Junior Merchandiser

Junior Merchandiser | Scaling Brand | £35,000 - £40,000 + Flexi Hours + Bonus and Wider Benefits

This is one of the UK's fastest-growing performance brands consistently leading the way over the past few years and showing no signs of slowing down. With ambitious plans to expand further across UK retail and into the US market, the business is entering a pivotal stage of growth, ready to disrupt its category and define the next era of performance-led brands.

As momentum builds, so does the opportunity.

We are now looking for a commercially driven and detail-focused Junior Merchandiser to join their growing merchandising team. This is a key role within the function; supporting strategic planning, protecting stock health, and ensuring the right product is in the right place at the right time as the brand scales.

As their Junior Merchandiser:

You will take full ownership of planning, trading, and stock management across the business. You will operate both strategically and tactically, building robust processes from the ground up while driving day-to-day commercial performance whilst reporting into their Senior Merchandiser.

This is a hands-on role for someone comfortable working in the grey, confident in their decisions, and motivated by accountability. You will influence product strategy, challenge performance, and provide clear direction backed by data.

This is a rare opportunity for someone bold, commercially driven, and ready to roll up their sleeves. If you want to move beyond maintaining spreadsheets and instead shape performance, process, and progression this could be a defining next step in your career.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and deliver weekly trading analysis, reporting on KPIs across sales, stock, margin, and markdown with clear actions and recommendations.
• Review over- and under-performance at product level, proactively managing risk and maximising opportunity.
• Produce weekly and seasonal performance reports for senior leadership.
• Conduct detailed ad-hoc analysis to support strategic decision-making.
• Deliver in-depth seasonal analysis to inform forward strategy and lessons learned.
• Build and manage seasonal merchandising plans aligned to brand strategy and sales targets.
• Own WSSI planning at department and sub-category level, forecasting demand, OTB, returns, and margin.
• Manage OTB, intake, budgets, and markdown strategies to drive stock efficiency.
• Create category frameworks and product mix plans to support long-term department growth.
• Identify categories to grow, maintain, or exit based on data and potential.
• Partner closely with Design and Buying to shape ranges, size curves, and levels of newness.
• Manage line cards to maintain core availability, suggesting and managing rebuys of core styles.
• Support product selection and range building to ensure alignment with customer demand and financial targets.
• Protect bestsellers while balancing newness and de-risking the overall stock file.
• Manage allocation and replenishment to optimise availability and sell-through.
• Oversee the order-raising process, ensuring POs align with buy plans and ratios are accurate.
• Manage critical path, stock ordering, and delivery schedules - working closely with suppliers to ensure on-time launches.
• Forecast intake and manage delivery flow to support sustainable scaling.
• Build and evolve merchandising processes, reporting structures, and trade documents from scratch.
• Establish strong cross-functional relationships across design, buying, logistics, and senior leadership.
• Deputise where required and support the development of junior team members as the function grows.

Why This Role Is Different:

• High visibility across the entire business.
• Direct access to senior stakeholders and genuine influence over brand direction, reporting day to day into a senior merchandiser.
• Opportunity to build infrastructure that will scale with growth.
• Long-term, sustainable career progression within a brand on the rise.