Merchandiser, Retail

Department: MERCHANDISING & PLANNING

City:
London

Location:

GB

As a Merchandiser, you will support the Merchandising Manager and VP of Womens in developing and executing category strategies, ensuring collections align with the brand vision and drive commercial success. A positive, proactive, and action-oriented mindset is essential to thrive in this role.

• Own and drive Product category, managing full lifecycle of product from brief to delist/exit.
• Collaborate with the Merchandising team in developing the strategic plan for the Product category and influence cross-functional team to deliver strategic direction for the category.
• Develop and present the range plan for approval including pricing strategy, COO and competition strategy.
• Develop relationships with cross functional peers across Sourcing, Design, Product Development and Planning.
• Create effective working relationships with Regional Merchandising team to gain product feedback and market research.
• Confidence presenting in meetings and working closely with wide range of teams and levels
• Organise and coordinate collection notes and buying guides.
• Analyse and feedback on seasonal buys in a strategic and coherent recap
• Ability to manage projects independently
• Analyse daily/weekly sales reports and propose appropriate action to take.
• Manage accuracy of seasonal market documents/tools including PLM data entry and support the Merchandising Assistant to prepare reports using excel for Merchandising team.
• Be aware of the competitive market and conduct competitive analysis including Pricing Analysis.
• Partner with the Corporate Pricing team to understand price-bands across the three core currencies and report back findings to the Merchandising team; maintain data to support the price structure in PLM.
• Coordinate and support all administration duties relating to market/product training for the Merchandising team.
• Deliver any ad hoc administration and assistant duties to ensure smooth running of the team.

• Experience in Merchandising in a Fashion luxury environment
• A strong love for product and Fashion trends. Awareness of the Womenswear market.
• Demonstrates commercial instinct
• Strong Analytical skills
• Advanced skills in Excel
• “Doer” mindset and action driven
• Genuinely passionate about the industry

Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.