Assistant Merchandiser Job Description
Assistant merchandiser
provides analysis to support the development of Department seasonal strategies that meet financial targets and align to the divisional strategy.
Assistant Merchandiser Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Provide and analyze product performance at a department, classification, style, color, and size level, and react appropriately to sales trends
Manage all PLM data entry to ensure delivery and prices in all currencies are all up to date
Partner with the Corporate Pricing team to understand price-bands across the three core currencies and report back findings to the Merchandising team
Reviews “on order status”
Visits stores and shops competitors to understand promotional strategies and customer base
Producing insightful analysis for the team and wider business
Forecast sales and stocks on department WSSI and manage the department’s continuity business
Completing seasonal markdown
Attend all weekly WIP meetings
Conducts daily audits of the site to check depth and high exposure product is being surfaced and attractively presented
Assistant Merchandiser Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Assistant Merchandiser
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: NGMO
Education for Assistant Merchandiser
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the assistant merchandiser job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Merchandising, Business, Fashion, Fashion Merchandising, Education, Economics, Management, Psychology, Marketing, Design
Skills for Assistant Merchandiser
Desired skills for assistant merchandiser include:
Financial measurements
Merchandising systems
Retail financial measurements
Ability to impact financial outcomes
End to end buy to store process
M&S brand and sub-brand strategy
Overall department to be able to provide team members with all requested information
Willingness to learn about overseas markets & cultures
MS Office
Retail math
Desired experience for assistant merchandiser includes:
Sensivity for fashion
You have minimum 1 year's experience as a visual merchandiser or 2 as a sales assistant at a clothing store
Significant commercial experience gained in a fashion retail merchandising environment and should show an understanding of the luxury sector
Experience using the wssi and/or other forecasting tools will be highly desirable
Uses initiative and strives to be the best
College degree, 0 – 3 years’ of experience in merchandising
Assistant Merchandiser Examples
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Assistant Merchandiser Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of assistant merchandiser. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for assistant merchandiser
- Manage execution of website projects/maintenance requests including product page enhancements & suggestive selling tools, editorial content features & navigational enhancements for assigned areas of the business
- Manage and maintain all brand boutiques for assigned areas of the business
- Partner with Site Coordination to ensure category merchandising is reflective of merchandising strategies for assigned areas of the business
- Leverage website analytics to understand performance and customer interaction with categories, featured product placement, and general online shopping experiences to help identify opportunities and risks
- Execute category merchandising for marketing channels driving online traffic
- Represent assigned areas of the business in creative execution meetings when needed
- Collaborate across merchandising, buying and photography teams to coordinate sample shoots
- Manage and track external and internal flow of samples
- Serve as a liaison to all vendors in regards to samples
- Proactively work with vendors to ensure all copy information is received and accurate
Qualifications for assistant merchandiser
- 2-3 years of industry and field related experience required
- Previous online visual merchandising experience in a luxury retail environment with knowledge of luxury fashion brands, including previous and current collections
- High sense of commercial awareness with creative flair and affinity for luxury fashion product
- Proven track record of managing multiple tasks to tight deadlines
- Must have at least 1-2 years of experience in a specialty corporate retail environment
- Must have a strong desire to work in the fashion industry with an ability to identify and foresee fashion trends
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of assistant merchandiser. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for assistant merchandiser
- Partner with styling teams to gather appropriate pairings for shoots
- Partnering with Copy and Retouching teams to troubleshoot through photography production status
- Partnering with all teams to ensure all timelines and collection launch dates are met
- Paginate categories on a daily and weekly basis to ensure the website looks new and exciting and displays our newest products
- Leverage marketing and merchandising assets for categories, designers, and editorial content
- Maintain and QA web data to ensure quality images, copy, color
- Establish and manage a Merchandising Calendar for the At Home side, including relevant SEO-copy, banner and design direction, relevant curated category creation, and engaging customer experiences through merchandising options
