Buying and Merchandising Analyst

Summary

Join Swoon as a Buying and Merchandising Analyst to drive operational processes, inform decision making for product range and design team, and develop designs that customers love. This role involves developing a framework to direct designers on future best sellers, building and maintaining ordering models, and managing stock budget investment.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience of an analytical role across merch/ buying/supply chain
• Numerate degree (economics, maths, etc)
• Advanced excel, SQL (willingness to learn SQL)
• Excellent communicator of complex ideas with a logical mindset and drive to create simple repeatable rulesets
• Ability to work with ambiguity and get the job done with imperfect information and limited resources
• Excellent organisational skills to juggle and prioritise competing projects
• Team player, good at collaborating and engaging with people

Responsibilities

• Ordering continuity range and managing stock budget investment
• Owning discontinuation process and cash recovery
• Signing off the newness tendering (RRP, Intake margin) and investment
• Coordinating annual range budget and quarterly forecasting
• Briefing design on where to focus in our design cycles
• Prioritising new sub-category opportunities for investment
• Developing propositions for new category investment
• Signing off on white label/brand investments for non-core categories
• Reporting on range performance and stock in weekly and monthly trading meetings
• Running regular range reviews

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Share options programme
• Profit share scheme
• Wellbeing allowance
• Pension scheme
• Private medical cover for you and your family
• Holidays, working environment and other perks
• 27 days holiday rising to 30 with tenure
• 4 months of summer hours finishing at 1 PM on a Friday (we’re currently trialling rolling this out permanently!)
• Free furniture on each anniversary of employment
• Friends & family discount of 20%
• Fully remote working
• Frequent meet-ups, in-person workshops and socials