At Seasalt we live and breathe our product and are proud of the exceptional quality and level of care we take in design and sourcing, to deliver beautiful garments which are loved by our customers. Based on the Cornish coast, we're a multi-channel lifestyle brand with over 70 shops across the UK & Ireland, over 400 wholesale stockists and a growing online business. As an Assistant Merchandiser, you will play a key role in driving the planning, forecasting and trading of each season’s range using your strong analysis skills. Supporting our Merchandisers, you’ll help achieve agreed sales and profit targets and occasionally deputise for them. In this collaborative role, you’ll work with the Product team, including our Assistant Buyers to support the creation of each seasaon’s range and ensuring purchase orders for bulk production are accurate and in line with agreed critical path. Please note, as part of our Seasalt Connected approach to ways of working, this role will be based flexibly across our Cornwall head office locations (minimum 40% of working week) and remotely within the UK. You'll help us by: Supporting the Merchandiser by collating information for the Range Plan for all sales channels, ensuring the range plan is accurately maintained and submitted for company roll ups in a timely manner. Ensuring all relevant tasks are completed in line with the Critical Path. Working with the Merchandiser to understand and actualise commitment, sales, markdown and open to buy on the category cards. Proactively identifying blocks of product to create forecasting models, using line monitors to make recommendations for new orders or rephasing of current commitments as required. Ensuring all purchase orders are accurate and reflect the required level of commitment, the correct sizing and the desired intake dates, updating department ratios where necessary from size analysis. Assessing channel performance, key driving categories and best and worst selling lines and suggest appropriate course of action to Merchandiser to maximise sales. Creating price change models (either markdown or promotional) and reviewing fabric commitment under the supervision of our Merchandisers, as a reaction to current trade. Working with the Merchandiser to build and update relevant seasonal reports. Collating all necessary information for monitoring the departmental margin. Assessing sales (by option), reviewing intake of stock and distribution in line with requirements. The skills you'll be sharing with the team: Experience of working in Merchandising or a department with transferable skills. Experience of running and trading a department and supporting peers, ideally within a retail brand. Highly analytical and commercially aware with a strong understanding of competitors and customer Experience of motivating individuals or a team to achieve results Strong planning and strategy development skills Good IT skills – particularly Excel Experience of data analysis and reporting Strong commercial aptitude and customer focus Excellent communication skills and ability to influence senior management Problem solving skills – able to overcome issues, propose solutions and make commercial decisions Ability to perform under pressure and operate in a fast past environment and to deadlines Good negotiator Why we hope you’ll love working with us: The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We don't just want to attract the best and brightest people to come and work with us, we want you to stay and grow with us. As well as doing everything we can to support your development professionally, we believe encouraging personal growth is just as important. So you can fulfil your passion and purpose, not just at work but in life, we offer a range of benefits that are designed to enhance your career and wellbeing: Salary: £26,750-£29,000 depending on experience (Band 2) 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service Attractive 50% employee discount Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions Life assurance programme Enhanced family leave policies Flexible working opportunities with our hybrid working approach Learning and Development opportunities Do Good Things with our two days per year paid volunteering opportunities Employee networks to develop and provide support to our people, including the Inclusion Network 100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people – they're what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer, we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles. We aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives - diversity of thought helps us to grow – so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. We're happy to help with any adjustments to our recruitment process and beyond. Just drop us an email at [email protected] Close date: 22nd July IND-240 Apply Now