Job Description
Function/Region: Buying & Merchandising UK&ROI
Job Family: Merchandising
Location: Head Office- Street, Somerset BA16 0EQ
Main Purpose:
The role is responsible for working closely with the merchandising and retail / franchise field teams in Europe and UK to maximise store performance through grading and the critical assessment of performance analysis whilst demonstrating great communication skills. Managing and leading the new store process.
Core Accountabilities:
1. Build effective relationships across merchandise and field teams to drive performance through consistency of process and best practice.
2. Drive store performance, by making strong commercial decisions in line with regional strategy by identifying stores that are trading at a variance to plan, understand the reasons as to why and take relevant actions.
3. Grade stores based on regional gender sales plans and re-grade as appropriate depending on the latest trading activities in order to maximise stores sales potential.
4. Collaborate with retailing operations, field teams and logistics to manage the process for opening new stores, refits, relocates and closed stores to ensure that operational sales targets are reached ...