Role title: Junior Merchandiser
Reports to: Merchandiser
Purpose: The Junior Merchandiser will work closely with the Merchandiser, supported by the Assistant Merchandiser, to prepare and analyse the commercial data required for range planning, consumer and trade buying, and in-season trading.
This role is designed to develop strong commercial and analytical capability, supporting trading and buying decisions across the business. All final trading, buying and stock decisions are made in partnership with, and signed off by, the Merchandiser.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting & Analysis
Prepare, update and maintain core trading, stock and sales reports for the Merchandiser and wider business, ensuring accuracy, relevance and data integrity.
Assess data to validate accuracy and relevance, highlighting anomalies or risks.
Analyse performance data to identify trends, risks and opportunities, summarising insights to support commercial decision-making.
Set up and maintain product-level analysis attributes to enable effective reporting.
Support the Merchandiser with weekly (Monday) sales and stock reporting.
Own the preparation and weekly update of stock and sales reports, working with the Merchandiser to interpret performance and agree actions.
Prepare Consumer and Consignment sales reports, building ongoing analysis of performance and distributing insights to the wider business.
In-Season Trading
Provide ad-hoc reporting and analysis to support in-season trading decisions across Consumer, Trade and Consignment channels.
Work closely with Ecommerce and Marketing teams to support price changes, product status updates and promotional activity.
Support the Merchandiser in building off-price trade packages.
Be proactive in analysing performance and suggesting gender and category-level ranges for promotional activity and markdown, with guidance and sign-off from the Merchandiser.
Actively propose trading actions, including markdown and promotional suggestions, supported by performance analysis and aligned with commercial objectives.
Work alongside the Merchandising team to ensure the accuracy of data within MNP.
Regularly review stock and sales performance across all channels, escalating risks and opportunities to the Merchandiser in a timely manner.
Range Planning
Prepare seasonal option plans by category, age and gender, monitoring progress against plan throughout the range build process.
Support the Merchandiser in the development of seasonal range plans.
Provide trend and historical performance analysis, including seasonal best sellers, to support Buying and Design teams in making informed decisions.
Work with the Merchandiser, Buying Team and Trade Sales Manager to support seasonal buy quantity decisions, using trade best sellers, historical sales performance and sell-through as guidance.
Support in-season monitoring of spend against OTB, highlighting risks and opportunities and proposing adjustments where appropriate.
Build and maintain PO templates to support the Buying team in placing seasonal supplier purchase orders.
Prepare size ratio recommendations for Consumer, Trade and Consignment purchases (including additional in-season and pre-order requirements), based on historical performance and channel behaviour.
Ad-Hoc & Operational Support
Maintain and improve reporting data sources to support routine and ad-hoc analysis, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency.
Support the set-up of new product codes, descriptions and barcodes in agreed formats.
Provide cover for the Assistant Merchandiser when required, including sales reporting, stock management, booking deliveries and replenishment support.
General responsibilities
All employees are required to ensure that they:
Treat all colleagues, customers, suppliers and fans with the upmost dignity and respect.
Act as a role model, uphold and project the company values in all that you do.
Communicate and collaborate effectively with other team members and provide feedback where necessary.
Maintain records as appropriate and ensure all related documents are filed in an orderly manner.
Maintain and update records relating to working practices and procedures for use by other team members.
Travel to industry events or business events where applicable.
Pursue continuing professional development in relation to the role and its duties and responsibilities as agreed through Personal Development Plan's or at other times.
Participate in all mandatory training events, as deemed appropriate for your role or for the company.
Understand and live our Environmental, Social, and Governance goals; find ways in which you and your team can make a positive contribution and impact through your working practices and behaviours.
Undertake ad hoc assignments from time to time and other duties as requested by management.
Understand and ensure the full observation of your contract of employment, the companies operating procedures and policies and its health and safety obligations.
Frugi Mission & Values
We are here to inspire the eco hero in all of us.
We will do that by being honest, positive, committed and impactful.
This job description is neither exhaustive nor exclusive and may be reviewed in the future depending upon operational requirements and staffing levels.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
* Company events
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Health & wellbeing programme
* Paid volunteer time
* Store discount
* Work from home
Work Location: In person