Merchandiser

At Seasalt we live and breathe our product and are proud of the exceptional quality and level of care we take in design and sourcing, to deliver beautiful garments which are loved by our customers. Based on the Cornish coast, we're a multi-channel lifestyle brand with over 70 shops across the UK & Ireland, over 400 wholesale stockists and a growing online business.

As a Merchandiser within our Product Merchandising team, you’ll work collaboratively with other teams to deliver a balanced, commercial and profitable range in line with Seasalt’s brand vision, strengthening our market position and proposing new opportunities.

You’ll manage the product trading requirements to maintain the appropriate levels of stock in the department and categories, whilst maximising product margin. Collaborating across teams, you’ll ensure analysis and information is in place to guide current and future range content.

Please note, as part of our Seasalt Connected approach to ways of working, this role will be based flexibly across our Cornwall Head Offices (minimum 40% of working week) and remotely within the UK.

You’ll Help Us By

Working with the Head of Merchandising and Merchandise Manager to ensure seasonal and departmental budgets/forecasts are thought through by channel (retail, online, and partners) and analysed in context of historical sales and seasons to be fully traded. Working with Buying and Design, you’ll ensure that product reviews are held with department heads at the appropriate time for product sign-off, while working together to plan bestselling product blocks and bestselling styles, ensuring an appropriate level of newness in range builds and that product attributes are being analysed during the range build process.

Attending trade meetings, you’ll present product trade performance summaries on a weekly basis to keep all functions aware of trading strengths and weakness and likely actions. You’ll ensure current product/category/department trading opportunities or challenges are being reflected in future season range builds and existing signed off ranges. Working with Channel Merchandising, you’ll prepare and present lessons learnt for each launch and phase, proposing and implementing actions for future launches and seasons.

You’ll communicate the business strategic priorities and translate into measurable goals and targets for the Merchandising teams.

You’ll develop the skills of the Merchandising teams and identify individual training needs, as well as encouraging effective teamwork, motivating the teams and giving recognition and praise when appropriate.

The Skills You’ll Be Sharing With The Team

• Previous experience in a Merchandiser or Junior Merchandiser role with experience in planning product.
• Experience of range building, planning and trading.
• Experience of leading a team would be advantageous.
• Highly analytical and commercially aware, with a strong understanding of competitors.
• Experience of motivating individuals or a team to achieve results.
• Strong planning and strategy development skills.
• Good IT skills.
• Ability to analyse data and produce reports.
• Strong commercial aptitude and customer focus.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence.
• Good problem-solving skills, able to overcome issues, propose solutions and make commercial decisions.
• Ability to perform under pressure and work towards deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  
  

Why We Hope You’ll Love Working With Us

The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We don't just want to attract the best and brightest people to come and work with us, we want you to stay and grow with us. From the moment your Seasalt journey begins, it's our pledge to support you by providing dedicated learning and development opportunities that will enhance your day-to-day working life and help you build your skills and knowledge.

Benefits

As well as doing everything we can to boost your development professionally, we believe encouraging personal growth is just as important. So you can fulfil your passion and purpose, not just at work but in life, we offer a range of benefits that are designed to enhance your career and wellbeing:

• Salary: £36,000 - £40,000 depending on experience (Band 3)
• 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
• Attractive 50% employee discount
• Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package
• Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support
• Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions
• Life assurance programme
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Flexible working opportunities with our ‘blended’ working approach
• Learning and Development opportunities including specialist training, coaching opportunities, and professional qualification support
• Paid volunteering opportunities
• Employee networks to develop and provide support to our people, including the Inclusion Network and Culture Crew
• 100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub
  
  

At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people – they're what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer, we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles.

We aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives - diversity of thought helps us to grow – so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. We're happy to help with any adjustments to our recruitment process and beyond. Just drop us an email at [email protected]