Role & Responsibilities:

• You will be fitting samples & advising comments to suppliers, update the supplier trackers with comments & photos
• Annotating photos to help give clear & concise instructions
• Some checking of production samples, ensuring the measurements are as approved & guaranteeing the quality and approval of garments and all technical aspects associated with multi-product womenswear.
• Discuss comments & issues with suppliers
• Liaise directly with the QC manager, relay comments/approvals process and resolve technical/quality issues.
• Manage communication between internal teams and suppliers
• Communicating daily with the warehouse.
• Liaising with colleagues with regards to ideas and changes that can be made to improve the garment.

Skills & Experience:

• With min 1 year’s experience within the fashion industry.
• Experience with a fast fashion brand is preferred.
• A knowledge of garment construction and garment fitting is preferred but not essential as training will be provided.
• Highly competent IT skills, including excel, google photos & sheets would be an advantage.
• Confident communication skills, the ability to work to critical path deadlines. Ability to manage own workload and a team player

Role & Responsibilities:

• Monthly reports to the directors
• Weekly checks of the bestselling style returns percentages & initiating relevant qc investigations.
• Daily checks of returns reason codes & actioning QC checks where appropriate.
• Managing fit session timetable, ensuring the fit comments are clear, concise & ensure the relationship between QC team & suppliers is upheld.
• Liaising with junior members of the team with regards ideas and changes that can be made to improve the garment.
• Training & educating to increase the knowledge & understanding of the team.
• Arranging production, pre-production QC checks and grading garments
• Ensure that the garments are being produced to the required quality standard.
• Promoting quality and performance improvement
• Working on projects to reduce the overall returns %
• Regular visits to the warehouse, checking in with the QC & Good In teams to discuss any issues.
• Meetings with suppliers to discuss any issues & ensure relationships are maintained.
• Discuss comments & issues with suppliers
• Liaise directly with the buyers, merchandisers & directors to relay any technical &/or quality issues and discuss resolutions.
• Manage communication between internal teams and suppliers
• Communicating daily with the warehouse.

Skills & Experience:

• With min 5 year’s experience within the fashion industry.
• Experience with a fast fashion brand is preferred.
• Must have worked in a similar role.
• A knowledge of garment construction and garment fitting is essential
• A knowledge of grade rules across womenswear including jersey & woven is essential.
• Highly competent IT skills, including excel, google photos & sheets would be an advantage.
• Confident communication skills, the ability to work to critical path deadlines. Ability to manage own workload and a team player.

Role & Responsibilities:

This role requires strong trend awareness as well as the ability to actively provide and use analysis to develop category merchandising on I SAW IT FIRST:

• Presenting the product pool in the best possible way to maximise site conversion and revenue.
• Making the customer journey to locate the desired product simplistic.
• Ensuring that the customer can use filtering component to narrow down their search.

What you'll do as a Visual Merchandiser:

• Responsible for product trading all of our onsite categories by ensuring the 1st pages are merchandised to meet our VM strategy.
• Responsible for parts of the sites and pages, which are automatically merchandised.
• Ensuring product is live on site with all key components as fast as possible.
• Analysing each product within a category daily ensuring that you have captured all key metrics within the manual merchandised zones.
• Develop a close working relationships with, studio, marketing and buying to ensure that all business priorities are met, ensure that communication between the teams is regular and productive.

Skills & Experience:

• Responsibility for trading all of our onsite categories by ensuring the first few pages are merchandised to meet business requirements, ensuring that commercial KPI’s are met and conversion is maximised.
• Responsibility for parts of the sites and pages which are automatically merchandised.
• Implement processes within the team to increase efficiency and accuracy
• Become the ‘Gatekeeper’ of the I SAW IT FIRST taxonomy to ensure all products are allocated the correct attributes to enable them to find products on our website.
• Knowledge of new technologies to enhance the shopping experience of our customers
• Develop close working relationships with, studio, marketing and buying teams to ensure that all business priorities are met.
• Work with the Ecommerce team to ensure all products are published in a timely fashion, managing daily priorities with studio and buying.
• Use appropriate tools to ensure that customers using the search tool find the most appropriate products for their search term.

