Senior Merchandiser

Club L London

Manchester

Hybrid

GBP 55,000 - 75,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus scheme

25 days of annual leave (plus bank hol

Flexible working hours around core 10-

Job summary

Club L London is seeking a Senior Merchandiser to own category trading, inventory planning and open-to-buy across regional stock pools. You will partner with Buying, Design, Product, Marketing and Finance to drive sales, margin and stock health in a fast-paced, ecommerce-led environment.

You will lead forecasting, category strategy and inventory efficiency, shaping future product direction while championing process improvements across the merchandising function.

Qualifications

Extensive experience as a Senior Merchandiser within fashion retail or ecommerce.
Strong experience trading in a fast-paced, high-SKU environment.
Proven ownership of significant product categories with full commercial accountability.
Advanced forecasting, WSSI and Open-to-Buy management experience.
Experience managing inventory across multiple warehouse or regional stock pools.
Strong understanding of global inventory management and international fulfilment.
Excellent commercial judgement with quick decision-making.
Analytical skills with advanced Excel and BI capabilities.
Outstanding stakeholder management and ability to influence at all levels.
Experience coaching merchandising teams and driving capability.
Passion for improving processes, technology adoption and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

Own category trading performance with sales, margin, profit and stock targets.
Lead trading reviews and translate insights into actionable plans across functions.
Develop inventory strategies to optimise regional fulfilment and stock health.
Build intake strategies and support new product launches and hero lines.
Own forecasting, Open-to-Buy across categories and regions.
Collaborate with Product, Marketing and Insights to reflect market trends.
Drive cross-functional leadership and set best practices within merchandising.

Skills

Senior Merchandiser

Ecommerce trading

Forecasting

Open-to-Buy

BI reporting

Advanced Excel

Stakeholder management

Tools

BI software

Forecasting tools

Open-to-Buy systems

Job description

About Us

Club L London is the next-generation online fashion retailer for the forward-thinking woman. Conceptualised and crafted in-house and abroad, we specialise in accessible luxury and designs of unrivalled quality that flatter all figures.

From prom to occasion, maternity, bridal, and beyond, we deliver an elevated shopping experience that connects our global community of trend-setting consumers, influencers, and content creators with fresh collections dropping weekly.

The Role

As a Senior Merchandiser at Club L London, you will take full commercial ownership for a significant product area, leading the trading, planning and inventory strategy across multiple categories within one of the UK's fastest-growing global fashion brands.

Reporting to the Head of Merchandising, you will be responsible for delivering sales, margin and stock performance whilst partnering closely with Buying, Design, Product, Marketing, Ecommerce, Supply Chain and Finance to maximise commercial opportunities.

This role goes beyond traditional merchandising. You will combine strategic thinking with hands-on trading, using insight to influence decisions, optimise inventory investment and shape future product strategy across your area.

Alongside ownership of your categories, you will also champion strategic merchandising capabilities across the wider function, helping improve processes, tools, and ways of working as we continue to scale globally.

Key Responsibilities

Own Category Trading Performance

Take full accountability for the commercial performance of your product area, delivering sales, margin, profit, and stock productivity targets.
Lead weekly and daily trading reviews for your categories, identifying risks, opportunities, and clear trading actions.
Translate trading insight into actionable plans, working cross-functionally to deliver measurable commercial improvements.
Develop a deep understanding of customer behaviour, regional performance, and market trends to optimise trading decisions.
Maintain ownership of inventory health across your categories, including:
- High cover inventory
- Aged stock
- Slow-moving products
- Terminal and markdown stock
- Core replenishment lines.
Drive profitable performance across Ecommerce and Wholesale channels.
Partner closely with the Data & Insights team to continually improve reporting, dashboards, and trading visibility.

Planning & Commercial Strategy

Build and deliver seasonal category strategies aligned to business objectives.
Own forecasting, WSSI and Open-to-Buy for your product area.
Influence assortment architecture including:
- Option count
- Average depth
- Pricing architecture
- Seasonal phasing
- Country of Origin strategy
Apply strong commercial judgement when making decisions around:
- Rebuys
- Recolours
- Seasonal bring-backs.
- Option optimisation
Work with Product, Marketing, and Insights teams to ensure customer behaviour, market trends and campaign activity are reflected within planning.
Produce insightful pre-season, in-season and post-season analysis, translating data into clear commercial decisions.