- Manage the department’s continuity business, including monthly WSSI reforecasts
- Prepare all necessary documentations, GPA, WO, ESR, on-time report
- Present monthly best/worst sellers to merchandising & design teams
Qualifications for assistant merchandiser
- Must be up-to-date on domestic and international fashion trends
- Must be able to effectively communicate, written and orally, with direct supervisors and all level of employees
- Must have basic Microsoft Word and Excel skills, specifically for data entry and logging purposes
- Minimum 3 years of merchandising and/or marketing experience
- Ability to create relationships and work cross functionally
- Ability to analyze and package results leading to actionable recommendations
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for an assistant merchandiser. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for assistant merchandiser
- Monitor all partner sites for brand placement, product placement, pricing strategy, image quality, and other creative direction
- Partner with internal marketing teams to execute digital marketing needs by account, both on a seasonal basis and weekly to react to market trends
- Assist merchandising/marketing to create compelling product copy to be used across all accounts
- Partner with both internal creative team and account creative teams to develop strong brand visuals (product images for site use, banners, click-throughs, videos)
- Work closely with internal brand leaders to translate key in store initiatives to the online space (outposts, sale handles, traffic driving events)
- Lead online Best & Worst seller review, developing strategy on how to leverage best practices across sites
- Work with field marketing to understand key initiatives in stores and translate to web
- Gain expert knowledge on competition in the digital space and assist sales team in reacting to competitive challenges
- Seasonal product planning, taking into account market lessons learnt, brand objectives
- Support managing the success of the direct channel by driving seasonal business strategies that meet or exceed financial goals
Qualifications for assistant merchandiser
- Highly motivated, resourceful, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- 1-2 years online merchandising or relevant experience
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize projects efficiently
- Overall general knowledge of fashion regarding fabrications, trends and seasonal calendar
- Experience in website/retail consumer merchandising and content management experience
- An interest in Online Merchandising and an eye for what makes the customer tick and looks good in the online space
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of assistant merchandiser. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for assistant merchandiser
- Manage overall business for a particular direct category
- Partner with Buying, Planning and Marketing Teams to develop / execute direct [print/digital] key concepts, key items, assortments and promotional strategies
- Provide support in developing focused layout [print/digital], home pages and emails that will be an impact on overall demand and gross margin
- Provide support in analyzing the ranking of all styles within each dept
- Responsible for all product turn ins
- Responsible for proofing accuracy of all direct marketing collateral
- Provide support in choosing the merchandising flow in the print/digital and communicating this to the Marketing Department
- Providing support for weekly email / web promo’s maintaining / improving web sortations by category
- Responsible for tracking and procuring samples for Direct
- Provide weekly reports with current sales
Qualifications for assistant merchandiser
- Experience modifying and creating web graphics (using Adobe Creative Suite, and Adobe Professional) a plus
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree or higher
- Luxury footwear and accessories experience highly preferred
- Prepare and analyze daily/weekly sales reports and propose appropriate actions
- Assist in the development of the strategic plan for Menswear to deliver strategic direction for the category
- Conduct competitive analysis including pricing analysis to provide guidance during market
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Our company is hiring for an assistant merchandiser. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for assistant merchandiser
- Working closely with peers to help create a best in class merch function
- Help to deliver the planned sales and profitability of the department by managing and optimising the categories through effective planning and trading
- Warehouse Availability
- Wholesale and Franchise fulfilment performance
- Supplier OTIF performance
- On time availability for NPD
- Inventory efficiency
- Provide support to VP of Merchandising
- Review weekly selling from all channels and create best and slow seller reports
- Assist in the development of recuts and exclusive packages
Qualifications for assistant merchandiser
- Assist in preparing the seasonal buy books and trainings for stores
- Assist in the buy process with merchandisers
- Manage all order data entry and follow up with Customer Service to ensure all orders are up to date
- Liase with stores to fulfill product requests and feedback
- Diploma or degree in merchandising or textile-related discipline with at least 2-3 years relevant job experience is required
- Ability to work multi-task