Digital Merchandiser

As part of the Digital Merchandising team with size?, this role is pivotal in ensuring that our product offerings are optimally positioned to meet customer demands and market trends. This position involves a dynamic blend of trend analysis, product placement, and stock management, as well as troubleshooting platform issues, and maintaining accurate stock levels.
Collaborating closely with the trading manager, the merchandiser will contribute to forecasts and trend analyses, influence the strategic merchandising decisions that drive our business forward and review sales data daily to make informed commercial decisions that effectively manage both sales and inventory.

Responsibilities:

Planning

• Overseeing hard launches effectively by getting products prepared in time, analysing STR% performance. This does include weekend launches (time given back).


• Co-ordinating and ensuring that new products are online as quickly and efficiently as possible. Using product trackers, intake calendars and KPI reporting to analysis time to site performance.


• Annotating key information future reference such as key product, issues, and events.


Trading

• Monitoring reserved stock daily by SKU level and full weekly reviews to manage stock holding.


• Reviewing low cover lines in the warehouse to be transferred from slow/none selling stores to maintain sell through rate for company. As well as monitoring transfer processing rates - liaising with the core merchandising. warehouse and the retail teams to improve this.


• Monitoring key replenishment to support trade and ensuring teams are away of updates prior and post on site.


• Reviewing stock levels across other business and stores to service the websites.


• Analysing daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly reports to highlight good and deficient performance. As well as comparing online to stores performance to close the gap within the business.


• Merchandising the site using Fredhopper algorithms and manual & blocking modifications for key products.


• Site walks throughout the day to raise any potential issues - broken links, incorrect product descriptions, placement, imagery and general housekeeping.


• Attributing the site to improve the customer journey and marketing pushes.


Team work

• Working closely with core merchandising, buyers and marketing to sign off all products for marketing activity, to get the best out of the stock and ranges that are getting back as a business.


• As well as with the wider digital marketing teams (PPC, SEO, Affiliates, ECRM) to ensure that all product related activity from keywords, ranking and links are appropriate.


• Development of the merchandising team.


• Point of contact for new technology that is brought in to improve the site and general launch maintenance.


Role objectives and KPI's:

• Maintaining stock files in a good place.


• Implement and apply good practice.


• Train, develop and motivate team.


• Build strong relationships with B&M team.


• Identify opportunities.


• Identify threats (current issues) and look to resolve them.


Competencies and behaviours:

• 1 Deciding and Initiating Action


• 1 Working with People


• 2 Persuading and Influencing


• 1 Writing and Reporting


• 2 Creating and Innovating


• 1 Adapting and Responding to Change
  
  Analytical thinker with the ability to spot potential issues and provide effective solutions for review before escalation.


• Good understanding of Excel and Powerpoint. SQL knowledge would be beneficial but not essential.


• Effective management and leadership experience.


• Effective communication skills and problem-solving capabilities.


• Highly organised, good prioritisation and time management skills.


• Experience within a sports/fashion retailer is advantageous.
  
  Established in 2000, size? has since evolved into one of the most influential, leading streetwear brands that represent a community connected by fashion, music, sport and art. From supplying our customers with all of the finest brands in footwear, apparel and accessories from across the globe for over two decades, the size? brand has grown to include its roster of highly sought-after worldwide exclusive product releases - including collaborations with Nike, adidas Originals, New Balance, Reebok and many more.From showcasing and celebrating all things streetwear and the cultures that influence it through size?collections; to working directly with some of the UK's most creative universities through size?syllabus, the size? franchises have evolved over the years to help play a core role in connecting us to our customers.
  
  We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Group the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:


• Incremental Holiday Allowance


• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online


• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme


• Discounted Gym membership


• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work


• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications