I SAW IT FIRST are looking for a PR Executive to join our head office in Manchester.

An I Saw It First PR Executive will typically:

• Write press releases, news stories, case studies and product pieces
• Pitch press releases and feature ideas by phone or email to national, regional and trade journalists, across print, broadcast and online, to interest them in and I Saw It First brand stories
• Respond to phone calls and emails from journalists and stylists
• Arrange one on ones with national press for the PR team
• Monitor media coverage and report results to the wider team
• Help to organise and attend I Saw It First press or VIP events
• Brainstorm fresh ideas for PR campaigns

Key skills

• English language fluency: You need to have excellent written and spoken English.
• Copywriting skills: You need to be hot on spelling, grammar and proof-reading, as well as have a creative flair for producing engaging copy.
• Presentation skills: From communicating ideas to the team to presenting brand stories to journalists, you need to organise information in a way that will capture their attention.
• Strong interpersonal skills: Whether it’s over the phone, by email or in person, you need to be approachable, friendly and empathetic, and be able to relate to people on different levels within the I Saw It First team, and with the media.
• Time-keeping: You will often be working to tight media deadlines as well as meeting the demands and pressures of your team and clients, so you need to be able to work quickly and efficiently, without compromising on quality.

Qualifications

A relevant undergraduate degree such as Fashion Communication, PR, journalism or English Literature is expected but not essential.

Previous Experience

6-12 months prior experience working in a PR agency, press office or fast-fashion environment is preferable, as coming in with a set of existing press contacts will set you apart from other candidates.

Perks:

•   Free lunch every day
•   Stocked drinks fridge
•   Company social events
•   Staff discount on I SAW IT FIRST website
•   20% discount on food and drink at a prestigious Manchester restaurant

I SAW IT FIRST are looking for a Creatice Executive to join our head office in Manchester.

The role will see the person responsible for executing the creative brand vision for ISAWITFIRST through all channels and platforms to ensure a strong, credible and relevant brand image for its market positioning and target audience.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as the brand guardian, building a credible brand expression for ISAWITFIRST across all customer touch points, ensuring a consistent and cohesive brand experience
• Manage 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
• Create shoot moodboards for campaign and concept shoots, brief the production team from concept to end delivery.
• Deliver engaging campaign concepts for advertising and brand activations with genuine cut through and commercial viability
• Lead the tone of voice guidelines and act as a brand guardian for all visual and creative communications across all channels to ensure consistency
• 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
• Work with the graphics team to brief in homepage updates and email newsletter content

KEY ATTRIBUTES

• Highly creative with a strong interest in women’s fast fashion
• 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

Perks:

•   Free lunch every day
•   Stocked drinks fridge
•   Company social events
•   Staff discount on I SAW IT FIRST website
•   20% discount on food and drink at a prestigious Manchester restaurant

I SAW IT FIRST are looking for an Assistant Merchandiser to join our head office in Manchester.

As the Assistant Merchandiser you will provide analysis of sales information and over seeing daily and weekly intake control.

Key skills & 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.

Perks:

•   Free lunch every day
•   Stocked drinks fridge
•   Company social events
•   Staff discount on I SAW IT FIRST website
•   20% discount on food and drink at a prestigious Manchester restaurant

I SAW IT FIRST are looking for a Booking Clerk to join our head office in Manchester.

As the Booking Clerk you will have the overall responsibility for supplier bookings for all categories to ensure that stock is received on time and in line with company targets.

Key functional areas of responsibility

• 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 required

• 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

Perks:

•   Free lunch every day
•   Stocked drinks fridge
•   Company social events
•   Staff discount on I SAW IT FIRST website
•   20% discount on food and drink at a prestigious Manchester restaurant

Perks:

•   Free lunch every day
•   Stocked drinks fridge
•   Company social events
•   Staff discount on I SAW IT FIRST website
•   20% discount on food and drink at a prestigious Manchester restaurant

I SAW IT FIRST are looking for a Merchandising Admin Assistant to join us at our head office in Manchester.

