Merchandiser

About Us:

Since we were founded in 2016, DUSK has been bringing adorable luxury

homeware to the UK, making beautifully curated homeware accessible to all

through offering the best prices, quality, and service.

We are a rapidly growing, fast-paced business, and pride ourselves on offering

our customers the highest standard of products and service. In the year to

March 2026, we delivered revenue of £195 million, a 28% increase on the

previous year.

About the Role:Trading:

• OTB management
• WSSI forecasting and Weekly inventory meetings
• Preparation and delivery of management information
• Trading and management of sales, stock and clearance in season
• Monitors and maintains buying margin and gross profit margins as requested
• Reviews sales forecasts based on performance, and actions re forecasts
• Analyses and monitors best and worst sellers and makes informed recommendations for action
• Suggesting sales driving activity to drive cash and reduce stock where appropriate.
• Clearance and Markdown plans in conjunction with buying.
• End to end stock flow for relevant departments
• Drive stock turn and deliver business stock levels in line with budget. (Store/DC/Dockside)
• Recommends promotions and re buys as necessary
• Manage suppliers ensuring a strong mutually beneficial relationship

Strategy:

• Have an input to strategic plans
• Analyse historical and in season performance and be proactive in interpreting, communicating and acting on results
• Supporting planning of budgets by category, option count, and depth of buy based on the overall business and financial goals of the company
• Support the building of a range plan alongside the buyer
• Promotional/seasonal planning support
• Constantly identifying and implementing Merchandising process improvements
• Liaising cross functionally to deliver the department plans.
• Deputising for the Head of Merchandising when appropriate
• Support junior member of the team on a day to day basis and drive their development.

The candidate we are looking for:

• Strong computer literacy skills – especially in Excel
• A solid understanding of WSSI
• Analytical skills – confident in working with and extract insight from data
• Strong decision making, time management skills and able to prioritise workload
• Good commercial knowledge – specifically on wider marketplace and broader business
• Team player attitude