Junior Merchandiser - #144470

Are you a commercially minded and analytical merchandiser looking for that next step in their career? At Hobbs we are looking for a Junior Merchandiser to join us on a 12 month contract, starting ASAP.

As the Junior Merchandiser, you'll play a vital role in driving the performance of the knitwear and jersey department. You'll be involved in achieving seasonal targets across sales, profit, margin and stock. With a strong grasp of commercial metrics, you'll positively discover opportunities on the knitwear and jersey department and propose solutions to shape future trading and planning.

What you’ll do:

• Truly own the knitwear and jersey department's journey, with guidance from the Merchandising Manager, driving its financial success.
• Carefully manage our department WSSI(s), ensuring we hit our sales targets while being smart about markdowns and stock levels, proactively flagging any areas where we can improve or benefit from on successes.
• Get involved right from the start, initiating and managing our new season Category Plans and building block strategies for each product type.
• Help shape how we price our products and plan our attributes, ensuring our ranges are commercially strong.
• Bring your fresh ideas and commercial thinking to the table, actively contributing to how we can constantly improve the department's performance.

Who you’ll be:

As a Junior Merchandiser, you'll be someone who keeps a close eye on our competitors, using the insights you gather to help shape our pricing strategies. You'll play a crucial role in our end-of-season decision-making, proposing markdowns that strategically balance our margin and stock targets. Your contributions will be vital to our future success, you'll also be encouraged to be curious and proactive, taking the lead to carry out ad hoc analysis as needed.

What's in it for you?

Across the TFG Brands, we pride ourselves on having our people at the heart of everything we do. We will give you the tools and the time to develop your career in the direction you want to go. Alongside that, we have some great benefits which include:

• Hobbs Employee Discount of 70%, and 50% discount with Phase Eight and Whistles, as per the TFG Brands Discount Policy
• Up to 28 days holiday entitlement per annum in addition to the usual public and bank holidays
• Financial and Wellbeing assistance
• Enhanced Maternity package
• Virtual GP service – unlimited access 24/7
• Plus much more!

About Us

At TFG Brands We Care, We Connect, We Collaborate and We Create. We have four brands in our portfolio: our iconic fashion brands Phase Eight, Whistles and Hobbs as well as our luxury Homewares brand Inside Story. We aren’t stopping there though, we have plans to grow beyond this in multiple retail sectors.

TFG London Inclusion and Diversity statement of commitment:

At TFG London and across all our brands we are committed to creating an inclusive culture that welcomes, develops and celebrates a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, cultural references and ideas and opinions within our business.

We are working together to ensure our environment is one where difference is not only respected but encouraged and celebrated and people can bring their authentic, unique selves to work, where their contribution is valued, ability enhanced, and perspective appreciated.