As the Merchandising Admin Assistant you will be responsible for making sure the product sells the best, most profitably. The merchandising team at I SAW IT FIRST work to a test and repeat model. You will be working closely with other departments such as the buying team on a daily basis.

Job Summary:

•   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.

Tasks, duties & responsibilities:

•   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.

Perks:

•   Free lunch every day
•   Stocked drinks fridge
•   Company social events
•   Staff discount on I SAW IT FIRST website
•   20% discount on food and drink at a prestigious Manchester restaurant

I SAW IT FIRST are looking for a Junior Buyer to join us at our head office in Manchester.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a creative, enthusiastic Junior Buyer to join our rapidly growing team. As the Junior Buyer you must be flexible and used to working as part of a team in a fast paced buying office. We need a confident communicator with good negotiation skills who can build strong supplier relationships.
 

Tasks, Duties & Responsibilities:

• Completes all processes with reference to daily/weekly sales, as well as longer term plans.
• Monitors stock covers on single lines.
• Reports and effectively communicates all key information in trading meeting to buyer and director level.
• Generates ideas and suggestion to impact the business with reference to promotions and mark downs.
• Monitors and maintains stocks as per KPI’s set and manages open to buy accordingly.
• Develops basic understanding of WSSI by close cooperation with buyer and merchandising team.
• Responds to competitor analysis.
• Supports buyers with the development of more junior team members.
• Supports senior buyers to develop new strategies for the business and department.
• Undertakes preparation for trips overseas and works closely with the design team throughout the process to maintain effective communication and cooperation between the teams.
• Completes buying trips as needed
• Liaises with marketing and eCommerce teams to develop and maintain professional working relationships and ensure sales are maximised through the site and in line with overall strategy.

I SAW IT FIRST are looking for a Buying Administrator to join our head office in Manchester.

As the Assistant Buyer you will provide the support needed to ensure that we’re constantly offering the most exciting products to our customers. You’ll have a unique opportunity to learn the full lifecycle of buying at one of the UK’s fasted growing online fast fashion brands.

Tasks, duties & responsibilities
•   Delivering amazing administrative support to the team to make sure everything runs smoothly
•   Maintaining the critical path and making sure suppliers ensure meet each key date so the product runs on time
•   Managing and keeping track of hundreds of samples. This includes chasing them in for fits, pulling for meetings and finally sending over to production to be shot
•   Supporting the team by preparing paperwork and product needed for meetings

Key Skills
•   Lives and breathes fashion and is passionate about the product
•   Is super organised, able to use initiative and to work in a high pressured environment
•   Has great attention to detail to ensure all the important details such as selling price, shipment dates and product attributes are correct
•   Has excellent communication skills, written & verbal

Perks:

•   Free lunch every day
•   Stocked drinks fridge
•   Company social events
•   Staff discount on I SAW IT FIRST website
•   20% discount on food and drink at a prestigious Manchester restaurant

I SAW IT FIRST are looking for an Assistant Buyer to join our head office in Manchester.

As the Assistant Buyer you will assist and support the buying team by taking responsibility of and actioning all admin tasks, contributing to buying decisions, actioning daily rebuys, and presenting weekly comp shop reports back to the business.

Tasks, duties & responsibilities 

•   All admin tasks – Filing, Spreadsheet management, Order Raising, General office duties
•   Analyses best and worst performers, proposing rebuy and markdown actions weekly/daily.
•   Presents previous weeks best/worst sellers and figures in weekly trading meetings to Manager, highlighting new performers with current weeks action plan.
•   Is proactive in developing and maintaining effective supplier relationships in order to achieve business goals.
•   Tracks intake by managing the Critical Path.
•   Liaises with eCommerce regularly on new products/trends that have been bought.
•   Manages samples that come into the business right through to the studio team within a set timeframe
•   Regularly reviews fashion blog sites, social media and trend predication pages to keep up to date on the latest street trends.

