International Area Management

Participate in Trade calls, collect and champion the weekly store performance across your territory.
Analyse weekly performance and recommend necessary actions to drive product performance across all product categories together with regional merchandising teams.
Coordinate the flow of information across the business; communicate information from the international regions to the head office and vice versa.
Work closely together with local merchandising teams to drive sell through and product performance KPIs.
Conduct regular competitor reviews, understanding their offers and activities.
Complete market visits and build strong relationships with Store Leaders and Area Managers to improve area’s performances.
Work with Visual Merchandising team on monthly drop plans; ensure store layouts are the right balance of sale trends and brand image.
Act as the international champion within the UK head office by working collaboratively with the wider business, including Marketing, Product Management, Digital and Retail Operations.

Stock & Sales Management

Oversee and manage the weekly flow of sales data from international regions to head office.
Prepare and manage weekly international shipments based on KPI’s, new launches and local activities.
Prepare and provide the despatch forecast for your territory to share with central warehouse.
Prepare and plan the IDS levels.
Work closely with Group Planning to ensure stock is maintained at an optimum level through re-buys and re-phasing of intake.
Monitor and control intake; ensure commitment is accurate and in line with business expectation.
Ensure that the decision-making tools (Line forecast, retail forecast) reflect the most accurate trading position on Sales, Stock, Intake and Margin.
Prepare monthly forecast reports, considering actual in-season performances.
Prepare ad hoc reports of current performance; providing analysis, pro-active interpretation, communicating and recommended actions.
Build key relationships with Customer Services, Commercial and Warehouse to optimise the flow of products within the business (deliveries, returns, recalls) to meet business objectives.
Build and maintain seasonal reports such as sell through, PGR, budgets and communicate with relevant teams.
Responsible for completion of markdown planning, reporting and analysis.
Accountable for achieving seasonal Full Price sell through targets for international regions.

Junior Merchandiser