Seasalt
Channel Merchandiser
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Seasalt
Seasalt began in 1981 with a small shop in Penzance, selling workwear to local mariners and practical overalls to artists. Today, we’ve grown into a thriving omnichannel retailer with over 80 UK and Ireland stores, 400+ wholesale stockists, and a growing international and online footprint.
As a B Corp and winner of both Drapers “Best Place to Work” and CIPD’s “Best Recognition Programme”, we care deeply about our people, our communities and our long-term impact. Our Head Office teams provide the foundations that empower our people to drive sustainable growth across the UK and international markets.
Role Overview
As a Channel Merchandiser, you'll support in-season trading and stock management activities, ensuring the right products are available in the right place at the right time. You'll use your analytical skills to forecast sales, stock levels, markdowns and margins, helping to maximise profitability while supporting business stock management. Working closely with merchandising, logistics, wholesale and wider commercial teams, you'll provide valuable insights, identify opportunities and risks, and help shape trading decisions through reporting and analysis.
As a subject matter expert for your channels, you'll build strong relationships across the business, ensuring forecasts are accurate, stock flows efficiently and performance is continually optimised. You'll also have the opportunity to support and develop others within the merchandising team, sharing best practice and helping to create a collaborative, high-performing environment.
This is a full-time, temporary role to cover family leave, expected to last approximately 12 months. This role is based remotely within the UK, with occasional travel to our Cornwall head offices.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing stock allocation and distribution to maximise sales and product performance across assigned channels.
- Monitoring channel stock levels and recommending changes to allocation plans to optimise sales, margin and availability.
- Taking ownership of WSSI sales, markdown, POS and margin forecasting for specific channels to help inform stock management and trading decisions.
- Acting as the key merchandising contact for distribution centre and logistics teams, monitoring the stock flowing through the DC and other 3rd party DCs.
- Reviewing product performance and identifying trading risks and opportunities through regular analysis.
- Producing reporting and insight to support commercial trading decisions and stock management strategies.
- Managing replenishment activities to deliver the most profitable sales opportunities.
- Supporting wholesale planning and forecasting, ensuring plans reflect the latest business performance and outlook.
- Building strong relationships across merchandising, wholesale, logistics and commercial teams to drive collaborative decision-making.
- Supporting the development of team members through positive and energised leadership, recognition and identifying training needs.
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Skills and Experience
- Experience working in a merchandising role, with responsibility for trading and managing a department or product area.
- Previous experience leading, motivating or developing individuals or teams.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to make customer-focused decisions.
- Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to balance quantitative and qualitative data in drawing conclusions.
- A proactive problem-solving approach and can-do attitude – able to overcome issues, propose solutions and make commercial decisions.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, particularly with senior stakeholders.
- Collaborative approach with experience of working cross-functionally.
- Ability to perform under pressure, manage competing priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong planning and strategy development skills.
- An analytical degree or professional qualification would be advantageous.
- Experience working within a retail environment would be advantageous.
Why Seasalt?
The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We don't just want to attract the best and brightest people to come and work with us, we want you to stay and grow with us.
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As well as doing everything we can to support your development professionally, we believe encouraging personal growth is just as important. So you can fulfil your passion and purpose, not just at work but in life, we offer a range of benefits that are designed to enhance your career and wellbeing:
- Salary: up to £42,000 depending on experience (Band 3)
- 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
- Attractive 50% employee discount
- Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package
- Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP
- Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support
- Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions
- Life assurance programme
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Flexible working opportunities with our hybrid working approach
- Learning and Development opportunities
- Do Good Things with our two days per year paid volunteering opportunities
- Employee networks to develop and provide support to our people, including the Inclusion & Belonging Network
- 100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub
At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people – they're what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer, we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles.
We aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives - diversity of thought helps us to grow – so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. We're happy to help with any adjustments to our recruitment process and beyond. Just drop us an email at careers@seasaltcornwall.co.uk
Closing date for applications is 17th July, however our roles can close earlier so we would recommend applying as soon as you are able.
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