We currently have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Creative Manager to join our Head Office team 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

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

KEY SKILLS AND 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

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

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Marketing Analyst to join our Head Office team in Manchester

Being good with numbers isn't enough for this role. Can you use the data to drive online growth? Have you an understanding of the levers that do this? This is a brand new role to the business where you will have the opportunity to make it your own from day one.

You’ll will ideally have experience doing deep-dive analysis on PPC campaigns as well as a holistic view of total ad stacks and channel performance.

Responsibilities and key skills:

• Provide insight into performance and trends of individual marketing channels
• Making recommendations for campaign improvements and opportunities
• Review all marketing activity data on a regular basis, KPI reporting
• Customer journey and behaviour analysis
• Develop reports and dashboards for individual teams
• Understanding the result of the promotional activity
• Responsible for providing high quality, accurate data reporting to present to directors and company.
• Identify critical deficiencies, by analysing processes, technology and people and recommend solutions based on findings.
• Analytical, technical and highly proficient with standard analytic tools (google suite- specifically Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Google Console) in addition to excel.
• A real passion for eCommerce and how analytics can influence overall performance.
• First point of contact for marketing analysis across the digital and ecommerce teams
• Ability to condense complex data into understandable points for the wider team.
• Exposure to PPC preferred but not essential.
• Strong Google Analytics, Data Analysis and Excel skills
• Ability to tell a simple story from complex data
• Experience of providing insight and making recommendations
• Knowledge of Python is desirable, but not essential

    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

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Buyer to join our Head Office team in Manchester.

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

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for an eCommerce Executive to join our Head Office team in Manchester.

We’re looking for an eCommerce Trading Assistant to implement the day to day trading activity on the I SAW IT FIRST website.

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.

What your day to day will be like:

• 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 and 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

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

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Junior Motion Designer to join our Head Office team in Manchester.

We are looking for a talented, creative individual, with a strong flair for design and editing. You will have motion graphics experience in a similar or related environment, delivering highly engaging and creative animations. You will have the ability to work well within a team, or handle a project independently, working efficiently and to deadline.

We’re looking for someone with a true aptitude for design as well as motion and:

• A level-headed demeanour under pressure
• Working closely along side the senior designer and social team throughout the daily tasks
• Comfortable with Adobe creative suite, Photoshop, illustrator and good knowledge of After Effects - Essential
• Designing strong and consistent graphic/animate banners for all social media platforms
• Conveying a professional brand image via successful online presence and branding techniques
• Working closely with the Marketing and E-commerce team with plans to execute future promotions, with hope to gain more customer interaction and to drive sales

*If you have examples of your work such as an online portfolio please be sure to put the link on your application*

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

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

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.