Assistant Merchandiser

Role Overview

• Prepare and present weekly trade packs calling out key risks and opportunities related to your categories.
• Conduct site walks and raise e-commerce trading proposals to identify opportunities for growth and mitigate stock risks.
• Update weekly sales reports including line cards and wssi, updating forecasts and proposing trading actions.
• Conduct weekly reviews of store allocations, amending IAQs based on sales and adding/removing lines from each store’s ranging in reaction to trade.
• Conduct monthly store visits to discuss successes and failures from each store’s stock package.
• Propose actions to transition specific styles to the archive when necessary.
• Oversee retail stock ensuring each store has the optimal range to maximise sales opportunities and managing stock levels to ensure minimal missed opportunity whilst keeping consolidation volumes within target KPIs.
• Propose stock movements between stores where styles are performing better/worst in certain locations.
• Oversee and sign off weekly store allocations with the team MAA before they are send down to pick.
• Compile and maintain the seasonal planning for owned categories.
• Assist in range building own categories, analyzing key attributes and highlighting and risk and opportunities.
• Compile new season buy proposals for owned categories.
• Compile size ratios for new season buys and balance backs for repeat orders on owned categories.
• Collaborate with the MAA (Merchandising Admin Assistant) to manage delivery schedules and communicate intake dates or delays to the store teams.

Requirements

• Proven experience in an assistant merchandiser role, ideally within the fashion industry.
• Experience in allocating to stores.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and propose actionable insights.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills, with a keen eye for detail.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, for effective collaboration across teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other relevant tools for data analysis and reporting.
• Experience working with Netsuite and Shopify would be helpful.

Benefits

• Hybrid working: three days on-site each week.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Generous staff discount across all RIXO collections plus early access to sample sales before anyone else.
• Team socials that actually happen.
• We celebrate the work and the people behind it.
• Health cash plan to cover the everyday stuff: opticians, physio, dental.