Due to the nature of this role it is essential you are the following measurements:

• Bust: 86cm,
• Waist: 66cm
• Hips: 94cm  
• Height: 5ft 4. (minimum) (162cm)

Role & Responsibilities:

Responsible for heading up the 'creative team' which includes:

• Complete fittings as directed by the technical manager. This will also involve supporting other areas of the business, including design and buying as necessary.
• Provide constructive feedback regarding the fit of garments during the fittings.
• Provide basic administrative support to the technical team when not involved in fitting of garments.
• Complete any other adhoc tasks as required by the technical manager or Heads of Buying/Merchandising.

Role & Responsibilities:

To support the Head of Merchandising to ensure that the buying function is effectively controlled within the agreed business strategy, and that all necessary frameworks, controls and skill sets are in situ to enable the necessary degree of both long term planning and in season trading to maximise business performance.

• Using data to optimise the sales volume and profitability of all designated product areas.
• Planning of budgets by category, option count, and depth of buy based on the overall business and financial goals of the company.
• Controls stock levels based on weekly sales and stock intakes (WSSI)
• Reviews sales forecasts based on performance, and actions re forecasts.
• Analyses and monitors best and worst sellers and makes informed recommendations for action
• Recommends promotions and re buys as necessary
• Monitors and maintains buying margin and gross profit margins as requested.
• Ensures that best sellers reach their full potential
• Supplies the Head of Merchandising and buying team with necessary data to enable informed decisions and planning.
• Is aware of current and emerging best practice within merchandising/buying and makes recommendations to the business through the Merchandising Director as appropriate.
• Works closely with the Merchandising Director at a strategic level within buying and merchandising and translates strategy to implementation.

Role & Responsibilities:

Responsible for heading up the 'creative team' which includes:

• the full Studio team
• creative execs for content shoots and campaign shoots
• plus the graphic team

• Must have a full understanding of the target market and how our girl wants to see product, wants to see a brand express itself today while remaining fun, a step ahead of the competition and appealing to a wide audience
• Act as the brand guardian, building a credible brand expression for ISAWITFIRST across all customer touch points, ensuring a consistent and cohesive brand experience
• Oversea the creation of brand assets for use across all channels and activations including homepage, social media, newsletters, app, advertising and additional content.
• Ensure all assets are to an exceptionally high standard with a keen eye for detail
• Deliver engaging campaign concepts for advertising and brand activations with genuine cut through and commercial viability
• Drive and define the customer moments calendar and create customer centric content across all channels that’s on-brand, innovative and speaks to the audience in the correct TOV, across product and topics of authority
• Extensive cultural research to ensure ISAWITFIRST comms include the most relevant influencers, music, sub culture and lifestyle topics

Skills & Experience:

• Highly creative with experience working within women’s fast fashion - essential
• Experience working within a studio and managing content and campaign shoots - essential
• Experience managing a team of graphic and digital designers
• An innovative thinker with entrepreneurial spirit
• Passion for brand building with strong commercial awareness
• Highly self-motivated and enthusiastic with a hands on positive attitude
• A fast and efficient worker, able to meet tight deadlines and work on multiple projects at one time

Role & Responsibilities:

Responsible for heading up the 'creative team' which includes:

