New Range Manager (6 Month FTC)

Job Description

The RoleAs the home of small brands, we are constantly on the lookout for amazing, eye catching and great quality products to bring to our marketplace to delight our customers. The New Range Manager’s role is to source the best new brands through our membership application process, as well as inviting brands we think have great potential to sell with us.

We also have thousands of new products being uploaded from our existing partners every week - championing new bestsellers and spotting emerging trends is key to this role.

Accountabilities

• Combining category and customer insight with commercial instincts and a keen eye to spot a future bestseller. You’ll be managing all the new partner applications that come through organically, as well as building the pipeline and reaching out to brands we’ve spotted that we think would be a great fit for our marketplace.
• Understanding future market trends, range gaps and growth opportunities, supporting the Head of Range & Ecommerce on the execution of the Range Strategy by future-proofing our product offering and spotting the right brands to fill range gaps.
• A NOTHS brand champion, you will live our values to communicate the benefits of being a partner to prospective small brands. Small brands need to consider NOTHS as the very best platform to grow their business. Effective communication will be key, and you’ll need to be confident on the phone, as well as having outstanding writing and visual presentation skills.
• You’ll be responsible for managing the New Partner Assistant to onboard new Partners to provide an effective and positive Partner acquisition journey, as well as collaborating with colleagues in the Commercial, Finance and Legal teams to ensure safety and compliance.
• You’ll work closely with the Category Manager, Brand Curator and Visual Merchandising team to ensure the new Partners have the best possible exposure and marketing opportunities once they’ve joined.
• Monitoring the performance of future best selling products, using your amazing product eye to spot high potential new products and share them with key stakeholders to supercharge their performance.
• You’ll oversee our new product approval process and category approval process (managing the Category Assistant) to ensure this is completed to agreed SLAs and with a high level of attention to detail. You’ll collaborate with the Partner Ops and Legal teams on product compliance issues where necessary.

Some key skills and experience you’ll need...

Technical skills:

• A brilliant trend and product eye with the ability to spot future bestsellers and amazing newness.
• Experience of managing operational processes and content management systems effectively, using learned knowledge and commercial instinct to inform decisions.
• Good level of negotiation and influencing skills
• You can interpret data to a high level and use it to drive actions.
• Experience of building and running reports in Looker preferred and good level Excel skills.

Human skills:

• Self motivated and proactive.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written and visual) with the natural ability to gain confidence from external and internal stakeholders
• Experience in collaboratively supporting and working with multiple stakeholders.
• Comfortable and confident to work independently to problem solve and make recommendations.
• Can flexibly move between projects and deadlines in a fast-paced trading environment.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and a passion for our products, partners and brand.

Don’t meet every single requirement? No problem. Your strengths, passion & fresh perspective could be just what we’re looking for - so we encourage you to apply!

What we offer

Our perksIt's super important to us to make sure everyone feels safe and looked-after, which is why we've got a wide range of benefits in place. From supporting you and your loved ones with healthcare to cheeky 'just because' gifts, we're here for you.

We've got a ton of good stuff for everyone - like private medical insurance, a health cash plan, an electric vehicle scheme, mental health platform access, cycle to work scheme, and a 20% discount on our website. To find out more about what we offer, have a look here. We've also worked very hard to come up with a set of policies to support our people in any situation- like medicalised leave, menstrual leave, and primary carer leave.
Full-time NOTHS-ers get 25 days of holidays each year (plus bank hols!), as well as having the opportunity to work from anywhere for two calendar months a year. Did someone say beach holiday?

How we workHere at NOTHS, we embrace a remote-first approach to work, recognising the value of flexibility and the diverse talents that remote teams bring to the table. Our remote work culture is designed to empower our employees, foster collaboration, and create a community that transcends physical boundaries.

Under this framework, all of us operate remotely, convening as teams at regular intervals that suit each team best. These gatherings serve various purposes, including ideation sessions, hackathons, or simply fostering valuable face-to-face interactions.

Every quarter, we hold a Get Together and the whole company meets for a fun-filled day (with no shortage of food!) with some special guests... our small brand Partners!
Want to find out more? Take a look here.

Diversity, Equity, & InclusionDEI is really important to us and that’s why everyone’s welcome at Not On The High Street – whoever they are, whatever their background.

We are committed to embracing and encouraging our employees’ uniquenesses- whether this is in age, people with disabilities, ethnicity, family structures, gender, LGBTQ+ identity, lower income backgrounds, race, religion, the intersectionality or all/any of these and other aspects making us who we are. We take pride in treating all of our employees fairly and we want our people to feel respected, valued and recognised within the workplace. As part of your application, you’ll be asked to complete an optional demographic survey to help us learn more about who wants to work with us. Responses will only be used to help us figure out how to make our team even more inclusive and attract more brilliant people to join us!

We'll also ask whether you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to the interview process should you need them and you can answer this question should you choose to in the application phase. Apply to join Team NOTHS!Our recruitment processes are fully remote, taking advantage of the wonders of modern-day technology. We’d love to hear more about you, your experience and why you want to join our team. Good luck!