# Asst Merchandiser Advanced - Brands

**Company**: Marks & Spencer
**Location**: United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As an Assistant Merchandiser Advanced - Brands at Marks & Spencer, you will play a pivotal role in delivering the M&S Brands strategic ambition to introduce and grow the third-party Brands offer.

Your key accountabilities will include:

- Formulating a detailed monthly plan of products to be offered across all channels to meet customer requirements, taking full responsibility for a range or department where necessary.

- Working collaboratively with Buying counterparts to build and maintain product ranges that grow and improve M&S style credentials.

- Booking quantities to meet launch and in-season variables across all channels, maintaining strong availability of continuity product through regular size reviews and forecasting, and delivering in-season actions that maximise sales and profit and meet agreed targets.

- Building and maintaining strong brand relationships, monitoring sales and range performance and liaising with brands to react and amend, while presenting regular business reviews, working flexibly across dropship, consignment and wholesale models, and coaching Merchandising Admin Assistants.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- Current experience at Assistant Merchandiser level in a fast-paced retailer, with knowledge of the end-to-end buy to channel process.

- Strong Merchandising skills including development of Department Plan, stock/commitment management, creating sales estimates and managing GSM.

- Strong numerical, analytical and interpretive skills.

- Strong relationship building and communication skills, with the ability to initiate and build relationships with brand partners and key stakeholders, influencing where needed.

- Experience managing and setting direction for a team, motivating & developing reports, deputising responsibilities and leading through change, with resilience and openness to change.

In return for your hard work, we offer a range of benefits, including:

- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for someone in the household, available once probation is complete

- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more

- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to individual and business performance

- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future

- Tailored induction and training to support development from day one

- Exclusive perks and savings through the M&S Choices portal

- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave

- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services

- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters

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## Skills

### Required
- Merchandising
- Department Plan
- stock management
- sales estimates
- GSM
- numerical analysis
- relationship building
- communication
- team management

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