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Some of our hosts include River Island, M&S, Matalan, Next, Tesco and many more!\nWe are pleased to have a fantastic opportunity available for a Merchandiser to join our successful Merchandising team at DCK in our Billericay office.\n\nYou will;\nWork alongside Buying, Design and Host to define and develop the vision and strategy of the brand, new initiatives must be put forward and planned in line with the critical path.\n\nManage Critical path timelines and key milestone deadlines to ensure they are achieved. Manage workload in line with the priorities of your brand and ensure there is regular and effective communication with the Merchandise Manager.\n\nDrive Building Blocks and Strategy for the department forward with a profitability focus, aligning to DCK and Host Strategy where appropriate.\n\nContinuously review the P&L for the department and action discussions to highlight the full potential of your brand proposing the steps required to achieve this, using analytics to propose a solution.\n\nUse the systems available to establish clear and profitable Assortment Plans, along with BEVs and phasing, balancing newness, consolidated lines and sell-through, taking into account sales and profit density.\n\nSign off strategy and budgets with the Senior team.\n\nEnsure accurate and timely pre-season planning based on the strategy and agreed targets. Opportunities are maximised and risk is mitigated, with a concise summary and action plan relayed to the business.\n\nQuantify Building Blocks through data and articulate them to the business with confidence.\n\nComplete Seasonal Planning including Assortment Planning/Option Planning and Range Planning thoroughly to a high standard showing a clear understanding of how options, newness and grading can be optimised to grow profitability.\n\nMaximise Space/Options at all times, highlighting risks and opportunities with clear action points to support.\n\nManage the Seasonal OTB, devising and agreeing the option count and phasing in line with the Assortment Plan and communicate to Buying Team within deadline- initiatives are brought to the business and delivered.\n\nSet Stock requirements to achieve sales and profit plans, by Total and Branch stocks, FP and MD, top down and bottom up within agreed timeframes.\n\nStock levels are aligned to DCK & Host strategy and opportunities and risks are presented alongside measurable actions. Stock is maintained within the plan parameters and in line with Terminal Stock Targets, clear communication is given to the Merchandise Manager.\n\nUndertake accurate in-season forecasting to reflect current trading conditions, highlight risks and opportunities and feed into the planner.\n\nReview OTB/OTC requirements, reacting to reforecasts and current trading whilst keeping within stock requirements\n\nWith Buying, highlight margin risks to the business and suggest actions to bring back to plan\n\nGather information from hosts such as footfall, customer insights, changes in their business that would impact our performance and action required changes\n\n· Identify opportunities, and use analytics to solve. This includes optimisation of options, ranging, price, stores, and VM, driving the business through data and analysis to lead Buying and Partner decisions.\n\n· Reforecast sales, stock, intake, and markdown in the WSSI and line cards in readiness for WSSI review\n\nManage the team, ensuring clear priorities and consistent ways of working\n\nExplore all opportunities to drive the success of the team using data and analytics tools\n\nEncourage a culture of transparency, accessibility, regularity, and clear direction.\n\nCoach and guide team members, continually providing clear and transparent feedback in terms of their performance\n\nAlways lead by example. Exert and display behaviours aligned to DCK’s DNA values.\n\nConduct regular 1-2-1’s with direct reports\n\nHelp the team see the ‘bigger picture’\n\nDevelop the team to succeed in their roles and prepare for future roles\n\nRequirements\nYou will have;\nExceptional analytical abilities and clarity of thought\n\nExcellent Attention to detail\n\nVision, initiative and creativity\n\nGreat communication skills\n\nDrive to deliver results\n\nStrong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate competently and clearly.\n\nStrong organisational and task management skills, demonstrate agility with the ability to prioritise and work in a fast moving, reactive business with multiple deadlines resulting in effective delivery\n\nAlways act with trust and integrity\n\nRespects and is respected by peers and builds strong relationships within wider functions\n\nDemonstrates self-awareness and looks for opportunities to better oneself\n\nWhy choose DCK;\nOpportunity to work for a leading independent global fashion business\n\nBe part of a welcoming, friendly business that promotes learning and developing from day one\n\nWork-from-home opportunities and flexible working hours, to help you develop a healthy work-life balance.\n\nEarly finish every Friday\n\n25 days holiday\n\nFree Parking\n\nFree refreshments and fruit with lunch on us once a month\n\nCommunity Group Social Events\n\nPlus, many more additional benefits!","description_format":"text","description_chars":5286,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-13T06:56:16Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":13,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.459,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":40,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-13T19:15:55Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dck-merchandiser","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dck-merchandiser.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-13T19:15:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":29391,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4417490},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4417490"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdck-merchandiser"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdck-merchandiser"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdck-merchandiser"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/dck-merchandiser\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdck-merchandiser"}]}