Merchandise Assistant or Associate Planner (12m FTC)

Gymshark; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fitness brand in the UK is seeking an Assistant Planner for a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role involves managing product inventory, analyzing sales trends, and forecasting future performance. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, advanced knowledge of Excel, and effective communication abilities. This position offers various benefits including a funded healthcare plan, gym membership, and a flexible benefits program.

Benefits

Funded Healthcare benefit

25 days holiday, additional day for your birthday & Bank Holidays pro rata

Contributory Employer pension scheme

Flexible benefits programme

Gymshark Employee Discount

Access to High Street cashback and discounts

Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support

Enhanced Family Leave package

Life Assurance

Responsibilities

• Support Planning Lead with sales and inventory plans.
• Analyze prior results for growth opportunities.
• Deliver business updates on trends and variances.
• Prepare sales, margin, and inventory forecasts.

Skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to manage multiple work streams/projects with tight deadlines

Strong technical aptitude, including advanced competency in Microsoft Excel

Job description

Join our team as an Assistant Planner on a 12-month fixed-term contract and play a key role in managing one of the company’s largest financial assets: our product inventory. In this dynamic role, you’ll support your manager with data entry, analysis, and allocation across your category, while learning to shape financial strategy by interpreting sales trends, inventory insights, and departmental goals. Partnering closely with Assistant Merchants, you’ll help forecast future product performance, analyze in‑season results, develop cross‑channel strategies, and ensure products are distributed effectively across regions and channels. This is an exciting opportunity to build foundational planning skills and make a meaningful impact on the business.

You must have allocation experience to be successful in this role.

What you’ll be doing

Pre‑Season

Support the Planning Lead in building sales, margin, and inventory plans across departments, styles, and colors.

Analyze prior results to identify growth opportunities, missed sales, and key financial drivers.

Assess product opportunities and risks using financial and trend metrics (IMU, AUR, AUC, margin).

Recommend style and color counts and product flow to maximize margin and productivity.

Contribute to financial strategy presentations for grow/maintain/decline categories and create quarterly investment review materials.

Maintain pre‑season forecasting tools.

In‑Season

Deliver daily/weekly business updates, highlighting trends and variances to forecast.

Flag risks and opportunities and propose adjustments for current and future quarters.

Prepare sales, margin, and inventory forecasts; support monthly OTB meetings with receipt flow, stock‑to‑sales analysis, and pricing recommendations.

Monitor core style performance and ensure accurate allocation and in‑stock levels across stores.

Manage weekly style‑level sales plans to inform department forecasts.

Support markdown and promotional strategies with pricing and margin scenarios.

What you’ll need

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple work streams/projects with tight deadlines.
• Strong technical aptitude, including advanced competency in Microsoft Excel and ability to quickly master new applications and systems.

CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 2nd Dec 2025

Belonging at Gymshark.

We’re an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to finding reasonable adjustments* for candidates with specific needs or have a disability during our recruitment process, and all applicants will be considered fairly and equally. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. *If you’d like to request a reasonable adjustment please email [e-mail].

About Us

We’re here to unite the conditioning community. We believe that putting the sweat in today, prepares us for tomorrow. So, we give people the tools they need to reach further, go faster, be stronger. We celebrate those who show up – for themselves – to be their physical or mental best, whatever that means for them. It’s what we want for our community, and our team. A team that’s growing rapidly around the world. A collective of talented individuals working together to invent Gymshark’s future. Our plans are ambitious, and we’re looking for people who want to join us for the ride – our growth will be your growth.

The perks

Standard benefits include:

• Funded Healthcare benefit
• 25 days holiday, additional day for your birthday & Bank Holidays pro rata
• Contributory Employer pension scheme
• Flexible benefits programme – including salary sacrifice EV scheme, dental insurance, cycle to work, tech scheme, holiday trading
• Gymshark Employee Discount & long service awards
• Access to High Street cashback and discounts
• Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support
• Enhanced Family Leave package
• Life Assurance

Office location specific benefits include (IQ):

• Gym Membership to The Lifting Club (LC)
• Onsite lunch provision & coffee bars

Office location specific benefits include (LDN):

• Funded multi‑site fitness membership

Note: The bonus program and benefits have certain eligibility requirements. Gymshark reserves the right to amend these programs in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.