Junior Merchandiser

Dusk; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holidays + bank holidays

Hybrid working: 3 days in the office,

Bonus Scheme

Staff Discount Scheme on DUSK products

Death in service

Company pension (3% employer)

Job summary

DUSK, a £200m home and lifestyle brand, seeks a Junior Merchandiser to join its Leeds team. You will help plan merchandising strategies, support with new processes, and analyze sales trends to shape future ranges and stock.

You’ll collaborate with the wider product team to ensure timely stock onboarding and aligned pricing and promotions. Ideal candidates have prior assistant/junior merchandiser experience, strong Excel skills, and a data-driven approach to decision making.

Qualifications

• Experience as an established Assistant Merchandiser, Junior Merchandiser or similar.
• Strong computer literacy skills - especially in Excel.
• Analytical skills - confident in working with and extract insight from data.

Responsibilities

• Help plan and develop Merchandising strategies balancing customer expectation and profitability.
• Support with implementing new procedures with the Senior Merchandising Team.
• Analyze and report sales data, customer reactions and channel trends to anticipate product needs and plan ranges and stock.
• Build and maintain a library of historical data.
• Work to KPIs to optimise sales volume and profitability of product areas.
• Collaborate with Merchandising, Operations & Logistics to ensure timely onboarding and arrival of stock.
• Own departmental line cards, re-forecast monthly and build future sales plans.
• Proactively analyse sales data to influence buying meetings and actions to optimise margin.

Skills

Excel

Analytical skills

Time management

Decision making

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team as Junior Merchandiser working in Leeds as part of our Product/ Merchandising team.

Salary: Competitive Salary + excellent benefits package

Role Responsibilities:

Help to plan and develop Merchandising strategies that balance customer expectation & profitability alongside our rapid expansion plan

Support with implementing new procedures and processes alongside the Senior Merchandising Team

Partake in the analysis & reporting of current sales data, customers reactions and channel trends in order to anticipate product needs and plan future ranges & stock

Help build & maintain a comprehensive library of historical data

Work to key performance indicators helping to optimise the sales volume and profitability of designated product areas according to the business plan

Pro-active involvement with planning future ranges in conjunction with wider product team.

Actively involved with the monitoring of slow sellers & proposal of price reductions as necessary including the roll-up of mid and end-of-season sale plans

Work collaboratively with the team helping to monitor stock movement and help propose intake re-phasing as necessary based on the forward seasonal plan

Collaboratively work with the wider Merchandising, Operations & Logistics teams to ensure timely onboarding & arrival of stock with our various partners

Set the department strategy and option framework to ensure a balanced and commercial product range

Support the merchandiser on maintaining department WSSIs, stock and sales plans, ensuring stock is managed to targets

Take full ownership of departmental line cards, re-forecasting on a monthly basis and building out future sales plans

Proactively analyse sales data and trends and use data to influence decisions in buying meetings

Proactively monitor sales and stock in order to take action to optimise sales and margin performance - ensuring team react to sales trend

Manage order placement and intake to ensure on time product launches and awareness of product lead times, to maximise trading opportunities

Maintain strong relationships with suppliers to enable flexibility and trading

Take full ownership of critical paths and communicate key issues to the wider team.

Recommendations on pack size, MOQ/MOV

About You

Experience as an established Assistant Merchandiser, Junior Merchandiser or similar

Strong computer literacy skills - especially in Excel

Analytical skills - confident in working with and extract insight from data

Strong decision making, time management skills and able to prioritise workload

Good commercial knowledge - specifically on wider marketplace and broader business

Team player attitude

About us

DUSK is a £200m home and lifestyle brand. We are an award winning and fast-growing e-commerce brand in the home and garden sector, known for innovation and high-quality products.

Since 2016, our dedicated team at our Leeds HQ have been designing stylish homeware and furniture at affordable prices. DUSK is an online-first brand, and by designing and sourcing everything ourselves, we’re able to curate our own collections and pass on the savings directly to our customers.

Whether you are seeking signature furniture pieces or the perfect finishing accents, our curated ranges deliver accessible elegance to every living space, empowering you to realise your ideal home vision.

As a trusted British brand, our team in our Doncaster warehouses work hard behind the scenes to make sure every order is carefully packed and delivered on time.

25 days holidays (plus bank holidays) as standard, plus additional days based on length of service

Option to buy additional holidays (by a maximum of 5 days)

Hybrid working: 3 days in the office, 2 work from home (if applicable)

Bonus Scheme

Staff Discount Scheme on DUSK products

Death in service

Company pension (3% employer contributions)

Flexible start and finish times (if applicable)

Access to employee assistance programme through ‘Spark’, including 24/7 helpline, virtual GP and counselling services to support your health and wellbeing.

Excellent Career progression and training opportunities

Opportunities to partake in company days

Due to the high volume of applications, on some occasions we are unable to reply to each individual applicant. If you do not hear from us within four weeks, then unfortunately your application has not been successful.

We will keep your application on file for six months and we will consider you for future roles within the organisation during this time. Your information will be deleted after six-months. If you wish to be considered for roles after this point, then you will need to re-apply.