Ecommerce Assistant Merchandiser

JD Outdoors:

Reporting to:         Junior Merchandiser

Department: Outdoors Multichannel Merchandising Team

Location: Bury

Hours: 40 hours per week

Key Objective:       

The purpose of this role is to ensure product gets online in an accurate and timely fashion, whilst maintaining the look and feel of the websites to maximise conversion & ultimately drive sales while supporting the Junior Merchandisers on a day-to-day basis.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that new product is online as quickly and efficiently as possible. Working directly with the B&M team, using intake calendars to build out and manage the New in Trackers.
• Providing the content team with priority products to ensure the most relevant and revenue driving parts of the range are set live across the various outdoor sites.
• Working with B&M to send over & record new season samples to the Photo Studio to ensure assets are created ahead of stock landing in order to reduce time to site.
• Merchandising the sites using Aurora Commerce ranking blends and manual modification for key product categories & brands to ensure the most relevant seasonal product is being showcased.
• Site walks throughout the week to raise any potential issues – broken links, incorrect product descriptions, product placement, imagery and general housekeeping including Left Hand Navigation.
• Assist their relevant category Junior Merchandiser in day-to-day tasks as required.
• Setting up current on-site promotions in the Aurora platform and using Monetate software to apply relevant overlays / badging for them.
• Reviewing & maintaining product attribution to include multi-buys, colors, new season & out of stock rules.
• Ensuring product reviews are regularly checked and set live to sites
• Dealing with daily product queries from the customer experience team, escalating and managing any issues that can’t be resolved there and then.
• Supporting line managers with basic system / task training for new Assistant Merchandisers.
• Review top on site searches and action merchandising rules to improve results and conversion.
• Review and update size guides regularly.

Teamwork: 

• Comfortable working within an online merchandising team whilst also working directly with the wider Buying & Merchandising teams.
• Reporting directly into an online Merchandiser.
• Regular communication with online marketing in terms of product selections and promotional information.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge required:

• Ecommerce, merchandising and excel experience.
• Good analytical skills and a keen eye for detail.
• Strong communication and work well in a team.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.

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