Merchandiser

Role Overview

Merchandising and Planning

• Own merchandising strategy and commercial performance for assigned Gold categories or collections across stores and markets.
• Develop assortment plans by market, store cluster, and product category, maintaining appropriate product breadth and depth.
• Manage Open-to-Buy (OTB) across sales, inventory, intake, and forecast planning.
• Develop and update forecasts using historical performance, trends, seasonality, gold price movements, and market requirements.
• Analyze performance by category, collection, product group, store, and market; identify risks and recommend actions.

Inventory and Product Lifecycle

• Monitor stock availability, weeks of cover, sell-through, ROS, inventory turn, and aged stock; address overstock and out-of-stock situations.
• Manage store and market inventory flow through transfers, replenishment, and stock rebalancing.
• Partner with Retail and Supply Chain on stock availability and timely merchandising actions.
• Manage lifecycle actions from launch through replenishment, markdown, clearance, and final liquidation.
• Develop aged-stock and liquidation strategies balancing inventory recovery, margin, and brand positioning.

Pricing, Reporting, and Data

• Execute gold-rate-driven price changes, ticket updates, promotional pricing, and permanent markdowns accurately and on time.
• Monitor gold price impacts on product pricing, demand, sales, and inventory value; recommend appropriate actions.
• Prepare weekly and monthly commercial performance reviews with trends, gaps, risks, and recommendations.
• Maintain accurate product hierarchy, attributes, collection mapping, pricing, discount codes, and lifecycle status.
• Work with IT and business teams on product data architecture, system enhancements, and merchandising tools.
• Support annual and seasonal planning for sales, inventory, assortment, and intake targets; improve inventory productivity and sales performance.

Qualifications and Skills

• At least five years of retail merchandising experience, preferably in jewellery, luxury, fashion, or another inventory-intensive retail environment.
• Strong experience in assortment planning, OTB, inventory management, forecasting, and product lifecycle management.
• Strong commercial understanding of sales, stock, margin, sell-through, ROS, weeks of cover, and inventory turn.
• Advanced MS Excel proficiency, including data analysis, forecasting, and large datasets.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, translating data into commercial actions and recommendations.
• Planning and allocation system experience; understanding of product and master-data structures is an advantage.
• Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, highly commercial environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, attention to detail, ownership, and accountability.
• Proactive, commercially minded, data-driven, and able to identify process improvements.
• Gold or jewellery merchandising experience is highly advantageous.