If you love beauty, you’re in the right place.

As the ultimate curator of over 100 of the most in-demand, highly innovative and boundary-pushing beauty brands, we are the go-to destination for worldwide beauty discovery.

Together through our neighbourhood stores, online presence and loyalty scheme, Space NK has built a flourishing community in which to discover beauty. The customer is at the heart of everything we do, and we will always endeavour to offer everything they need to help them explore, experiment, and enjoy our brands.

We are excited to announce that due to our continuous growth we are recruiting for an MAA! 

Areas of Responsibility:

STOCK MANAGEMENT

• Purchase order management - raising orders and sharing with Brands in a timely manner. Ensuring PO dates accurately reflect bookings dates and potential changes.
• Maintaining accurate supplier out of stock reporting on Navision and Excel to feed into availability reporting.
• Intake management - accurate management of the delivery schedule, ensuring delivery dates are met by brands and communicating any short shipments, late deliveries, and cancellations to the Merchandising team and the wider business. Understanding the impact to the business.
• Under the guidance of Merchandiser, ensure new line ranging and allocations are actioned accurately and in a timely manner in line with agreed launch dates.

TRADING

• Produce and compile Monday trade reports, checking data is accurate and highlighting any anomalies to Assistant Merchandiser.
• Work with Inventory Merch to execute Store Recalls.
• Undertake monthly store visits to assess opportunities and risks.
• Accurate input of markdown and promotions into the system.
• Produce ad hoc analysis as requested.
• Attending marketing meetings to ensure that stock is available to support launches, events, emails etc.

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

• Develop excellent working knowledge of all Merchandising systems. Qlikview, Navision, AGR.
• Develop a good understanding of basic retail maths.
• Develop and build strong relationships and networks with cross functional partners both internally and externally.
• Support in the training and development of new starters.
• Responsible for driving their own development and actively seeking out training as required.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience:

• Entry Level – No merchandising experience required but some retail knowledge is preferred.
• Good Excel skills and basic knowledge of other Microsoft Office tools.
• Numerical – the role requires a good level of mathematical competency.

Competencies and Requirements

• Analytical with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to demonstrate organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and take initiative.
• Self starter and able to work efficiently from home.
• (Please note that the category that this role sits within will be Fragrance)

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience:

• Excellent Excel skills
• Experience of multi brand business; luxury brands is highly desirable
  Advanced Excel skills
• Knowledge of a multi-channel business, stores, and ecommerce ideal

Competencies and Personal Attributes:

• Entrepreneurial mind set and self-motivated
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Enthusiastic and self-confident
• Problem solver and solutions orientated
• Analytical with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Adaptable and open to change, willing to take on new challenges and driven to continually improve
• Ability to demonstrate excellent planning and organisational skills
• Resourceful and commercial

Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted.

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

If you want to find out more about us, what it is like to work for us, all about our benefits, and our pledges on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, please visit our website.

Space NK are an equal opportunities employer.

How We Will Use Your Information

We will use the information you provide to us with your job application to help us process your application for the specific job you have applied for. If you apply speculatively, we will process your application for the job/relevant business area that you detail within your email.

Please note that our current system does not use an automated filtering system.

All applications made via the website, through a third-party website or in-store will be kept on file for a period of 12 months.

This information will be retained and used to assess your suitability to similar positions that may arise in the future, or if the initial vacancy becomes live again during the 12-month period. If you would prefer us to not hold your information on file/ you wish to be ‘forgotten’ if you are not offered a position with Space NK, please email your ‘right to be forgotten’ to our recruitment email address with RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN as the title of the email. We will always inform you when we have deleted your application details, otherwise we will treat your application as consent to us holding this information.