• Ensure relevant trends are translated into product range at speed to reflect the brand and customer.
• Work closely and maintain strong relationships with Merchandising and Design teams to develop a trend led product range overseen by the Buying Manager.
• Able to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Maintain effective communication with category Buyers across the department.
• Attend and communication key information in trading meetings to maintain a good overall trading of the categories.
• Build and maintain good relationships with supply base.
• Generate ideas to impact the business in reference to promotions and markdowns.
• Provide a high degree of input into product and competitor activity.
• Ensure the development process is smooth to maintain key deadlines.
• Maintain all aspects of the critical path with the team to ensure deadlines for key dates and events are achieved.
• Willing to travel as and when required by the business.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience in buying womenswear clothing, multi product and non clothing preferably in a fast fashion environment.
• Strong understanding of the WSSI by close cooperation with the buyer and merchandising team.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to work well under pressure.
• Proven management skills with the ability to manage junior members of the team and support in development.
• Advanced Excel skills
• Excellent communicator, will be required to communicate internationally and across regions on a daily basis

Role & Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for executing the promotional plan across the website ensuring all promotional activity goes live correctly and according to plan. This role will monitor the ongoing performance of online promotions making any recommendations for change and feeding this back to team members and managers as appropriate.

A key part of trading the websites is understanding the website performance. You will use web analytics tools and work with the Insight Team to monitor performance of all the key elements of the website in order to understand the success of the promotional programme and make recommendations for changes on a daily basis.

• Implement the execution of the website promotional plan across all websites.
• Monitor the web analytics to measure performance of website activity and make recommendations to change.
• Work with the user experience team to identify areas of improvement across the websites.
• Work closely with IT and Marketing to delivery effective content changes and promotions across the websites.
• Execute and implement the trading activities across the site.
• Conduct ad-hoc research on competitors and the trading conditions and send this information to eCommerce Managers and team members as appropriate.

Skills & Experience:

• Excellent attention to detail
• Proven experience working in an eCommerce role
• A strong work ethic and desire to succeed
• Good communication skills (verbal & written English)
• Solid configuring, problem solving and organisational skills
• Possess excellent knowledge of a range of IT systems
• Have experience using Shopify or equivalent eCommerce platforms
• Be willing to work hard and further develop yourself to grow your role within the business

Role & Responsibilities:

• Analysing historical sales for forward planning proposals and forecasting line and flow projections by line and category level
• Maintaining commitment schedules for forecasting and repeat ordering information and ensuring balances and outstanding quantities are correct
• Implementing markdown proposals for planned and ad-hoc events
• Monitoring of stock levels at full price and reduced price
• Liaising with suppliers and warehouse to ensure an effective throughput of stock
• Controlling and overseeing weekly intake in line with departmental requirements
• Producing weekly intake information by style
• Confirming delivery details with suppliers in line with warehouse restrictions.
• Preparing weekly department trading results including sales, stock commitment, profit and budget information.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Collating bookings for all categories stock
• Print daily collections and organise these with our driver
• Liaise with Buyers and Merchandising teams from all categories in regards to booking dates and approvals
• Liaise with the Warehouse in regards to deliveries and missed deliveries and ensure all categories are informed
• Liaise with suppliers in regards to bookings via email and phone calls
• Allocate intake targets per category and per day, and ensure this is communicated with the Warehouse and Merchandising team
• Send the daily intake to the Warehouse and Merchandising teams

Skills & Experience:

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively across departments, managing several supplier accounts
• Ability to utilise Microsoft Outlook and complete work from several inboxes
• Experience in Microsoft Excel
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail when managing booking dates and ensuring that intake and category targets are adhered to
• Time management is essential and the ability to prioritise work load
• Confident, pro-active and able to work under pressure and to strict deadlines

Role & Responsibilities:

• To assist and support the merchandising team for the designated category, including providing administrative support as required.
• Work closely with both the merchandisers and the buyers for the designated category to develop a full understanding of the range supported.
• Responsible for creating and amending all purchase orders.
• Action re-pricing and markdown changes.
• Changes to supplier revised delivery dates.
• Liaise with the warehouse regarding any stock queries and necessary purchase order amendments.
• Sending Barcodes out to suppliers.
• Supporting the Merchandiser with excel reporting and preparation, analysis, Data entry and general administrative duties.