Retail Trading Manager

Role Overview

• Feeds into Retail Demand Planning process, making sure retail feedback on product opportunities and department ranging needs are being met
• Regularly looking for ways to improve the processes and systems we use for allocations, suggesting improvements where necessary
• Planning weekly volumes from the DC into stores, feeding into the supply chain meetings
• Manages the flow of stock at both peak season and new season launch, taking manual control of the picking if necessary
• Profiles all branches in the region every 6 months, ensuring the range we send is appropriate for the market
• Responsible for management of the allocators, ensuring option depths are being set correctly.
• Manages the allocation strategy for the region, including when we launch new season stock and when we switch off replenishment
• Plans and executes the opening of new stores, ensuring to follow up and review performance post opening
• Seizes market opportunities, communicates to retail and demand planning where there are ways for a region or category to make more money
• Front foot communication to retail at all times, ensuring the market are clear what the business priorities are and what we are doing to trade the region
• Ensures retail requests are dealt with and responded to in a timely manner
• Trades the retail stock pot
• the trading manager is responsible for stock once it hits our DC, selling through to optimise profit within agreed life cycles.
• Identifies reactive promotion needs, either for a region or a department to deal with pockets of stock.
• Ensures stock levels for upcoming promotions are correct and managed once the promotion ends
• Works with the Online merchandising team to trade stock between channels
• Pushes retail on products that aren't moving and suggests branch to branch transfers if necessary
• Works with Demand Planning team if DC stocks are insufficient for store needs
• The key point of contact in head office for Retail for product/stock related issues
• Ensures optimal availability for territory launches and events

Requirements

• Systems/planning tools
• expert level
• Knowledge of all B&M systems and processes
• Knowledge of retail operations/supply chain process
• Commerciality, energy and passion
• Leadership skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Hybrid working, 3 days in London based office & 2 working from home
• Holiday allowance
• 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
• Pension scheme