Junior Merchandiser

You will operate both strategically and tactically, building robust processes from the ground up while driving day-to-day commercial performance whilst reporting into their Senior Merchandiser.\n\nThis is a hands-on role for someone comfortable working in the grey, confident in their decisions, and motivated by accountability. You will influence product strategy, challenge performance, and provide clear direction backed by data.\n\nThis is a rare opportunity for someone bold, commercially driven, and ready to roll up their sleeves. If you want to move beyond maintaining spreadsheets and instead shape performance, process, and progression this could be a defining next step in your career.\n\nKey Responsibilities:\n\nOwn and deliver weekly trading analysis, reporting on KPIs across sales, stock, margin, and markdown with clear actions and recommendations.\nReview over- and under-performance at product level, proactively managing risk and maximising opportunity.\nProduce weekly and seasonal performance reports for senior leadership.\nConduct detailed ad-hoc analysis to support strategic decision-making.\nDeliver in-depth seasonal analysis to inform forward strategy and lessons learned.\nBuild and manage seasonal merchandising plans aligned to brand strategy and sales targets.\nOwn WSSI planning at department and sub-category level, forecasting demand, OTB, returns, and margin.\nManage OTB, intake, budgets, and markdown strategies to drive stock efficiency.\nCreate category frameworks and product mix plans to support long-term department growth.\nIdentify categories to grow, maintain, or exit based on data and potential.\nPartner closely with Design and Buying to shape ranges, size curves, and levels of newness.\nManage line cards to maintain core availability, suggesting and managing rebuys of core styles.\nSupport product selection and range building to ensure alignment with customer demand and financial targets.\nProtect bestsellers while balancing newness and de-risking the overall stock file.\nManage allocation and replenishment to optimise availability and sell-through.\nOversee the order-raising process, ensuring POs align with buy plans and ratios are accurate.\nManage critical path, stock ordering, and delivery schedules - working closely with suppliers to ensure on-time launches.\nForecast intake and manage delivery flow to support sustainable scaling.\nBuild and evolve merchandising processes, reporting structures, and trade documents from scratch.\nEstablish strong cross-functional relationships across design, buying, logistics, and senior leadership.\nDeputise where required and support the development of junior team members as the function grows.Why This Role Is Different:\n\nHigh visibility across the entire business.\nDirect access to senior stakeholders and genuine influence over brand direction, reporting day to day into a senior merchandiser.\nOpportunity to build infrastructure that will scale with growth.\nLong-term, sustainable career progression within a brand on the rise.BH35644