Merchandise Assistant

Role: Merchandise Assistant

Location: North Devon

Contract: Permanent

Salary: DOE

Acorn by Synergie is currently looking for a Merchandise Assistant for a busy role based in North Devon.

Reporting to the Senior merchandiser, this role helps to maximise profit & minimize costs by maintaining efficient stock flow, through effective management of stock and allocation and distribution of stock to all channels. Accountable for maintaining accurate information relevant to stock, purchase orders and shipping.

Key responsibilities include:

• Create reports for the merchandising team and business on a weekly basis. Assess the data provided to check the validity, relevance and accuracy of the data provided.
• Manipulate reports and analyse information to formulate conclusions.
• Accurately update, monitor and maintain data sources to ensure information is updated for ad hoc and routine reporting purposes. Work with reports to improve efficiency of the department.
• Create and maintain reports to support analysis of department & channel performance. Recommend any action(s) based on findings
• Provide necessary Trend Analysis to support Designers in making sound Buying/Design decisions.
• Support the branch merchandiser on Store allocations & replenishments.
• Raise new product codes, descriptions and barcodes in agreed format to manage the accuracy of data in Futura Retail System.
• Raise Purchase Orders for each season & communicate with the Buying team.
• Support growth of both the Trade and Consumer business by providing all necessary analysis/reports required to make profitable decisions.

Person Specification:

• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, confident using formulas & manipulating data with pivot tables.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment & working to deadlines.
• Great people and communication skills.
• GCSE 5 or above in Math - a passion for numbers & analytics
• Experience working in a retail environment, whether on the shop floor or in a head office role, would be highly preferable

Please call the branch on (phone number removed) for more information, or send a copy of your CV to (url removed)

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