Senior Merchandiser, Menswear

Reiss Limited; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fashion retailer seeks a Senior Merchandiser for Menswear to drive product planning and meet key business KPIs. This strategic role requires strong analytical skills and market awareness to maximize sales and profitability, while leading a dynamic merchandising team.

Benefits

Competitive salary and company bonus

Up to 65% employee discount

Access to exclusive sample sales

Enhanced parental leave policies

Electric Vehicle scheme via Octopus Energy

Cycle to Work programme

Season ticket travel loan

Plus further workplace benefits

Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage KPIs and drive profit.
• Passionate about delivering a stylish and profitable range.

Responsibilities

• Manage the planning and buying process, ensuring alignment with financial plans.
• Lead weekly trading meetings and provide commercial analysis.
• Own markdown and clearance plans to achieve stock targets.

Skills

Analytical skills

Time management

Team orientation

Job description

As part of our dynamic Menswear Merchandising team, you’ll play a critical role in driving the commercial success of our product categories. As Senior Merchandiser, you'll be responsible for the end-to-end management of product planning, trading, and performance to deliver against agreed budgets and key business KPIs. You'll use your strong analytical skills and market awareness to create compelling assortments that meet customer demand while maximising sales, profitability, and brand positioning.

Who you are

• Proven ability to drive profit and manage all KPIs
• Product focused with a passion for delivering a stylish, new and profitable global range
• Proactively sets goals and manages multiple priorities, keeping Merchandising Manager informed
• Forward thinking, recognises longer term priorities for the team and department, following actions and projects through to completion
• Well organised with time management skills
• Self-motivated and team oriented

What you’ll be doing

• Managing the planning and buying process identifying areas of opportunity for future seasons and ensuring alignment with financial plans
• Developing and presenting sales and buy plans by group, including attribute analysis and sales ranking pareto
• Ensuring the collection is balanced by group and built commercially through the grades across channels & regions
• Leading weekly trading meetings for categories and driving trading opportunities through the season by providing insight and commercial analysis – product and channels
• Managing the category WSSI’s ensuring alignment with top line financial WSSI
• Own the divisional OTB, responding to trade to action rebuys and cancellations
• Deputising for Merchandising Manager in key meetings with the leadership team
• Ensure line cards are set up and maintained for all continuity styles, ensuring sales to stock ratios are balanced to maximise future sales plans and providing sales, intake and stock forecasts in line with business requirements
• Own the markdown, promotional and clearance plans to ensure seasonal terminal stock targets are achieved

What we’ll do for you

• Competitive salary and company bonus
• Up to 65% employee discount
• Access to exclusive sample sales
• Enhanced parental leave policies
• Electric Vehicle scheme via Octopus Energy
• Cycle to Work programme
• Season ticket travel loan
• Plus further workplace benefits

If you want to start your story at Reiss as our Senior Merchandiser for Menswear, don’t miss out - apply now!

We recognize the importance and power of diversity within our business and, as such, we ensure that our people processes are fair, transparent and promote equality of opportunity for all candidates.

It is our pledge that candidates will not be discriminated against on the grounds of gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, marital status, age, race, colour, ethnic background, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, religious or similar belief. Every individual will be treated with respect.

We know that some people won’t apply for a role unless they feel they meet all of the requirements listed. We want you to know that finding people who will add to our inspirational culture and have a learning mindset is incredibly important to us. Even if you feel you don’t tick all the boxes, we’d still like to hear from you.