1. Mix of Office & Home Working
2. Close to transport links
About Our Client
A great opportunity for a Merchandiser to join a leading business in the Bradford area. As a Merchandiser you'll manage all key financial Merchandising KPI's across Planning, Trading & Forecasting. A customer facing role you will maintain, develop and contribute to the profit plan for a specified area of responsibility and ensure all stakeholders have the right information, at the right time to facilitate right first-time decisions across product, finance and supply planning
Job Description
3. Account planning including sales plans, customer budget and SKU level decision making activities
4. Evaluating financial factors including assumptions and suitable contingency plans
5. Forecasting across all elements whether total business, account, caption or line level
6. Stock allocation requirements to deliver the customer plan whilst minimising stock exposure
7. Top line trading analysis for forward planning and identifying risks & opportunities
8. Facilitate the optimum range selection process through your analysis and insights
9. Develop strong cross functional relationships to ensure all interventions / activities are delivered in the most effective & profitable way
10. Drive efficiencies, improved ways of working and increased profit across your customer accounts
The Successful Applicant
11. Previous experience of working in a merchandising role or similar role within a Retail / FMCG business
12. Excellent excel, numeric & analytical abilities to identify commercial insights relevant to our audience
13. You're a confident communicator, able to adjust their approach to varying audiences, marrying your strong presentation skills with your skilled use of data and insights
14. You're a people person, you take the time to build strong relationships, working with others to achieve shared objectives
15. Your commercial acumen, using your knowledge and insights to engage and influence others, keeping profit growth at the core of decision making
16. You're organised, with a keen eye of the details, with experience of planning and forecasting sales across everyday & seasons
17. A solid awareness of retail, and ideally our category, influences which are factored in to your decision making to mitigate risks to sales
What's on Offer
18. Competitive salary
19. Hybrid working - A mixture of office based and working from home, especially when you're flexing your working hours
20. 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, volunteer days and an annual Care Day
21. Health cashback scheme
22. Pension benefit
23. Close to motorway links and public transport, alongside free onsite parking
24. A variety of other cultural and lifestyle benefits, aimed at promoting a positive work/life balance
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