Senior Merchandiser
Role Profile
Reports to: Senior Merchandiser
Location: Glasgow, office based
Salary: Dependent on experience
Hours: 42.5 hours per week (8.30am to 5.30pm)
The Company
Jacobs & Turner Limited (trading as Trespass) is one of Scotland’s most successful private companies.
Trespass is a leading outdoor clothing and equipment retailer dedicated to providing high-quality products and exceptional customer service. With a focus on innovation and sustainability, Trespass continues to expand its presence in the outdoor industry.
Role Overview
As the Senior Merchandiser you will be responsible for the Planning/Forecasting of one of our key departments and overseeing our team of Merchandisers. As well as this, you will be heavily involved in product and range building and will need a minimum of 2/3 years’ experience as a Merchandiser within a retail business.
Could you be who we are looking for?
- Do you enjoy being able to use your initiative to run projects and identify opportunities through new tasks?
- Are you excellent in working with Microsoft Systems, more specifically Excel?
- Are you a strong communicator with the ability to influence both verbally and written?
- Do you pride yourself in having a good attention to detail?
- Do you enjoy working in a busy team?
- Are you an innovative thinker who enjoys identifying opportunities and interventions for continuous improvement?
What does a typical day sound like?
- You will be responsible for overseeing department performance – buys, sell through, KPI’s, markdown.
- You will manage delivery flow through warehouse.
- Oversee all responsibility for managing stock movement to international warehouses for retail and wholesale.
- Manage, update, and share Retail KPI sheets with the wider team and senior management.
- You will manage the promo calendar for seasonal windows – in line with business objectives and Graphics requirements.
- You will also be responsible for managing UK, EU, and CA pricing in line with company objectives.
- You will oversee web pricing process and ensure it’s correct to company pricing guidelines.
- Ensuring pricing within trading standard guidelines will be of the upmost importance.
- You will additionally have responsibility for liaising with retail buyers to ensure product development in line with retail needs.
- You will carry out the generating of reports for our finance team.
Working for Trespass
- You will receive 30 days holiday (increasing to 32 by 2 years’ service) to ensure you keep a healthy work-life balance and have lots of exciting plans in place to look forward to
- Benefit from our corporate discounts for you, your friends and family, making the most of the great outdoors
- Relaxed dress code
- Free parking as there is nothing worse than parking metres and additional costs, meaning…. buy the coffee!
- Full access to our fantastic Employee Assistance Programme and much more!
We want like-minded, committed individuals to join us and be part of our continued success so if this sounds like a good fit for you then we welcome you to apply.
Salary information will be determined by experience and fit and decided at point of offer, however, if you have any questions relating to this, please get in touch.
