Senior Merchandiser

Radley have been proud architects of luxurious British handbags and accessories for over 25 years. Known for our leather expertise and enduring quality, we expertly blend iconic design and exquisite craftsmanship with exceptional value.

Our London HQ is home to our in-house Design team, who are inspired by the natural world, luxurious fine leathers and the remarkable women who wear our bags. Each design is then responsibly made by our family-run manufacturing partners, in the expert hands of three generations of artisan craftspeople.

We're looking for a Senior Merchandiser to join our Merchandising team, who will be accountable for leading the end to end merchandising process, managing stock for Retail and Wholesale channels, and maximising revenue and profit.

This role is critical in driving product strategy, managing the product lifecycle, and collaborating cross functionally to ensure the commercial success of our collections across all channels. This position leads by example, acting as an ambassador for Radley, fostering a culture of passion and determination, and driving excellence across the Merchandising organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Define OTB parameters alongside Head of Merchandising, including sales, margin, inventory, stock turn and YE inventory targets for all channels
• Development and ownership of global inventory management activities, including ownership of WSSI and long range merchandising financial plans, ensuring optimal inventory and productivity
• Quantify seasonal buy volumes alongside Buying team to maximise sales and sell through
• Ownership of line cards on core options, placing reorders to ensure never out of stock
• Responsible for ensuring allocating and re-balancing inventory to improve global sell through across all channels
• Accountable for promotions, delist and markdown planning and forecasting, in line with OTB targets, together with regulating discounts by product
• Responsible for option plans, measuring performance against plan for each season
• Accountable for the 4YP inventory strategy across the full product life cycle
• Communicate sales, inventory and margin forecasts to cross-functional partners and SLT, highlighting risks and opportunities and recommending in season/ pre season actions
• Collaborate with Partnerships team and Buying to prepare seasonal assortments
• Working closely with Partners on responsible inventory management in line with company and Partner targets
• Analyse order book performance vs plan, to ensure alignment with financial KPIss
• Coaching and developing a team of a Junior/ Assistant Merchandiser, and Allocator
• Provide clear and effective support to both internal and external customers, addressing their needs and responding promptly.

Skills & Experience

• Strong leadership skills: inspiring, energising and instilling a culture of innovation, collaboration and accountability
• Demonstrated excellence across all aspects of Merchandising
• Creative, innovative and customer-oriented when faced with business challenges
• Strong decision-making capability
• Dynamic and collaborative style, able to build positive working relationships with cross-functional teams and translate strategic direction to all levels of the organisation
• Exceptional attention to detail and analytical skills

Benefits & Perks

Reward & recognition: Generous Radley discount, company bonus, sample sales, service awards and special occasion gifts

Wellbeing & health: Healthcare cash plan (up to c.£900), Virtual GP, EAP, Thrive wellbeing app and life assurance

Time & balance: Enhanced annual leave with holiday buy, plus Summer Fridays

Growth & lifestyle: Learning & development, EV and Cycle to Work schemes, season ticket loan

At Radley, we strive to create, promote and live an inclusive culture. We’re committed to social equity and actively work to make impactful changes across our business to become diverse and celebrate one another’s differences. We encourage a supportive and open environment for anyone that steps through our doors at our Service Centres, Distribution Centre and Stores.

We know that diversity in a business only makes it stronger, so our People team are clear on how to conduct an inclusive recruitment campaign. Our job posts always go through a gender-bias decoder before going live, we will always consider alternative inclusive job boards, and we will remain open to considering flexible working options. We won’t ask for specific qualifications unless it’s absolutely critical to the success of the role and we already actively participate in external schemes to bring in future talent from diverse backgrounds. We are #Proudtobe Radley.

We’re proud to offer a competitive and ahead-of-the-curve remuneration and benefits package, some of which we share here. If you are shortlisted as having the skills required for this role then we’ll openly share our salary banding with you ahead of moving forward to the next stage. For some time, we have actively stopped asking candidates their salary expectations at interview where it isn’t necessary to do so, we want to pay an individual for the job based on their experience and ability and not limit some groups who may undervaluing themselves.