Merchandising Assistant - Work in UK

Company: Work Abroad Location: London Department: Administration Employment Type: Full Time

Key responsibilities:

Inventory

  • Manage and raise purchase orders in a timely manner
  • Liaise with suppliers and proactively track all purchase order information, ensuring any changes or anticipated problems are highlighted in a timely manner
  • Maintain delivery schedule and communicate updates or changes to customer services team
  • Responsible for receiving in PO’s and informing team of new arrivals/lines that are back in stock
  • Be first point of contact for our warehouse

Products

  • Maintain SKU database
  • Create new SKU’s

Sales

  • Maintain delivery schedule and communicate updates or changes to customer services team
  • Support the Merchandiser in ensuring that available stock levels are always maintained at a level to meet sales requirements
  • Keep front of website updated with out of stock lines and work with marketing to maintain site
  • Report sales figures daily
  • Report on company KPI’s on a weekly basis

Suppliers

  • Manage multiple suppliers confidently
  • Maintain current supplier database
  • Keep track of all faulty and returned products and make sure credits are raised by suppliers

Key Skills required:

  • Educated to degree level, ideally within a retail related degree
  • Experience within a catalogue or retail environment will be at a distinct advantage, however any product based sector will be considered
  • Proficient experience in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel (formulas, v-lookup, etc)
  • High level of communication skills, written, verbal and visual, with confidence to communicate across all levels of the business
  • Enjoys the detail, has an eye for accuracy and an analytical outlook
  • Strong ability to demonstrate excellent planning and organisational skills
  • Commercially aware
  • Experience with Microsoft Nav and Magento an advantage

Key Behaviours:

  • An excellent team player
  • Genuine interest or understanding of the buying and merchandising cycle
  • Enthusiastic, confident and self-motivated with a passion for product and retailing
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