www.mrsalice.com.

We are looking for a highly motivated Merchandising Assistant to work alongside the Merchandising and Buying team to ensure we keep our beautiful product bought on time to deliver to our customers.

Whilst this role is very administrative, we would like the successful candidate to be someone who enjoys the challenge of scaling a fast growing business alongside a small team and keen to develop in their role quickly to take on more responsibility.

Responsibilities

Order management

• Create and follow a purchase order with a supplier
• Through collaboration with the warehouse team and our USA 3PL, ensure all stock is properly receipted, recorded and that the correct inventory is kept up to date
• Match invoice to purchase order and report discrepancies to accounts, and to supplier including damages and shortages
• Ensure timely rebuys to keep our product in stock at the expected stock turn levels

Stock Management

• Work alongside the buying & ecommerce teams to ensure new products are correctly created and updated on our backend ecommerce & inventory systems

Stock reporting

• Create weekly, monthly and seasonal trading reports in regards to product sales
• Report on stock accuracy reporting in the warehouses
• Report on inventory availability

Requirements

• Highly organised with a great attention to detail and driven by accuracy of information
• Minimum of one year comparable experience in a direct to consumer merchandising role
• Advanced excel/google sheet skills and confidence working with data
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-moving dynamic retail environment
• Confidence to engage across our team at all levels
• Knowledge of Bright Pearl is a big bonus, or any similar retail operating system
• Enjoying early stage company culture is also a bonus - we move fast!
• Home working on Friday’s but flex if you need it
• Great personal discount code and a friends and family one too
• Importantly a great team to work with for a high growth brand