Assistant Merchandiser – Shepherds Bush

An established ladieswear retail is looking for an Assistant Merchandiser to join its growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced, product-focused business where you'll play a key role in driving stock performance, maximising sales opportunities and supporting the delivery of commercial success across multiple product categories. Working closely with Buying, Merchandising, and wider cross-functional teams, you'll gain exposure to every stage of the product lifecycle while developing your own career within a highly collaborative environment.

As an Assistant Merchandiser, you'll support the planning and trading of your department, ensuring stock is in the right place at the right time to maximise sales and profitability. You'll assist in managing allocations, forecasting demand, overseeing markdowns and promotions, and maintaining key reports and KPI documents. Using your analytical skills, you'll provide valuable insights into trading performance, monitor deliveries and work closely with suppliers to ensure stock commitments and business requirements are met.

You'll become a trusted partner to teams across Buying, Channel Merchandising, E-commerce and Visual Merchandising, providing accurate analysis and supporting key decision-making meetings. You'll contribute to seasonal planning, update WSSI forecasts and identify opportunities to improve performance through effective stock management. Over time, you'll have the opportunity to take ownership of specific product areas, developing your commercial knowledge and progressing your merchandising career within a supportive and ambitious team.

To succeed in this role, you'll bring previous merchandising experience within a retail environment, strong analytical capability, and advanced Excel skills. You'll be commercially aware, highly organised, and confident managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving business

The salary is paying up to £32,000

Benefits:

• Performance-related bonus
• 50% staff discount
• Career development opportunities
• Supportive and collaborative culture

Reference: CJ - 7400