Merchandiser - Retail
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Experience: 3-5 years
About the Company
We are a retail organization focused on delivering relevant products, dependable availability, and engaging customer experiences across physical and digital channels. Our commercial performance depends on understanding customer demand, selecting the right assortment, managing inventory effectively, and presenting products clearly throughout the shopping journey. The merchandising team works closely with buying, planning, supply chain, retail operations, e-commerce, marketing, and suppliers to turn commercial priorities into profitable product decisions. We value practical analysis, disciplined execution, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Our teams use trading performance, customer insight, inventory data, and market awareness to improve availability, sell-through, margin, and customer satisfaction. This role joins a hands-on environment where merchandisers are expected to connect product decisions with measurable retail outcomes. The successful candidate will contribute to a responsive merchandising operation that balances customer needs, commercial targets, stock health, and operational realities across the business.
About the Role
The Merchandiser owns the day-to-day commercial performance of an assigned product category or portfolio. Through sales analysis, assortment management, stock planning, replenishment coordination, pricing input, and trading actions, the role improves availability, sell-through, margin, and inventory productivity. This position connects product decisions with customer demand and operational execution across stores and digital channels. Success means the right products are available at the right time, stock is balanced against demand, trading risks are identified early, and commercial opportunities are acted on quickly. The role suits a hands-on retail professional who can combine analytical thinking with practical coordination and confident communication across multiple teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor daily and weekly sales, stock, margin, sell-through, availability, and inventory-cover performance to identify risks, opportunities, and actions for assigned categories.
- Maintain accurate assortment, range, option, pricing, and product information in relevant systems, ensuring commercial teams and customer-facing channels have dependable data.
- Coordinate replenishment, allocation, stock transfers, and availability actions with planning, supply chain, stores, and e-commerce teams to protect sales and reduce lost opportunities.
- Support seasonal range reviews, product launches, promotional activity, and assortment changes by preparing analysis, recommendations, timelines, and execution requirements.
- Identify slow-moving, excess, aged, and at-risk inventory, recommending markdowns, transfers, promotions, or other actions that improve stock productivity and protect margin.
- Prepare regular trading reports and category updates, translating data into clear recommendations for buyers, planners, retail operations, marketing, and senior stakeholders.
- Collaborate with suppliers and internal partners to resolve product, delivery, data, quality, and availability issues that affect customer experience or commercial performance.
Essential Skills & Technologies
- Strong retail merchandising and trading-analysis capability, including sales, stock, margin, sell-through, availability, inventory cover, markdown, and forecast interpretation.
- Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel or equivalent spreadsheet tools, with ability to use formulas, pivot tables, dashboards, and data analysis to support timely commercial decisions.
- Experience using merchandising, enterprise resource planning, inventory, product information, or e-commerce systems to manage product data, stock visibility, and trading workflows.
- Strong coordination and communication skills, with confidence working across buying, planning, supply chain, stores, e-commerce, suppliers, and commercial leadership.
- Organized and detail-focused approach to managing product information, reporting deadlines, action tracking, priorities, and follow-through in a fast-moving retail environment.
Additional Plus
- Experience in sports, lifestyle, fashion, footwear, consumer goods, or another customer-led retail category with seasonal demand and multi-channel trading.
- Familiarity with allocation, assortment planning, open-to-buy processes, promotional forecasting, markdown management, or category performance reporting.
- Experience working with omnichannel retail models where store and e-commerce availability, pricing, and product presentation must remain aligned.
What You'll Bring
- 3–5 years of merchandising, planning, trading, category, inventory, or related retail experience, with practical understanding of how product and stock decisions influence commercial performance.
- A relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience, supported by strong numerical ability and confidence interpreting retail data to make clear, timely recommendations.
- Proven ability to manage a product portfolio or category, track performance, identify risks, and coordinate actions that improve availability, sell-through, margin, and stock productivity.
- Strong Excel or spreadsheet capability and experience working with retail systems, reports, product data, stock information, and commercial dashboards.
- Clear communication and stakeholder-management skills, with ability to work effectively across buying, planning, supply chain, stores, e-commerce, suppliers, and support functions.
- Immediate availability or a short notice period is required, alongside a proactive, practical, and commercially minded approach to a changing retail environment.
Why Join Us
This role offers the opportunity to influence how a retail business selects, manages, and presents products for customers across stores and digital channels. You will work close to the commercial engine, using trading data and customer demand to make practical decisions that affect availability, sales, margin, inventory health, and shopping experience. The position provides broad exposure to buying, planning, supply chain, retail operations, e-commerce, suppliers, and commercial leadership, allowing you to build a well-rounded retail career. You will have meaningful ownership of an assigned category or product portfolio while working in a collaborative environment where decisions are expected to lead to measurable outcomes. The role suits someone who enjoys combining analysis with action, spotting issues early, and coordinating teams to resolve them. Your contribution will be visible through stronger sell-through, better stock productivity, improved product availability, and more responsive trading performance. It is a strong opportunity to deepen merchandising expertise while developing the commercial judgment and stakeholder confidence needed for future progression.
What We Offer
- Ownership of an assigned retail category or product portfolio, with direct influence on sales, availability, sell-through, margin, and inventory productivity.
- Broad cross-functional exposure across buying, planning, supply chain, stores, e-commerce, suppliers, and commercial teams to build strong end-to-end retail expertise.
- A practical, fast-moving environment where analysis leads to action and merchandising recommendations can create visible improvements in customer experience and business performance.
- Opportunities to strengthen trading, assortment, inventory, reporting, and stakeholder-management capabilities while contributing to the growth of the retail business.
