Channel Merchandiser (Monsoon)
| Ref: | MON11944 |
| Salary: | Competitive |
| Department: | Merchandising |
| Location: | Notting Hill Village, London (W11) |
| Position type: | Permanent |
| Hours / Duration: | 37.5 hours per week |
Our story began with one man and his vision; to bring vibrant, colourful, hand-crafted artisan clothes from faraway places to the markets of London. It is a journey that started on a hippy commune in Ibiza,1970, and finished with an overland trip east, through Afghanistan and India. Now found in West London, we’re creating vibrant products and sharing endless discovery.
We now have an exciting position for a Channel Merchandiser to join our Monsoon Channel-Merchandising team. The role is responsible for achiving profit targets across our online web concessions and global store portfolio. Management of stock and timeline for launching product on time and ensuring the smooth running of the channel merchandising team.
What will you do as a Channel Merchandiser?
Stores
- Responsible for all regional stock queries for the business from market and franchises.
- Manage sales, stock and profit within region to achieve cost of markdown and terminal stock targets, where necessary adapting in season.
- Ensure all location product quirks and trading lessons learnt are fed back to the buying and merchandising teams lessons learnt to improve future season’s buys and stock allocations.
- Ensure specific store groups have the correct stock packages, including airports.
- Keep up to date with all brand promotional activity, suggesting promotions and markdowns to improve sell through and reduce cost of MD and terminal in International markets.
- Manage store/market openings and closures as required for the region, ensuring that new stores are appropriately graded for space and planned density. Monitor replenishment and performance against budget.
- Commercially aware of performance and stock levels across the business by department and the impact on own region.
- Market, UK store and WDC visits if required.
- Manage clearance and old season stock for the market
- Responsible for setting up and flexing allocation and replenishment dynamics each season, in consultation with core merch teams.
- Review global events calendar and ensure peak periods and market events are analysed and the appropriate stock is built
Web Concessions
- Communicates regularly with the concession’s partners, to influence trade and look for sales growth opportunities, representing Monsoon in weekly trade meeting.
- Onboarding new concessions
- Conducting season planning reviews with concession partners, to identify any missed opportunities and areas to maximise sales.
- Reviewing concessions websites and working with external parties to ensure products displayed in best ways/ categories etc
- Using data analysis to identify and prioritise major sales drivers and highlight deficiencies such as best sellers, availability and option count.
- Stock Availability – work with the merchandising team to ensure correct stock is allocated to support the product plans and customer demand
- Work with other departments to create and manage the concessions critical path completing full end to end process.
- Supports the sale process in order to maximise sales, whilst protecting margin and profit.
- Supports the senior channel merchandiser to ensure company and department information is communicated effectively to team through weekly team meetings.
- Oversees the enrichment data enrichment for new season launch and subsequent monthly inputs in accordance with the critical path, highlighting any issues that will delay product launch.
- Co-ordinate with DC to release any held stock, investigate any order issues and organise returns
- Regularly provide intake forecasts for concession partner
- Review opportunities for marketing with concession ensuring that samples and images are provided in time to support.
Team
- Supports with managing the workload of the Channel Merchandising team.
- Works closely with level 2’s to ensure level 1’s are sufficiently trained across all concession and UK/INT tasks and that there is adequate cover for holiday.
What will you need to succeed Channel Merchandiser?
- Previous experience within channel/branch merchandising or space planning
- Excellent communication
- Strong organisation and planning skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Analytical skills
- Ability to identify best practices
- Team management experience
What will we offer you in return?
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday with the option to purchase additional holiday through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Private Healthcare
- Bonus day off each year after 6 months service
- A pension that you will automatically be enrolled in after 3 months
- Life assurance (subject to participating in the pension scheme)
- A flexible working approach
- Early pay day Friday finish
- A generous staff discount with up to 50% discount on our products
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounted gym membership at our on-campus gym
- Additional discounts such as Westfield discount, Taste card membership etc
If this all sounds great and you feel you are who we are looking for, let us know and apply today.
At Monsoon Accessorize we don’t focus only on what we do, we also care about how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us.
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and an environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people and are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will also consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
We provide reasonable accommodations as needed to people with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at careers@monsoon.co.uk to request discuss any specific requirements.