Merchandising Admin Assistant

the fold; City of Westminster; Sur place; GBP 24 000 - 32 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

25 days holidays (including bankHols)

Pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Summer Friday hours

Eye Care

Résumé du poste

The Fold is seeking a Merchandising Admin Assistant to support the Merchandising team by managing intake and stock placement, and by using initiative to run analyses that inform buying and trading decisions. You will collaborate across Buying, Operations, E-commerce and retail teams.

You will own intake, monitor delivery schedules, coordinate with warehouse/3PL, support markdowns and promotions, and help maintain product data and pricing across systems.

Qualifications

• Excellent Excel skills and strong analytical ability.
• Highly organised with multitasking capability.
• Strong teamwork and communication across departments.
• Detail-oriented with proactive problem-solving.
• Ability to interpret weekly trade reports and provide insights.

Responsabilités

• Own the Intake process and ensure stock arrives within the agreed window.
• Produce and interpret weekly trade reports for the commercial team.
• Manage new season product launches on-site and with retail teams.
• Maintain product information across systems and ensure pricing accuracy.
• Collaborate with E-commerce to trade products on site and support markdowns.
• Support junior merchandiser with promotions.
• Coordinate stock allocation to stores with Operations and Logistics.

Connaissances

Excel

Analytical thinking

Communication

Team collaboration

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Outils

Shopify

Range planning system

Description du poste

Working with the Merchandising team to provide crucial administrative support, the Merchandising Admin Assistant will manage tock intake whilst ensuring stock is in the right place to optimise demand. Using initiative to create and run analyses to make product buying and trading decisions, the Merchandising Admin Assistant will work collaboratively with multiple teams across Buying, Operations, E-commerce and retail teams.

Intake & Stock:

• Owns Intake process and responsible for ensuring stock arrives within agreed window.
• Manages the delivery schedule and communicates changes to the wider product team.
• Works alongside Operations & Logistics team to monitor Intake into the warehouse.
• Allocates stock to our stores, and actions stock recalls working with retail team.
• Manages product pre-order on the site, working alongside customer care.

Reporting & Trading:

• Produces & interprets the weekly trade reports, sharing findings with wider commercial team.
• Produces reporting for seasonal lessons learned, collaborating with buying team.
• Responsible for ensuring stock is in the right place to optimise demand, using trade reports to make decisions.
• Supports the wider team with seasonal ad-hoc analysis, using initiative to create relevant reports.
• Maintenance of Merchandising teams working documents and processes, including system maintenance.
• Works alongside retail team to ensure Shopify reporting is accurate.
• Collaborates with E-commerce team to trade product on site, providing analysis and data to inform decisions.
• Supports Junior Merchandiser to run markdowns and promotions.

Product Range:

• Manage new season product launches on the site and with our retail teams in store.
• Manage new season sizing ratios, working with production.
• Responsible for maintaining delivery information in the Range plan.
• Key point of contact for retail team, communicating any changes to product and pricing.
• Maintains accuracy of product information across in house and 3PL systems, carrying out regular checks.

We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example - never compromising on our quality. We strive to uphold a values based working culture with five key principle across the business:

• Be Humbitious: Be ambitious for yourself and The Fold in a humble way - don't be a diva.
• Wrap it up with a bow on it: Be a completer finisher, be able to trust others to take on a job completely and fully, and earn that same trust yourself.
• Be Empowered: Take on responsibility, share your views confidently but kindly, feel ownership, take pride in results,
• Fold Gold Standard: Quality and professionalism, don't just 'let it go', pride ourselves on attention to detail and excellence in everything we do, deliver results.
• Embrace, pace, progress and adventure: Know that to fully embrace our ambition and our challenges, this will mean stepping out of your comfort zone - get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Qualifications

• A great team player with a positive, can-do attitude, who is committed to learning more and investing in their Merchandising career
• Highly organised, with great multitasking skills
• Demonstrate meticulous attention to detail
• Strong analytical skills with a strong knowledge of using Excel.
• Collaborative approach and ability to build relationships across various departments
• Show excellent ability to communicate effectively and work well in a fun and busy environment.
• Enthusiastic and flexible in response to an ever-evolving business and ad-hoc requests and tasks
• Be capable of decision making and able to use initiative
• Want to bring whole self to the business to be a problem solver, team player and a supportive attitude to the team

Benefits

• 25 days of holidays (including bank holidays)
• Buy additional holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Yearly gift voucher of £1,250
• A friends and family discount policy with 50% off full retail price
• Bike to work scheme, save on the cost of bikes and equipment
• Eye Care.
• Summer Friday hours
• Fully stocked snack cupboards, fruits and coffee & tea
• Regular Social Events - including summer and Christmas parties
• Volunteering

About: The Fold is an award-winning womenswear brand with a mission to empower women to realise their ambitions. The brand creates beautiful, high quality collections for women to feel their confident best. The Fold has a wide reaching international audience and has dressed some of the world's most influential female leaders and innovators.