Digital Assistant Merchandiser - Partner Program

JD Sports Fashion; Bury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dedicated professional to join their dynamic team. In this role, you will collaborate with brand partners to enhance product offerings and optimize sales strategies across various channels. Your insights will directly influence the onboarding process and overall performance, ensuring the company remains at the forefront of the sports fashion market. This is a fantastic opportunity for those who are passionate about retail and eager to contribute to a thriving, people-led organization. Join a team that values innovation and operational excellence, and be part of a journey towards global leadership in the sports and outdoor industry.

Benefits

Staff discount on JD Group products

Personal development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong organizational and time-management skills are essential.
• Good knowledge of Excel and experience with merchandiser software is required.

Responsibilities

• Drive product assortment forward with brand partners and enhance onboarding efficiency.
• Review sales trends and propose actions to increase sales performance.

Skills

Excel

Merchandiser software

Organization skills

Time-management skills

Commercial brand awareness

Job description

JD Sports- Head Office, Warwick House, Bury, Bury, United Kingdom Req #459

10 April 2025

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

• Location – BL9 8RR
• Working rota – Monday - Friday
• Working hours – 40 hours

Key Objective:

• Work with our brand partners to drive forward our Partner Program assortment of products across the active markets. Create efficiencies within the onboarding process and feed insights into the Buying Team.

Planning

• Be aware of the seasonal onboarding calendar throughout the year, working with the teams to drive the product range onboarding and performance.

Trading

• Review daily and weekly sales trends, identifying areas of weakness, proposing and taking action to increase sales.
• Monitor live sales to identify fast sellers on the day and take action as required to maximise sales.
• Identify underperforming lines and categories and propose actions to improve sell through.
• Work with the brand partners to onboard products to the JD channels as fast as possible.
• Work with Studio Teams to ensure all imagery has been processed.
• Select products to feature on mailers and get sign off from buyers, before briefing Marketing team.
• Review product attributes to ensure that site navigation, filters and collections are optimised working with the copywriters to achieve.
• Continually review merchandising of site searches, navigation and listings and proposing actions where required to maximise sales.
• Review the new in list ensuring the site is representative of key products.
• Review top on site searches and action merchandising rules to improve results and conversion.
• Monitor intake daily and weekly to make sure all products are going online in a timely manner.
• Work closely with the core merchandising team and marketing.

Teamwork

• Reports to the Digital Merchandise Manager
• Establish working relationships with Buying & Merchandising, Digital and Marketing teams.
• Assist the Partner Program Trading Manager to drive the channels and deliver agreed sales targets.
• Apply best practice.
• Build strong relationships with B&M team.
• Identify opportunities.
• Identify threats, and look to resolve.
• Become an expert in the use of online systems/tools.

Skills needed

• Good knowledge of Excel
• Experience working with merchandiser software
• Strong organisation and time-management skills
• Commercial brand awareness

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.