Junior Multi Channel Merchandiser

The key objective is to drive the Outdoors Multichannel offering forward, ensuring that the full product range is surfaced online, while working closely with the offline merchandising team to identify and work through opportunities and challenges for your specific category throughout the year.

·       Job Title – Junior Multi Channel Merchandiser

·       Location – JD Group, Hollins Brook Way, Pilsworth, BL9 8RR

·       Working rota – Monday to Friday

·       Working hours – 8:30am to 5:00pm, 40 hours per week.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Review daily and weekly sales trends, identifying areas of weakness and strength, working directly with the B&M teams to actions changes to drive and increase sales.
• Manage & work with the Assistant Merchandisers to action any changes identified to help increase sales.
• Monitor live sales to identify fast sellers and feedback directly to B&M in order to ensure suitable stock cover.
• Identify underperforming lines and categories and propose actions to the Senior Merchandiser / Trading Manager to improve sales.
• Regularly review the entire business stock range to ensure all suitable lines are live and showcased suitably on site.
• Review product attributes to ensure that site navigation, filters and general customer journeys are optimised to maximise conversion.
• Regularly review pricing across the outdoor sites to ensure the pricing strategy is being followed and highlight to the B&M team any issues.
• Review VM of the websites and suggest improvements to the AM’s to maximise sales via combination if ranking blends & manual pins.
• Work directly with the B&M teams to identify and prioritise seasonal sales drivers and feed this back through both the AM’s & content team to guarantee alignment around first to sight priorities.
• Assist the Senior Multichannel Merchandiser with identifying product & brand performance trends within categories in order to help shape trading plans.
• Ensure all onsite promotions are set up correctly and monitor performance daily to identify any possible errors / issues.
• Compare store vs web sales weekly to identify any online sales shortfalls and review presentation to ensure maximum revenue.
• Train new members of the team and support their long-term development.

Teamwork

• Reports to the Senior Multi-Channel Merchandiser.
• Establish working relationships with divisional Buying & Merchandise teams, Multi-Channel and Marketing teams.
• Training and managing a direct report Assistant Merchandiser.

Key Deliverables

• Assist the Senior Multi-Channel Merchandiser to drive the channels and deliver agreed sales targets.
• Apply best practice
• Build strong relationships with B&M team.
• Identify opportunities.
• Identify competitor threats.
• Become expert in the use of online systems/tools: Aurora Commerce, Google Analytics and Looker.

What We're Looking For:

• Good knowledge of excel
• Experience working with merchandiser software
• Strong organisation and time-management skills
• Strong Analytical Skills

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports 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

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.

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