Merchandising Admin Assistant

JR United Kingdom; Basildon; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Merchandising Admin Assistant to support the Product team with essential administrative tasks. This role involves liaising with suppliers, managing purchase orders, and analyzing sales trends to support the merchandising process. The ideal candidate will have strong organizational and analytical skills, with at least one year of relevant experience and a solid understanding of forecasting tools.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Flexible workplace (3 days a week in office)

33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays)

Qualifications

• At least 1 year working in a similar role.
• Previous retail experience is preferred.
• Can demonstrate understanding of forecasting tools.

Responsibilities

• Raising and keeping track of all purchase orders.
• Liaising with suppliers to ensure timely deliveries.
• Running & updating sales and stock reports weekly.

Skills

Organisational skills

Numerical skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Job description

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We're looking for a Merch Admin Assistant to join our wonderful Product team ?

Our Merchandising Admin Assistant will be there to support with admin tasks, as well as working alongside Merchandisers, Buyers and Designers to deliver balanced and exciting ranges for all areas of the Adanola Brand. You’ll be integral to the day-to-day running of the Merch team through high levels of organisation and a great work ethic. You will be providing administrative support to the merchandising team by actively analysing sales trends, monitoring deliveries and maintaining stock levels.

About your responsibilities:

• Raising and keeping track of all purchase orders
• Liaising with suppliers on a weekly basis to ensure deliveries are on time and effectively communicating any changes to buying and merchandising teams
• Liaising with the warehouse and forwarders to manage the inbounding of stock
• Managing internal critical path – updating regularly & communicating any delays/issues with wider team & suppliers
• Key point of contact for suppliers
• Running & updating sales and stock reports weekly
• Confidently understands forecasting tools to suggest re-buys and rephasing
• Proactively contribute to department trade each week from analysing reports

About you:

• At least 1 year working in a similar role
• Previous retail experience is preferred
• Can demonstrate understanding of forecasting tools
• Excellent administration skills and experience working with Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and Outlook
• Strong numerical and analytical skills
• Well organised with time management skills
• Attention to detail and strong communication skills

Why Adanola?

We're on a mission to becoming everybody's everyday uniform and we need great people with great attitudes to help work towards that. Adanola genuinely cares about the people we employ and as we grow will continue to always put People, Product and Profit, in that order. We're just getting started so you need to be ready to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in but in the most exciting and challenging way.

Some of the benefits we offer our employees:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Flexible workplace (3 days a week in our Manchester office)
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays)