merchandising ADMINISTRATOR
This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a creative fun and yet highly commercial environment , joining us at a time of continued growth and expansion and we offer an exceptional benefits package including 30 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, free parking and early finish on a Friday
Overview of the role
As Merchandising Assistant, you will be supporting our New Product Development team to manage the administration of our new samples. Working with both our sales teams and our customers to ensure our new products are correctly administered, liaising with our factory in China, processing sample briefs and orders, completing new product line forms for customers and ensuring our sales teams have all our new samples for presentations
As our ideal candidate, you will be highly organised and proactive administrator, calm and unflappable as working on multiple projects at any one time. EXCEL skills are essential and experience of SAP would be ideal. However more important is having excellent data input skills, an exceptional eye for detail, is meticulous and thorough.
Principal Accountabilities
Managing sample requests, including all paperwork and recording of stock movements.
Completing customer new line forms.
Completing monthly picture price lists for sales.
Supporting the merchandisers in preparing factory briefs for sourcing.
Setting up new items on SAP and making necessary updates to product information during the project.
Setting up specification sheets and purchasing forms.
Supporting the merchandisers in the preparation of pre-production samples for review and taking ownership of the organisation, storage and archiving of samples.
Assisting Merchandisers in any required ad hoc tasks
Skill Set Requirements
Any experience in merchandising administration role would be ideal as would experience in FMCG environment, but full training will be given to a first class Administrator/Coordinator with experience of managing multiple projects
Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
Ability to manage multiple tasks at once working to tight deadlines, strong time management skills
Independent and proactive.
Enthusiastic and energetic.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.