Assistant Trader

Summary

Our International business has the exciting job of bringing our famous clothing, food and home products to over 32 million customers worldwide. Collaborating with our partner businesses, different countries and cultures, you'll work with colleagues around the world to help us reshape International as we know it.
Our ambition is to more than double International retail sales online, so there's never been a better time to join the department and make your mark as we continue to build inclusive and diverse relationships, and put the business and our colleagues at the forefront of every decision we make!

All the details

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that becoming a part and playing your part. Were an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special

• 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
• A first-class welcome to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development. Having options to progress is something were proud of at M&S.
• Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal objectives.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website. Including GymSave that offers up to 25% off Gym Memberships and the option to become an M&S Shareholder using our ShareSave & ShareBuy Schemes
• Charity Volunteer Day A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
• A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
• Every colleague at M&S has access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support this includes access to our 24/7 Virtual GP, PAM Assist to support you & your family as well as many other schemes

What you'll do

As an Assistant Trader you will contribute to the maximisation of international sales across all channels, through the effective planning, selling, and trading of a global product range that delivers profitability at channel, range and option level, for M&S as well as for our International partners.

• To develop a departmental product strategy and to translate this into plans which maximise retail sales, reported sales and profit across all International selling channels and routes to market (e.g. order-based markets, marketplaces, online D2C) and aligns to the strategy
• Accountable for the delivery of key targets for your product area e.g. fulfilment at final intake, sales, and op profit
• Identify product requirements for your product area that satisfies partner requirements to maximise in-market sales (e.g. global range extensions, local sourcing) and ensure the Global range is delivered right first time as part of range reviews meeting garment compliance requirements.
• To promote an International mindset and be a catalyst in your product area, ensuring it is fully integrated with, and treated as a priority by, the global buying teams and that the needs of customers and partners are fulfilled.
• Plan the product level forward sales for International online sales fulfilled through the UK stock pot
• Drive International volume orders to assist with Clothing & Home price negotiation which drives value back into UK
• Accountable for ensuring stock arrives on time and is dispatched to International inline with agreed business rules e.g. via UK first, via off-shore Hub through 2nd production hit
• Re-forecast forward sales, retail and reported, across all channels and partners, ensuring appropriate controls in place for UK fulfilled International online stock to prevent stock risk in UK for your product area

Who you are

• Highly numerical with analytical and strong interpretive skills.
• Strong communicative, influencing, and organisational skills with the ability to initiate and build strong relationships across the business, franchisees, International colleagues, and suppliers.
• Strong production / capacity planning abilities, including critical path creation and delivery.
• Ability to understand performance, key metrics and how to use such data to maximise sales and deliver growth in future seasons in their area.
• Ability to fully utilise appropriate IT systems

Everyone's Welcome

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. Thats why were revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Theres never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.

Were an in-person business and have core collaboration days in our Support Centre each week. For most teams, this is 3 working days where we come together to collaborate, innovate, and serve our customers brilliantly.

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.

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