| Having fun is a serious business at this company! They love entertaining their customer base with sparkling promotions and adorable merchandise. Behind the scenes they have created a world that is even more exciting: a highly focused retail organisation offering exceptional opportunities to talented people who share their sense of Magic. This is a superb opportunity to join the team and establish a career in Merchandising as an Allocator with a major retailer. Merchandising is about planning and developing a strategy to enable a company to sell a range of products that delivers sales and profit targets. A merchandiser will work closely with a Buyer to ensure the product that's bought will enable them to achieve the sales plan. It is often explained as getting the right merchandise, in the right place, at the right time, in the right quantities at the right price. However, this does not take into consideration all the planning and strategy that goes on prior to getting the stock into stores. Graduates start their careers at Allocator level, where you learn the ground rules of the business and all the merchandising principles. Your main responsibility will be to analyse data for weekly reviews of sales and assist the Merchandiser in following the merchandise plans by allocating stock to the stores. You will also be given responsibility for chasing suppliers for delivery of stock to the right place, on time. You must have excellent numerical skills, so education to degree level is preferred (i.e. Maths, Statistics, Business Studies or Geography) although this is not an exclusive requirement. You must also have some solid retail experience. The business is able to offer a great starting salary and excellent benefits package. |