Asst Merchandiser Advanced - Brands

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Playing a pivotal role in delivering the M&S Brands strategic ambition to introduce and grow the third-party Brands offer.
• Formulating a detailed monthly plan of products to be offered across all channels to meet customer requirements, taking full responsibility for a range or department where necessary.
• Working collaboratively with Buying counterparts to build and maintain product ranges that grow and improve M&S style credentials.
• Booking quantities to meet launch and in-season variables across all channels, maintaining strong availability of continuity product through regular size reviews and forecasting, and delivering in-season actions that maximise sales and profit and meet agreed targets.
• Building and maintaining strong brand relationships, monitoring sales and range performance and liaising with brands to react and amend, while presenting regular business reviews, working flexibly across dropship, consignment and wholesale models, and coaching Merchandising Admin Assistants.

Who you are

Your skills & experience will include

• Currently working at Assistant Merchandiser level in a fast-paced retailer, with knowledge of the end-to-end buy to channel process.
• Strong Merchandising skills including development of Department Plan, stock/commitment management, creating sales estimates and managing GSM.
• Strong numerical, analytical and interpretive skills.
• Strong relationship building and communication skills, with the ability to initiate and build relationships with brand partners and key stakeholders, influencing where needed.
• Experience managing and setting direction for a team, motivating & developing reports, deputising responsibilities and leading through change, with resilience and openness to change

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

What’s in it for you?

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for someone in the household, available once probation is complete
• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to individual and business performance
• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
• Tailored induction and training to support development from day one
• Exclusive perks and savings through the M&S Choices portal
• Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters

Everyone’s welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more
conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting
opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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