Merchandising Financial Planner

QVC; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join QVC UK as a Merchandise Financial Planner and play a pivotal role in shaping our commercial strategy. This position involves creating budgets, conducting financial analysis, and providing insights that drive sales and profitability in a dynamic retail environment. You'll collaborate closely with various teams to influence key commercial decisions and contribute to the future of QVC UK. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills, a finance-related degree, and significant experience in retail.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards package

Paid time off

Employee assistance program

Parental leave

Paid volunteer hours

Company discounts

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a retail head office or similar environment.
• Ability to adjust communication based on the audience.
• Strong technical skills in analytics and financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Create & consolidate Commercial Financial Budgets and Forecasts.
• Provide strategic analysis and support for commercial initiatives.
• Develop tools and maintain processes for Financial Planning.

Skills

Analytical skills

Financial modelling

Technical skills

Business acumen

Education

Degree in Business, Finance, or related field

Tools

Excel

Financial systems

Job description

The Opportunity

Join QVC UK as a Merchandise Financial Planner and play a pivotal role in shaping our commercial strategy. You'll partner with Commercial, Executive, and Finance teams to deliver robust budgets, forecasts, and actionable insights that increase sales, profitability, and inventory optimisation. Reporting to the Manger of commercial finance, this is your chance to influence decisions at the highest level and help create QVC's future.

Who We Are

QVC empowers shoppers with knowledge and shares insights in a lively, engaging way. We offer an ever-changing collection of familiar brands and fresh new products – from home and fashion to beauty, electronics and jewellery – and we connect shoppers to interesting personalities, engaging stories and award-winning customer service.

QVC International brings the QVC shopping experience to millions of people in Germany, Austria, Japan, the U.K., Ireland and Italy.QVC International reaches 124 million homes via 10 television networks and reaches millions more via multiple streaming services, websites, mobile apps and social pages. QVC International has team members in the U.K., Germany, Japan, Italy, Poland and China.

Your Impact

• You will create & consolidate QVC UK’s Commercial Financial Budgets and Forecasts;

• You'll provide strategic analysis and support; and closely partner with the Commercial teams, Executive & Finance to deliver Budget through Sales, Profitability, Productivity, and Inventory optimisation.

• You will design, develop and maintain the tools and processes necessary to support Financial Planning & Category Merchandising at QVCUK

• You will regularly review Forecasting performance to increase accuracy

• You will develop an accurate and usable Contribution Margin Model and integrate that information into Commercial decision making

• You will support Commercial initiatives & capital expenditure proposals by providing analysis and profitability modelling.

• You will support commercial initiatives and capital expenditure proposals with analysis

• You will work with all levels of leadership within the organisation, providing analysis, insight, and recommendations to drive action.

What You Bring

• You'll have a significant experience in a retail head office or similar environment.

• You will need to be adaptable to your audience and adjust accordingly, whether you are speaking to teams in finance or in the commercial world.

• You will have advanced analytical, modelling, and technical skills (Excel, financial systems).

• You will have Strong business acumen and the ability to influence at all levels.

• You have a Degree in Business, Finance, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

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JOB PURPOSE

If you enjoy being a part of a team, creating experiences and delighting customers, you’ll love it here. If you’re excited about retail, media, social, live streaming, technology, customer service, design and more, you’ll find amazing projects to work on. If you want to grow professionally and learn every day, you ’ ll thrive with us . If you appreciate a company committed to inclusion and belonging for all, you’ll be amazed at what’s available for our team members . We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package including competitive compensation, paid time off, employee assistance program, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, company discounts and much more. Best of all, working with QVC Group means friendly teams, ambitious projects and fast-moving careers!

For QVC Group, our commitment to inclusion and belonging for all is deeply rooted in Our Principles. They call on us to Drive Progress, Act With Empathy, Be Brave, Embrace the Future, and Do What’s Right so that everyone can thrive. We are committed to ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. As an equal opportunity employer, QVC Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process. If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at [e-mail] for assistance. QVC UK is a Disability Confident employer and operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme. For any UK based roles - if you’d like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this on the application form.

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