Merchandiser
🚀 We’re Hiring: Merchandiser
📍 Location: Onsite, Worsley
🕒 Full-time Full time, OFFICE BASED| Competitive Salary + Perks
The Company
Online Home Shop (OHS) are one of the fastest growing online home retailers in the North-West. We aim to offer on-trend products for home and life, for a price that suits all budgets. OHS have everything from the latest bedding styles, soft towels, throws, curtains, rugs and best-selling hoodie blankets.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Merchandiser to join our team to predominantly assist the head of department in maintaining the smooth operation of a fast-moving environment. You will be responsible for planning product ranges and managing budgets on behalf of organizations to help predict sales and make smarter decisions in the future.
🛍️ What You’ll Be Doing
- Work closely with the Buying team to plan new product ranges based on historical sales analysis, market trends, lost potential and any new product opportunities.
- To be responsible for forecasting forward sales and intake requirements for a given range of products.
- Manage the intake of stock within given stock turn targets, finding a balance between maximising availability while keeping stockholding to a minimum.
- Liaising with factories and the Product Development Team to ensure shipment dates are met for ongoing and new lines.
- Review historical sales figures and record lessons learned on a continuous basis.
- Recognising when issues need to be flagged up to the Head of Merchandising - with suggestions on how the issue can be rectified.
- Track performance v plan and take actions that will minimise markdown spend and potentialise an opportunity to beat plan.
- Manage sales and stock availability across multiple sales channels.
💡 What You’ll Bring
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a Merchandiser role.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience of using merchandising software tools to manage sales, stock, intake and margin.
- Strong sales forecasting skills.
- Inquisitive, analytical mind that drives department performance.
- Strong communication skills and are able to challenge to all levels effectively.
- Attention to detail and the ability to spot anomalies, suggesting courses of action to mitigate issues.
- Able to spot key product opportunities and maximise the potential of these by moving at pace.
- Able to own a product range and drive its performance.
- Can build strong relationships with key suppliers in order to optimise due dates and improve critical path management on the team.
- Enthusiastic & able to work cooperatively with other product teams, as well as teams within the broader business.
- Able to work in a fast paced environment and meet deadlines whilst ensuring accuracy of work is maintained.
Desirable
- Experience of working with Far East factories
- Critical Path management
- WSSI management
- End to end budget planning
- Strong data evaluation and numeracy
Why Join Us?
- Fast-moving collaborative company culture
- Regular company social events
- 25 days holiday
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- On-site parking
- Gift box and early finish on your birthday
- Free electric car charging points
👀 Sound Like You?
At OHS, you won’t just join a team — you’ll be part of a fast-moving retail success story. If you’re ambitious, collaborative, and excited by scale, apply today and help shape the future of home shopping in the UK.
📩 Apply now!
Note for Recruiters: We do not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies. Any CV's submitted without a signed agreement in place will be considered our property, and we will not be liable for any fees should we choose to engage the candidate.
We operate a preferred supplier list (PSL) and will only accept submissions from agencies on that list who have been instructed to work on the role.
