The Role
Reporting to the Head of Merchandising, the role of Merchandise Manager is pivotal in leading and delivering the Merchandise strategy across the business. The role is critical in driving commercial outcomes whilst ensuring operational efficiency.
Working collaboratively with other departments to deliver the Merchandising strategy aligned with the brand vision. You will be responsible for a key department such as Menswear, Womenswear, Outlets or Branch Merchandising whilst orchestrating the forward planning.
You Will
1. Create a merchandising strategy that aligns with our business goals and objectives
2. Set the financial plan for each future season
3. Work with finance ensuring budget alignments
4. Manage OTB for multiple seasons, communicating risk and opportunities to exec level
5. Drive process improvements across the teams
6. Work closely with the product teams to build a commercial range using data driven insight and knowledge
7. Drive trade focus across the Merchandising teams and channel leads
8. Lead WSSI focus for teams whilst managing inventory and stock levels across territory and channels
9. Collaborate with commercial departments to ensure timely product launches and promotions
10. Empower your team through coaching and development
11. Communicating financials to exec and the wider business
12. Supporting and influencing the space planning strategy
13. Deputising for head of merchandising
You Are
14. Currently in a senior Merchandising position within a fast based fashion business
15. Highly analytical and able to translate to key messages
16. Able to demonstrate a commercial awareness to support decision making
17. An excellent communicator to all levels
18. Capable of delivering on KPIs with a proven track record
19. Experienced in inventory management and branch merchandising
20. Ideally experienced across multiple fashion categories including Menswear, Womenswear and Accessories
21. A strong leader with evidence of coaching and developing teams
22. An advanced user of MS Office suite, in particular Excel
Working for Superdry has never been so rewarding…
23. 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, we also offer a holiday buying scheme
24. An additional day off to celebrate your Birthday
25. Family is massively important to us, so we have a broad range of family-friendly working policies in place, including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
26. Company Pension scheme
27. All employees are covered by our Life Assurance policy whilst working at Superdry. We feel it’s important to offer protection for your family and loved ones in such a situation and to support this we offer life assurance cover which pays a lump sum equivalent either twice or four times your annual salary
28. A big staff discount – naturally. Because we know that you love to wear Superdry, you’ll benefit from a 50% discount in store and online
29. Our Head Office is home to our very own store for staff only where you can treat yourself to heavily discounted sample stock
30. A health cash plan is open to all employees.
31. Flexible working and core working hours between 10am – 4pm to help you achieve that all-important work-life balance
32. Access to onsite parking and as part of our sustainable development goals, we have a selection of electrical car parking points freely available to staff.
33. A range of learning and development materials to help you in your career and grow with us
34. We like to give back, so we allow our employees time off for volunteering work
35. A global employee assistance plan in place that you can access anytime you want - it’s free and confidential
36. You’ll also have access to a Cycle To Work Scheme
37. A range of local discounts with businesses across Gloucestershire
At Superdry, everyone has a voice and we want to hear it. We create environments where individuality can flourish and is celebrated as part of who we are as a brand. We’re incredibly proud that over 90% of our people feel strongly that they can be themselves at work.
We want to meet people with varied backgrounds because we understand that diversity of thought encourages new ideas to thrive, fuelling creativity and enabling us to do better work. We want to build a team which represents a variety of backgrounds, styles, perspectives, and skills; we hire people based on their merit and potential.
We also welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Superdry and will always accommodate it where possible.