Working for Joe Browns

The Role:

This role will be focused within a clothing and apparel environment. You will be responsible for overseeing the supply chain, helping with key business activities and strategies and work cross functionally with various departments across the business to deliver on key KPI’s.

You will lead your Merchandising team to maximise commercial opportunities by effective inventory and stock management, plus ensure that the departmental back- office tasks and administration is completed in line with the critical path and with complete accuracy.

Principle Mission:

Be the central point for collation of all product attribute information and set up details. Provide insight on the supply chain to help shape the longer-term sourcing and trading strategy for the company

Main Responsibilities:

Being the top-level functional expert for the Merchandising team and actively seeking to solve issues and present solutions to the Merchandising Director. You will be able to prioritise opportunities ensuring actions with the biggest value get completed first and drive this behaviour throughout your team:

• You will drive improved performance and customer experience through exceptional stock management
• Help develop and implement new strategies to minimise markdown without compromising cash margin
• Owning the critical path. Challenging risk and agree actions with the team to ensure that together you achieve on time launch
• Manage all the product system set ups with total accuracy and subsequent checks of all catalogue pages and product web set ups
• Control and manage costs relating to supply chain
• Manage all purchase order placement, timely delivery schedules, stock receipts, stock transfers, pricelists including markdowns
• Merchandising of product additions and deletions and managing seasonal capacity planning
• Manage a small team of merchandisers, monitoring performance, and setting KPIs and develop a high performing team
• Plan workloads across the team
• Regular liaison with suppliers
• Monthly Reporting to the Senior Management Team

Business Skills Required:

• Experience of managing a similar Factory Base
• Clothing/Footwear/Accessories factories and knowledge of how they operate
• Thorough knowledge of the planning process and the ability to motivate, inspire and lead those around them
• History of achieving results
• Excellent management and interpersonal skills
• Excellent attention to detail and level of accuracy
• High level capacity planning skills and the ability to juggle multiple tasks to fixed deadlines
• Management of a small team, remotely and in-house
• Excellent Negotiation and persuasion skills to manage timely deliveries
• Product and product quality knowledge
• Logical approach with excellent problem-solving skills
• Budget/Cost Control and Stock Management experience
• Critical Path Management
• Communicate and interact interdepartmentally and at all levels
• Able to develop and motivate a highly effective team
• Wider commercial thinking to engage and influence key stakeholders across the business and ensure profit growth is core to all decisions made

Core Values:

This role would suit a team player with a positive attitude who is prepared to roll their sleeves up and lead by example, as well as encompassing “The fabric of Joe Browns”

• We enjoy and believe in what we do - or we don't do it
• We are fair, well-mannered and respectful, never weak.
• We help each other to succeed - colleagues, partners and customers.
• We are creative and push boundaries - we don't just accept
• We create a positive environment

Salary will be competitive.

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