Warehouse and Head Office Vacancies

Business Analyst

Location: Bromley, Kent (Hybrid)

Full Time and Permanent

Job Reference: BA0723

About the Role

Business analysts play a critical role in helping the company to achieve our goals and objectives, by identifying and documenting business needs, requirements, and solutions. The Business Analyst is a fundamental part of any business project, as they ensures that the project is aligned with the business's goals and objectives.

• Our Business Analysts will work closely with stakeholders at all levels of the company to understand how our practices and processes contribute to the delivery of our current business model
• Facilitate workshops to gather information, test ideas and validate assumptions
• Uncover and communicate potential risks that need to be assessed and mitigated
• Identify potential improvements, efficiencies or opportunities and help stakeholders to make a case for pursuing them
• Pro-actively seek to understand the impact of changes across end-to-end processes, taking into account any additional perspectives that could impact a solution or new way of working
• Provide standardised documentation as a method of communicating as-is and to-be environments, describing stakeholder goals and achieving consensus on a 'definition of done'
• Manage stakeholder expectations of what can be delivered within a specified budget and timeframe
• Undertake regular self reflection and development to keep up with new techniques and tools
• Proactively identify opportunities for business improvement, ensuring outcomes are aligned with service vision and business strategy
• Support the design of new business processes, conducting a thorough analysis of opportunities and alternatives before proposing solutions which optimise business performance and deliver business benefits and efficiencies
• Able to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes
• Support staff and teams in making recommended changes, including helping to resolve any issues
• Encourage Project Sponsors to specify and measure the benefits of change delivered by our projects
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the Technology Directorate's approach to delivering services

About You

• At least 1+ year in a Business Analysis, project or technical role
• End-to-end experience of a project lifecycle
• Demonstration of strong communication skills
• Critical thinking
• Familiarity with Business Analysis techniques
• Awareness of Change Management techniques

Benefits:

• 33 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays)
• Hybrid working - 3 Days in Bromley office / 2 WFH
• Generous Staff discount
• Company Pension Scheme
• Training and career development

What Happens Next?

Should you wish to apply for this role, please submit a cover letter and an up-to-date CV to careers@russellandbromley.co.uk quoting reference BA0723.

 

 

Buyer Administration Assistant

Location: Bromley, Kent (Hybrid)

Full Time and Permanent

Job Reference: BAA0523

We are now hiring for a Buying Administration Assistant (BAA) to provide all round administrative support for the Men's buying team with efficient processes, while demonstrating an aptitude for buying and a passion for product.

About the Role

• Manage all aspects of the buying critical path, delivering exceptional administrative support to the team to ensure everything runs smoothly.
• Ensuring key dates are met and product runs on time, whilst continually prioritising your workload to be in line with the demands of the department and the wider business.
• Support Buying Team to build a commercial range with the ability to critique and present new ideas.
• Carry out regular competitor shopping from luxury to high street and on-line retailers.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of R&B’s customer, commercial awareness and the latest trends.
• Showing initiative on trade and putting forward recommendations to the Buyer.
• Dealing with issues arising with orders both internally and externally.
• Inputting orders accurately onto critical path, and monitoring deliveries.
• Raising and maintaining purchase orders, ensuring amendments are made where necessary.
• Ensuring all orders are sent to Suppliers clearly and efficiently.
• Management and maintenance of all buying samples between departments and to external companies.
• Collating product and relevant information to support the Buying Team.
• Photographing, labelling, storing and dating all samples that are delivered to Buying Department.
• Support the Buying Team by preparing for fit sessions, organising and following up comments to ensure all products are of acceptable quality and fit for our markets.
• Processing samples received (fits, development, shoots/meetings).
• Participating in fit meetings, writing up fit reports, communicating with suppliers and updating critical path.
• Preparing all samples for fit sessions and chasing samples to meet company deadlines.
• Building strong relationships with suppliers, fully understanding their expertise & roles in buying cycles

About You

• At least one year of experience working with the footwear buying sector
• Good use of Microsoft Office – in particular Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong communications skills
• Up to date knowledge of market trends

Benefits:

• 30 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays)
• Hybrid working - 3 Days in Bromley office / 2 WFH
• Generous Staff discount
• Company Pension Scheme
• Training and career development

What Happens Next?

Should you wish to apply for this role, please submit a cover letter and an up-to-date CV to careers@russellandbromley.co.uk quoting reference BAA0523.

 

 

Senior Online Merchandiser

Location: Bromley, Kent (Hybrid)

Full Time and Permanent

Job Reference: SOM0723

We are now hiring for a Senior Online Merchandiser to maintain the online product catalogue, optimise site merchandising to drive conversion, and ensure customers can view the products they most want to shop.

About the Role

• Ensure online inventory is maintained, product prices are updated and new lines published at the earliest opportunity.
• Analyse data to ensure product listing pages are optimised in the best way possible.
• Provide wider team with weekly, monthly and ad hoc analysis using Google Analytics, Contentsquare and Power BI.
• Conduct daily site walks.
• Analyse online returns, understanding reason for returns.
• Ensure suitable product recommendations are assigned to listed products.
• Ensure results pages are created for site navigation, landing pages and site search.
• Document changes to merchandising strategy and testing.
• Manage any dynamic default rules.
• Provide products recommendations to marketing for email campaigns.
• Maintain on-site products, setting up and publishing of any new lines.
• Updating weekly and daily reports along with other ad hoc reports.
• Provide competitor analysis.
• Maintaining reporting of online returns, identifying style that have high returns-rates.
• Oversee the workload of Junior Merchandisers, check quality of their work and provide guidance.
• Manage and improve product lifecycle process, manage online merchandising of key categories.

About You

• Proven experience in an Online Merchandising, Ecommerce or Online Trading role.
• Knowledge of Google Analytics, ContentSquare, some CMS experience.
• Able to analyse large amounts of data and pull findings into presentable format.
• Maths A-Level preferred

Benefits:

• 30 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays)
• Hybrid working - 3 Days in Bromley office / 2 WFH
• Generous Staff discount
• Company Pension Scheme
• Training and career development

What Happens Next?

Should you wish to apply for this role, please submit a cover letter and an up-to-date CV to careers@russellandbromley.co.uk quoting reference SOM0723.