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Merchandising Assistant | Competitive Sports & Performance Brand | Manchester City Centre | Circa £24,000

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and rapidly evolving sports and performance brand that has already established itself in a competitive marketplace.

Having gained solid traction both online and in physical retail locations, the brand is now navigating a phase of significant growth and expansion are looking to grow their merchandising function. They are on the immediate look out for a merchandising assistant to come and join the business.

This is a brilliant opportunity for a self starter, ambitious individual who wants to kickstart their career in the sports & athleisure industry.

As the Merchandising Assistant:

Be the support function to your product development & wider merchandising team
Manage the critical path of booked styles with your product development team
Manage & accurately update the full delivery schedule
Communicate daily with suppliers, warehouse and your full product teams around the status of booked lines
Raise and manage all Purchase Orders
Ensure all detail within Purchase Orders are accurate at all times
Support with Monday Trade meetings by pulling reports for your merchandiser
Ability to analyse reports and data to build information & actions for your team
Ability to feedback opinion and fact around sales and stock from reports to your merchandiser
Make sure all product "goes live" when stock is in the warehouse, ensuring that product goes onto the website ASAP
Manage and images vs stock discrepancies yourself
Monitor competitors, if not daily, weekly around new product they are selling along with their prices and any mark down
Work collaboratively with partners and their merchandising, buying and marketing teams
Support with key trading periods i.e Black Friday & Christmas promo's
Understand freight times, challenges and ability to book in stock with forwarder's and warehouses You will:

Calm, cool & collected
Collaborative
A strong, confident communicator
Accountable
Pro-active
Problem solver MUST HAVE:

Strong interest in the sports/lifestyle & performance market
Strong, advanced Excel skills
Desired, but not essential; Degree or qualifications in buying/merchandising/business management BBBH32086