Senior Womenswear Merchandiser (MAT Cover)

Crew Clothing Company

Kingston upon Thames

Hybrid

GBP 40,000 - 52,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (4 days in office, 1 day从)

Job summary

Crew Clothing Company is seeking a Senior Womenswear Merchandiser (MAT Cover) in Kingston upon Thames. This hybrid role requires four days in the office and one day from home, with a focus on driving profitable merchandise and stock planning.

You will plan and trade ranges, manage the MTO and planning cycles, and work closely with Product and Store teams to optimise margins across all channels. Strong Excel, numeracy and leadership skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

Strong Excel skills and numeracy are essential.
Experience in a Merchandiser role is required.
Commercial awareness and fashion retail interest are important.
Experience in people management is a plus.
Ability to handle heavy workload and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

Plan and trade ranges to maximise profit and cash sales.
Review performance and present in sign-off meetings with senior management.
Provide regular business reports and keep KPI budgets in view.
Develop stock plans, pricing strategies, and WSSI outputs.
Support the merchandising team and train others where needed.

Skills

Strong Excel skills

Experience within a Merchandiser role

Highly numerate

Good presentation skills

Knowledge of critical path and product

Commercially aware in fashion retail

Independent working style

Ability to manage heavy workload

Proactive and self-motivated

People management experience

Excellent organisational and problem‑s

Flexible, enthusiastic and confident

Tools

WSSI tool

Futura system

Job description

Senior Womenswear Merchandiser (MAT Cover)

Kingston-Upon-Thames (4 days in office, 1 day from home)
Full-TIme

At Crew Clothing, we believe clothes are about so much more than “just clothes”. Designed with the spirit of the south coast in every stitch, our crossed oars are a mark of timeless British style. These are clothes for life’s best moments.
We believe in collaboration, kindness and creativity, in celebrating our successes and championing our customer at every step of the way. From ’93 to now, people have been at the heart of everything we do. It’s in our name – Crew.

Purpose of the role:

Support the wider Merchandising team in all aspects of the Merchandising function. To maximise profit and cash sales through efficient stock management, potentializing sales and minimising markdown.To plan and trade each range ensuring that profits are potentialized, within agreed company objectives.

To ensure that there is a coherent communication strategy for both performance and product issues relating to the rest of the business.

Responsibilities:

Planning

To review historical performance and determine future product strategy, working closely with the Product team.
To present in commercial sign off and trade meetings to senior management.
To provide regular performance reviews across all Business channels.
To review Competitor activity with the Buyer to challenge future product strategy.
To plan internet and retail requirements, to propose ranging. To ensure that planning is reflected to best meet commercial needs.
To plan new season buy in line with both range, category and segment planning across all Business channels.
To determine optimum stock targets, bearing in mind buffer stocks, retail requirements and lead times.
To plan pricing strategy, working closely with the Product Team to secure overall margin targets.
To provide regular intake planning details to enable operations to plan resources effectively.
To manage WSSI to plan and trade department in line with KPI budgets.

Trading

To ensure that the Monday management pack is reconciled effectively, including validation of stock and sales forecasting.
To establish an ordering critical path, reflecting catalogue schedules and core seasonal issues.
To fully potentialise peak trading periods and develop well rounded plans to protect critical trading issues
To ensure that orders are placed in line with system forecasts and ordering cycles
To plan promotional activity to keep obsolete stocks in line and potentialise sales.
To understand and trade the MTO side of the business.

Commercial Awareness

To undertake regular store visits - ideally store visits should be undertaken at least every month.
To produce appropriate business reports after each visit and follow up action plans.
To undertake competitor visits on a regular basis, feedback any relevant points and put into place any required action plans.
To understand, prioritise and work to the critical dates and deadlines in both the planning and trading process.
To consistently deliver excellent standards of customer service.

Merchandising Systems

To develop an excellent working knowledge of all Merchandising systems including Wssi tool
To identify and propose improved working practices and updates to systems.
To action detailed integrity checks as necessary to ensure the efficient running of the department
To ensure the team maximise use of the Sales Reactive Allocation System and use to maximise retail sales and profit.

Management, training and development of team and self

To take responsibility for own personal development and to foster good working relationships across the Business.
To continually review processes and controls, initiating improvements in best practise as necessary.
To assist in the development and training of the merchandising team.
To manage the team on a day to day basis

Key Skills & Responsibilities:

Essential –