Assistant Merchandiser
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We are looking for a detail-oriented and commercially aware Assistant Merchandiser to support the merchandising function across retail and ecommerce channels. This role will be responsible for trading analysis, stock management, website merchandising, product launch support, and cross-functional coordination to help maximise product performance and ensure smooth day-to-day operations. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, experience working with merchandising data, and a passion for fashion and retail trading
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and update weekly trading reports including overall business WSSI, NOOS linecards, Retailer reporting, and Store WSSI.
- Analyse weekly sales and stock performance, providing store performance updates to the wider team.
- Prepare weekly trade packs including sales analysis, imagery, and key trading insights.
- Produce monthly overstock and slow-seller reports to support commercial trading decisions.
- Review weekly product performance and identify products requiring replenishment, including ratio sizing adjustments.
- Conduct historical sales analysis to support future collection planning and evaluate sale period performance.
- Act as the first point of contact for stores regarding stock queries, replenishment, and allocations.
- Manage weekly store replenishment and monthly allocation of new collections based on store requests, feedback, and trading performance.
- Prepare and manage monthly recall lists for store stock, coordinating with the warehouse to adjust stock levels.
- Load weekly store orders into PVX for warehouse processing and resolve purchase order issues as required.
- Reviewing products that require activation or drafting on a weekly basis.
- Merchandising collections ahead of launches.
- Ensuring products are correctly categorised online.
- Managing visibility of back-in-stock products.
- Review low-performing products weekly and work with management to optimise site merchandising following trade meetings.
Must Haves
- You have all the technical skills through experience to deliver this role, a whizz on excel (or sheets in our case) you can navigate formulas, pivot tables and reporting with ease.
- You have 3 years or more experience that may have been developed post grad, but has been in a similar field of retail.
About Saint and Sofia
Saint and Sofia, based in London, England, creates fair and sustainable fashion and accessories by blending innovative design with advanced production techniques. Launched in January 2020, the brand serves over 700,000 customers through operations and fulfilment centers in the USA, UK, and Europe. Saint and Sofia’s award-winning team, with experience at leading global fashion brands, is committed to quality and sustainability, producing collections in family-owned European factories.