Merchandising Manager

Job Description

As the Merchandising Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the regional revenue, stock and margin goals are achieved. You will own the sales and stock planning and trading for the department, best partnering with the Buying, Sourcing, Digital Commerce, Marketing, Production and Logistics teams to ensure product strategy is best communicated to the consumer through all possible internal levers and best service is provided to the end consumer.

You will manage junior members in the Merchandising team, leading from the front, ensuring all BAU tasks and new processes are managed end to end, with you as the best practice point of contact. You will lead the team on a daily basis- ensuring all members consistently have the tools and framework to be able to meet/exceed their KPI’s.

Reporting to our Head of Product & Merchandising, you will drive and communicate any business-critical communication that needs to happen across the business. You must be a confident communicator, ensuring the product vision is clear in order to support other departments in the business.

Please note the salary for this role is between £40-£45K.

We are very open to all types of flexible working, please ask us at the interview stage.

Requirements

You Will:

• Lead the weekly trade meeting, guide on actions to generate revenue, report on content performance and guide product focus across shoots, grid, DTC and CRM weekly
• Stay balanced in complicated and tasking situations, clearly communicating next steps across the business to reach a resolve
• Ensure accurate stock type and product type attribution to manage ST targets and drive lifecycle strategies
• Identify processes and tasks that no longer serve the department and amend these to support revenue targets
• Oversee all Merchandising projects to meet or exceed sales, margin and stock targets
• Provide merchandising guidance to the ‘product’ team on the affiliate and VIP check-outs to support commercial strategy

You Have:

• Motivation to be part of a fast-paced, late-stage start-up
• Resilience and positive attitude through an ever-changing environment and new business initiatives
• Strong communication and organisation skills and stay commercially aware through retail news
• Proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Google Sheets, Docs and Slides
• Knowledge of brands and current trends

Benefits

• Vitality at Work + Private Medical Insurance plans
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Denplan
• Eyecare Vouchers
• Pension
• Staff discounts
• Enhanced Parent Program + Parental Leave
• The Inclusive Threads DE&I Program
• 25 Days Holiday
• Paid sick leave
• Flexible working
• Long service awards
• Mentorship & Coaching

About Threads:

Want to help build the future of luxury fashion commerce? If so, you’ve come to the right place.

Threads is a creative, luxury fashion personal shopping and commerce business. Through social and chat-based media, we inspire our international client base to discover the rarest luxury items. We then search the globe to procure them for our clients; this is the future of retail.

Threads is in Tech City’s Future Fifty programme which recognises some of the UK’s fastest growing businesses, pioneering the best luxury shopping experience in the world!

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Equity in selection practices

Threads practise equity in selection through targeting less represented talent pools, and offering access to development and support in interviews. We do this because we want to provide less represented groups with access to opportunities, and us, access to great people. All candidate offers are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. If we have two candidates at the final stage, we choose the best candidate for the job.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, and have committed to the recruitment and continued employment of people with disabilities. We are working towards improved employment practices to ensure those with disabilities receive full and fair consideration for all types of vacancies as well as for training, career development and promotion. Our goal is to be recognised as an employer providing employment opportunities for people with disabilities.