<dt class="rm-fieldTitle">Description</dt><dd class="rm-fieldData"><h2 class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 8pt;" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Junior Merchandiser | Edinburgh | Hybrid Working | £28,000 - £30,000 </span></h2><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">We're partnering with the <span class="">UK's largest retailer within their market</span>, a business that has proudly operated for <span class="">over 150 years</span>, with a vast store estate and a powerful national e-commerce presence. This is a fantastic next-step Merchandising opportunity where you'll play a key role in shaping how your category performs, balancing analysis, commercial decision-making, and forward planning to drive sales, profit and range success.</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">As a <span class="">Junior Merchandiser</span>, you'll take ownership of essential trading tools, support the day-to-day management of department performance, and work closely with your Merchandiser to ensure stock, forecasting and strategy all land exactly where they need to. You'll partner closely with Buying, lead junior team members, and help build robust seasonal plans that optimise sales while minimising risk.</span></p><h1 class=" axiom1-1 axiom-scraped-1"><span class="" style="font-size: 8pt;">What You'll Be Doing:</span></h1><ul class=""><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Build, maintain and continuously refine reporting dashboards for your department, ensuring insights are timely, accurate and commercially useful.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Track daily line-level performance and adjust your sales forecasts accordingly, communicating weekly to your Merchandiser and highlighting emerging OTB opportunities.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Own and update the WSSI, producing monthly reforecasts and identifying where phasing, cancellations or stock pulls are needed to protect margin and sell-through.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Work hand-in-hand with the Buyer on range building, sharing data-led recommendations on bestsellers, move-ons and emerging trends.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Support the development of clear seasonal plans, factoring in trend shifts, sales history and market conditions to build a balanced, profitable assortment.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Collaborate with junior team members to run daily system uploads, generate trading reports and ensure accuracy across all critical path and delivery schedules.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Partner with stores and store management teams to understand customer profiles, gather qualitative feedback and ensure operational challenges are escalated quickly.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Conduct deep-dive analysis into past seasons, market trends and category behaviours to identify risks early and highlight growth opportunities.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Work with Space Planning to ensure ranges land cleanly, planograms are executed correctly, and replenishment settings maximise availability.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Support the creation of trade summaries, strategy packs and lessons-learnt documents, feeding confidently into discussions with senior management.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Help maintain the buying calendar and critical path, ensuring all milestones - from sign-off to delivery - hit the required timelines.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Contribute to pricing architecture decisions, ensuring ranges are competitive in the market while supporting promotional planning when needed.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Build strong supplier relationships to ensure fast problem-solving and a smooth flow of stock.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Play a key role in driving divisional KPIs across sales, stock, intake, margin and markdown performance.</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Ensure stores have the right stock levels both on the shop floor and in the stockroom, supporting the team to meet store-level KPIs.</span></p></li></ul><h1 class=" axiom1-2 axiom-scraped-1"><span class="" style="font-size: 8pt;">Key Working Relationships</span></h1><ul class=""><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Merchandising &amp; Buying teams</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Store Management &amp; Store Teams</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Product, Space Planning, Supply Chain and Suppliers</span></p></li><li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Wider Commercial &amp; Trading Teams</span></p></li></ul><p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">BH34991</span></p></dd>