Assistant Merchandiser - Textiles - Hybrid (Tgn5578) - Excellent Salary Doe

TAGGED RESOURCES

Manchester

On-site

GBP 22,000 - 30,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Pension

HSBC wellbeing support

BUPA EAP

Health & Wellbeing initiatives

Paid annual leave

Paid sick leave

Parental leave

Hybrid/Remote working (50 days/yr)

Free parking on site

Employee discount

Job summary

TAGGED RESOURCES in Manchester is seeking an Assistant Merchandiser to join a well established textiles company with training and progression opportunities. You will support the merchandising team with the production of reports and general administration duties to improve output and efficiencies.

The role requires a proactive, detail‑oriented individual who can manage supplier and customer relationships and meet tight deadlines.

Qualifications

Proactive, detail‑oriented individual with strong communication skills.
Experience supporting merchandising teams with reporting and admin tasks.
Ability to manage deadlines and multiple priorities with accuracy.

Responsibilities

Weekly store order and sales data updates to aid forecasting.
Input data into forecasting systems including stock and sales metrics.
Process invoices and oversee supplier lead times and deliveries.
Generate reports and comments on stock availability, out-of-stock risks.
Maintain open orders and align with suppliers and merchandisers.
Liaise with internal teams, suppliers, and customers to ensure service levels.
Assist with new launches and visibility online with internal teams.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Organisational skills

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Location: Manchester

Type: Permanent

Industry: Textiles

Job Ref: TGN5578

The Company:

An exciting opportunity for an Assistant Merchandiser to join an established, Textiles company with an excellent reputation who offer training and progression opportunities.

You will support the merchandising team with the production of reports and general administration duties, to improve overall output and efficiencies.

The job role holder will be proactive individual, with attention to detail, accuracy & customer service. The Merchandise Team is an integral part of the organisation, and you will be an essential part of this team. A good working knowledge of managing supply base, critical paths and meeting strict deadlines are key to performing in this role.

Working as part of the Merchandise function you will be developing positive and professional working relationships with internal departments, suppliers, customers and key internal stakeholders.

Core Competencies:

Planning

Experienced at making decisions independently where necessary and accepting responsibility for those decisions.
Strong organisational skills to effectively manage multiple deadlines and workload.
Capacity to adapt to changing priorities and demands.

Training (Coaching & Development)

To take part in development activities to support the duties of the post or enhance personal development.

Systems

Knowledge of Microsoft word packages particularly Excel, ability to manipulate data and build reports.
Ability to adapt well to implementation of new systems

Communication

Experienced in communicating with suppliers, customers, line managers, peer groups and supporting departments through excellent verbal and written communication.
Ability to establish, develop and maintain supplier and customer relationships with professionalism

Behaviour

To always promote a positive and professional culture across areas of the business.

Key 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&AL report, sales/colour ranking, EOS stock declarations, rolling changes.
Checking allocation orders 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.

Benefits