Alpkit (United Kingdom) - We're after a helping hand in our buying team to place orders and keep us in stock. We strive to help people Go Nice Places and Do Good Things, and you'll play a key part in this by making sure those products that let us do just that are ready and waiting for all those budding adventurers out there.
Purpose of the Role:
To help us execute our category and range plans within clothing, camping and equipment. To help drive growth in Alpkit’s core categories and deliver expectations in sales, stock and margin.
Responsibilities:
The successful applicant will be responsible for...
Sales:
- Working with our product team to deliver relevant and competitive product line plans.
- Ensuring maximum product availability across multiple ranges.
- Driving stock-to-shop process for products under your remit – communicating developments with marketing, content, stores and customer service to ensure effective product launch.
- Ensuring effective web merchandising of clothing, camping and equipment categories.
- Promotion planning.
Stock:
- In stock management; identifying order requirements.
- Placing orders with suppliers around the globe (Far East weighting) and managing them through the process from order to delivery.
- Supplier management: building relationships and relentlessly improving terms.
- Operate within strict stock value budgets across multiple categories using tools such as WSSI to control stock levels.
- Identify long stocks; develop and execute methods to tackle them.
- Managing day to day payments with accounts team. Maintaining payment list out six months.
- Co-ordinating shipping and delivery. Forwarder management and communicating with Alpkit’s operations teams.
- Overseeing stock counts and owning stock accuracy for categories in your area of responsibility.
Margin:
- Ensure strict budgetary control over cost and sell to ensure that product developments meet margin expectations and maximise profitability.
- Delivering commercial and operational sight over the product range: MOQs, lead-times, supply chain efficiency, etc.
- Minimise drift between planned and achieved margin; understand causes and develop processes to counter.
Key Relationships:
- Web store manager.
- Marketing team.
- Product team.
- Finance.
- Warehouse.
About You:
Preferred Experience:
- Experience in a commercial buying or merchandising team.
- Experience with key merchandising tools such as WSSI.
- Experience managing supply chains including the Far East.
- High competence with Microsoft applications with particularly strong Excel skills.
Key Competencies:
- Customer focused.
- Hunger for learning and personal development.
- Ingrained in the outdoor and cycling culture.
- Negotiation.
- Analysis.
- Forecasting.
- Numeracy.
- Problem-solving.
- Communication.
- Team work.
- Able to manage multiple deadlines and prioritise workload in a challenging environment.
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