Assistant Merchandiser Advanced - Jaeger

What you’ll do

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Partner with the Merchandiser and Buying teams to support Jaeger’s range strategy, forecasts and product plans across UK stores, M&S.com and International ensuring plans are commercially robust and customer led.
• Own launch quantities and in-season stock actions, improving availability and size balance while managing commitment and markdown risk.
• Manage accurate ranges, listings and critical path milestones, supporting outfit-building, option discipline and a commercially balanced offer.
• Translate trading lessons into future plans, including availability, sizing, grading, option count and online visibility.
• Manage the Merchandise Admin Assistant’s day-to-day priorities, supporting their development and ensuring key admin and data tasks are delivered accurately and on time.
• Build strong relationships across Buying, Design, Retail, Online and International, working closely with Sourcing Offices and suppliers to land plans at pace.
  

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• An experienced Assistant Merchandiser with strong planning, forecasting and stock management skills, ideally in Fashion or Womenswear.
• Commercially sharp and analytical, with the confidence to turn data into clear recommendations that grow sales, improve margin and protect availability.
• Genuinely product-led, with an eye for quality and detail, and an entrepreneurial mindset that spots opportunities and makes things happen.
• A proactive communicator who can influence cross-functional partners and bring pace, accuracy and clarity to a growing team.
• Organised, accurate and digitally confident, with strong working knowledge of core systems and tools including Range Planner, SSI, SAP, JDA and Co-Pilot
  

What’s in it for you?

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation

• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more

• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours

• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future

• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one

• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal

• Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave

• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services

• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

Everyone’s welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.