Merchandising Development Manager

As the Merchandising Development Manager, you’ll lead all data projects and delivery across buying and merchandising, manage the merchandise data and represent the teams on all their key projects with the scope to expand across all relevant business data. You’ll act as a business lead for all relevant Buying & Merchandising systems, representing business requirements while interacting with IT. You’ll ensure process governance around Harrods’ product data model, maintaining best practice at all times, considering wider business implications of any data changes.

You’ll develop insights and strategic perspectives on new opportunities, driving the analyses, presenting the results, and collaborating with teams to develop action plans. You’ll shape corporate merchandising strategy into specific objectives, translating the senior leadership’s vision into deliverable programmes of work. In this role, you’ll develop clearly defined commercial business cases and communicate insights on the impact of competitive industry movements in this area.

About us

As the world’s luxury emporium, we deliver a magical, memorable experience for customers. This makes us uniquely challenging for creative minds, to protect and grow our brand demands extraordinary composure, creativity and commerciality. Harrods’ global brand offers uniquely exciting challenges, and we nurture a supportive environment where creativity, resilience and commercial awareness make anything possible.

About you

You’ll have proven record withing buying or merchandising or data / process team at a senior level. With previous experience of developing new systems or cross-team processes preferential. You’ll have a great knowledge of existing buying and merchandising systems within Harrods.

More specifically, we’re looking for someone with:

• High level of organisation skills and ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Experience of managing a team preferential.
• Commercial skills and inquisitive, analytical mind.
• Good communicator across all levels of the business.

Our promise to you

As we strive to continually create something remarkable for customers, you’ll do the same. This is your chance to add your expertise to our digital journey and shape it by bringing the best out of your team. You’ll find the freedom to be yourself, as well as the support and structure to build a career at Harrods.  

In return, you’ll be rewarded for your contribution with excellent benefits. These include a staff discount of up to 33%, a generous pension and life insurance, plus 25 days’ holiday and your birthday off.

Uniquely you

At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive. What makes you unique makes us exceptional.

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