Multi-Warehouse & Global Inventory Management

Optimise inventory across multiple regional stock pools.
Develop inventory strategies that maximise regional fulfilment whilst reducing split shipments and unnecessary cross-border fulfilment.
Drive allocation and stock balancing decisions that maximise customer availability whilst improving inventory efficiency.
Work closely with Supply Chain and Operations to ensure inventory plans align with warehouse capacity and fulfilment capability.
Develop an understanding of regional fulfilment economics, duty, freight costs and cost-to-serve to support profitable inventory decisions.

Drops & Intake Strategy

Partner with Buying and Product teams to deliver frequent product launches aligned to the trading calendar.
Build intake strategies that balance customer demand with supplier capacity and operational capability.
Support continuity planning, core replenishment and investment into hero products.
Ensure future intake plans support both commercial demand and operational execution.
Support major campaign launches, ensuring inventory is aligned to key trading milestones.

Forecasting & Open-to-Buy

Own forecasting across category and product level within a highly reactive trading environment.
Manage Open-to-Buy across your categories and regional stock pools.
Balance investment across newness, replenishment and depth to maximise availability whilst maintaining healthy inventory levels.
Ensure stock investment supports commercial priorities, financial targets, and international growth plans.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Act as a trusted commercial partner across Buying, Design, Product, Marketing, Ecommerce, Finance, Supply Chain and Operations.
Build strong cross-functional relationships, confidently influencing decisions through commercial insight and data.
Partner with regional stakeholders to identify market-specific opportunities and customer requirements.
Ensure campaigns, launches and promotional activity are fully supported through effective inventory planning.

Functional Leadership

In addition to owning your categories, you will act as the functional lead for key merchandising capabilities across the department. This responsibility will help strengthen our overall merchandising function, develop best practice, and build organisational capability.

Examples of functional ownership include:

Forecasting & WSSI
Core Product Performance
Product Lifecycle Management & Stock Health - Markdown & aged stock
AI & Automation & Merchandising Process Excellence
Intake & Supplier Planning – COO, CNY, and Fabric Planning

As the functional lead, you will:

Define and continuously improve best practice within your specialist area.
Develop tools, templates and frameworks that improve merchandising effectiveness.
Coach and support colleagues, sharing knowledge and raising capability across the team.
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to improve processes and ways of working.
Champion innovation, automation, and scalable solutions that support future business growth.
Act as the subject matter expert for your functional area, helping shape the future direction of merchandising at Club L London.

Operational Excellence

Continually identify opportunities to improve merchandising processes and ways of working.
Support improvements in automation, reporting, and operational efficiency.
Champion the use of AI and emerging technologies to improve planning, trading, and decision making.
Support the implementation of new merchandising systems and tools.
Help build scalable merchandising processes that support continued international growth.

Team Leadership

Lead, coach and develop Merchandisers, Assistant Merchandisers and Merchandising Admin Assistants within your product area.
Create a high-performance culture built on accountability, pace and commercial ownership.
Support workload planning and prioritisation to ensure focus remains on the highest-value activity.
Develop the commercial capability of the wider team through coaching, mentoring and knowledge sharing.
Drive adherence to merchandising critical paths and key planning milestones across your area.

About You

We are looking for someone who combines exceptional commercial instinct with analytical thinking and thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

You will bring:

Extensive experience as a Senior Merchandiser within a fast-paced fashion retailer.
Strong experience trading within an ecommerce-led, high-SKU and highly reactive environment.
Proven experience owning significant product categories with full commercial accountability.
Advanced forecasting, WSSI and Open-to-Buy management experience.
Experience managing inventory across multiple warehouse or regional stock pools.
Strong understanding of global inventory management and international fulfilment.
Excellent commercial judgement with the confidence to make decisions quickly.
Highly developed analytical skills with advanced Excel capability and experience using BI/reporting tools.
Outstanding stakeholder management with the ability to influence at all levels.
Experience coaching and developing merchandising teams.
A passion for improving ways of working, embracing technology and driving operational excellence.
The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.