Merchandise Category Analyst

As a Merchandise Analyst you will be responsible for providing analytical support to the Head of Merchandise Planning and Merchandise Planner. You will drive the day to day analysis of trade performance for ASOS product categories across all business units, producing data insight packs to support decision making, and will work collaboratively with the product teams to produce and maintain commitment and OTB monitors.

What You'll Be Doing

• Delivering against existing strategy by executing deliverables against key milestones:
• Producing pre-season and in-season analysis packs at product category level across all business units
• Monitoring category and business unit performance and surfacing opportunities as well as potential risk
• Participating in trade meetings with Merchandise Planners and Head of Merchandise Planning
• Delivering insights on width and depth requirements to meet satisfy customer demand
• Creating 'theme' packs on pricing and price architecture to support product and channel teams
• Overlaying performance analysis with additional customer data to support trade decision making
• Challenging existing analytical approach and continually drive new approaches to data insights
• Incorporating the requirements of channel teams into data packs to ensure product requirements to enable visibility of local demand
• Making judgements based on previous practice and precedence using:
• Pre-season & in-season performance packs
• Commitment, OTB and intake maintenance
• Width & Depth analysis and recommendations
• Pricing analysis and recommendations
• Providing Head of Merchandise Planning and Merchandise Planner with analytical support to enable strategic decision making
• Using revenue and profitability as a key measure of success
• Providing analysis and visibility of the end to end performance KPIs at product category level