A great opportunity for an ambitious individual to join our fast-paced merchandise planning department on Fashion as we ensure the best shopping experience for our customers, delivering strategic objectives and commercial budgets through trading, stock flow management, critical path management, and availability.

About the role

You will provide administrative support to the merchandise planning function, ensuring effective stock management to deliver commercial KPI’s and critical path management. You will be involved in administrative tasks to manage availability and pricing, and you will work collaboratively with other business functions including operations, sourcing and logistics.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supports Merchandise department to deliver strategic objectives and commercial budgets.
• Understands annual commercial budgets to deliver business objectives.
• Works alongside the merchandise team to manage stock flow through the business.
• Understands product lifecycle to deliver availability targets
• Involved in pricing & trading plans.
• Effective critical path management to fulfil merchandise plans.
• Involved in updating of replenishment with utilisation of the Forecasting application.
• Working in collaboration with logistics, operations and sourcing.
• Understands and utilises data to best inform effective decision making for department.

About you:

• Your actions have a direct impact on maximising customer satisfaction, sales and profitability through inventory management.
• Understanding of commercial plans
• Product knowledge
• Good interpretation and presentation of data
• Sustained customer focus
• Strong relationship builder with both external brands and suppliers, and internal teams across the wider business
• Highly motivated and willing to self learn
• Attention to detail and accuracy on all aspects of the role are essential

Some of our benefits:

• Flexible, hybrid working model
• Inclusive culture and environment, check out 
• £250 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays
• Udemy learning access
• Bonus potential (performance and business-related)
• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk
• Matched pension up to 6%

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation 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 to request accommodation.