Key Skills required:

•   Attends training, meetings and other events as requested by direct manager or senior management.
•   Assists colleagues by completing tasks outside own job role when requested.
•   Maintains own working area in a professional and organised manner.
•   Always strives to improve the department’s operation and increase knowledge of own and related job functions.

Perks:

•   Free lunch every day

•   Stocked drinks fridge
•   Company social events
•   Staff discount on I SAW IT FIRST website
•   20% discount on food and drink at a prestigious Manchester restaurant

I SAW IT FIRST are looking for a Junior Merchandiser to join us at our head office in Manchester.

As the Junior Merchandiser you will be responsible for making sure the product sells the best, most profitably. The merchandising team at I SAW IT FIRST work to a test and repeat model. You will be working closely with other departments such as the buying team on a daily basis.

The Junior Merchandiser will be responsible for the following: 

•   Monitoring range plans and trading plans to ensure optimum stock levels are achieved and OTB is maximised at all times.

•   Working closely with the buying team to build a commercial range which not only meets business targets and budgets, but also customer's expectations.

•   Developing detailed range plans with appropriate product phasing to ensure availability is maximised and to minimise terminal stock.

•   Maximising in-season trading opportunities to ensure optimum trading and profitability. Reacting to trading activity suggesting markdowns and promotions where appropriate.

•   Performing detailed analysis and reporting at yearly, seasonal, weekly level by department, category, line and attribute. Identifying sales patterns and potential trading opportunities.

Key skills required:

•   Knowledge and experience planning and trading your own department, including forecasting and OTB management responsibilities.

•   Advanced Excel skills and high level proficiency with other Microsoft Office programs.

•   Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally.

•   Strong commercial awareness and the ability to react appropriately to in-season trading.

Perks:

•   Free lunch every day
•   Stocked drinks fridge
•   Company social events
•   Staff discount on I SAW IT FIRST website
•   20% discount on food and drink at a prestigious Manchester restaurant

PR Executive Role

• Support the Marketing Director and the rest of the marketing team

• Identify PR & influencer opportunities for brand & product promotion.

• Contact and build strong relationships with press, bloggers/influencers, celebrities, monthly glossies, weekly magazines and creative agencies. Manage regular communication, calls and networking.

• Idea generation for creative PR & influencer campaigns

• Monitoring the media & social for opportunities for coverage & engagement

• Work closely with buying & merchandising team to stay aligned on upcoming trends & hero products.

• Report and analyse press, social & event activity back to the business

PR Exec Skills

• At least 12 months hands on experience in similar roles

• Strong organisational skills with good attention to detail to analyse results from event and blogger activity

• An awareness of high street, blogger and key social trends to continuously seek out new creative opportunities

• Strong copywriting skills for press releases

• A degree in fashion and/or PR would be advantageous

• Strong Photoshop skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

This role will see you responsible for supporting the merchandising function to ensure that the relevant stakeholders have accurate data which can directly, pro actively and consistently inform decisions relating to maximising profitability and contributing to overall business strategy and growth.

 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.

Tasks, Duties & Responsibilities:

• 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.

We are looking for a Buyer who will be responsible for the delivery of sales and profit targets in order to execute our product strategy. You will be collaborative and organised with your finger on the pulse of fashion and you will always be looking to push the department forward.

Skills & Experience

• You will have a strong product, market and brand awareness
• Strong sourcing and supplier negotiation skills
• Create a productive strategy and range plan to implement across stores and online.
• Effectively working within a team and delegating resources and workload while ensuring team members are motivated and focused.
• You must be flexible and willing to travel the UK and overseas when required
• Product, brand and market awareness
• You will have a good eye for product demonstrating excellent commercial awareness
• You will have the ability to influence and build new relationships

Benefits

• Competitive basic salary
• Training and development
• Staff discount
• Regular social events
• Free lunch everyday