EMEA Market Merchandiser - Endura

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Reports to: VP Market Merchandising

Location: London, Farringdon

Hours: 36.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday (4.30pm finish on a Friday)

The EMEA Market Merchandiser Mission:

As the Marketplace Merchandiser for Endura, you are the voice of the consumer in the region and the operational connector between brand, product, and market. You’ll manage and deliver the creation of consumer-right assortments and price positioning across Endura key markets in EMEA—optimising for growth, profitability, and brand equity.

You’ll gather, distil, and action market insights, sales feedback, and data analytics to influence global range direction, drive best-in-class regional assortments, and ensure Endura shows up in the right places, at the right time, at the right price, in the right quantity for the right planet.

This role is pivotal to operationalising Endura global strategy within the region—helping to protect and grow our swim category leadership in EMEA.

How you'll drive success:

• Manage and optimise the Endura EMEA product assortment in collaboration with commercial and product teams, balancing local relevance with global brand strategy.

• Coordinate tailored assortments for key strategic regions/partners to drive adoption and elevate brand perception.

• Create assortments using sell-in/sell-out, ROI, and margin data.

• Deliver seasonal editing with a “less is more” focus, prioritising hero products, storytelling, segmentation, and credible outfit building.

• Manage pricing inputs (working closely with the Pricing Analyst): gather market benchmarks, GBB architecture, consumer perception, and competitive insights.

• Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Finance to recommend pricing strategies aligned to margin, volume, and brand equity goals.

• Support simplification across pricing lists and contribute to building scalable frameworks.

• Deliver and manage the analysis of Endura EMEA assortment performance against key metrics: ASP, margin %, adoption, sell-through, penetration.

• Prepare seasonal "lessons learned" reports and feed insights into future planning.

• Track competitor performance, market trends, and category shifts; turn insights into actionable recommendations.

• Manage forecasting inputs: work with Sales and Planning teams to submit accurate forecasts by style, door, and channel.

• Pressure test forecasts against historical data and market potential to optimise buys and minimise risk.

• Support alignment between product strategy and financial planning to ensure sourcing accuracy and cost efficiency.

• Coordinate and deliver regional GTM tools: storytelling, range explanation, segmentation guidance, and key line direction.

• Equip Sales teams with regionalised tools, key talking points, and tailored content.

• Support sales launches and key partner meetings across priority markets.

• Coordinate inputs between Product, Sales, and Planning teams for the EMEA region, balancing brand ambition with commercial needs.

• Feed regional insights into the global briefing process and roadmap planning.

• Partner with Finance and DTC teams to embed consumer-centric thinking and margin responsibilit y.

What you'll need to thrive:

• Strong merchandising expertise across assortment planning, pricing, segmentation, and line architecture.

• Advanced analytical and commercial acumen: ability to interpret data and tell actionable stories.

• Experience contributing to forecasting, demand planning, and pricing positioning processes.

• Strategic mindset with strong operational delivery capability.

• Consumer-obsessed, commercially sharp, and brand proud.

• Curious, proactive, and adaptable—able to operate independently within defined frameworks.

• Strong communicator and collaborator—able to influence across functions without direct authority.

• Comfortable using digital tools and evolving technologies; openness to AI and automation is a plu s.

Alongside a competitive salary and discretionary bonus, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, flexibility, and life outside work. This includes generous holiday allowance with the option to buy more, hybrid and flexible working, enhanced family leave, pension and financial protection, wellbeing support, travel schemes, and generous discounts across Pentland Brands and selected retail partners. You can find full details of our benefits and perks on our UK Benefits page .

The Interview Process

We want our interview process to feel clear, straightforward, and supportive. If your experience and expectations look like a strong match for the role, here’s what you can expect next:

1. Talent Team Intro Call - A 30-minute video call with our Talent Team to get to know each other, talk through the role and your experience, and answer any questions you have.

2. Experience Interview - A more in-depth interview (usually online) with the hiring manager to explore your skills, experience and approach, and how these align with the role, our principles, and our ways of working.

3. Final Interview - A final in-person interview at our office, focused on deeper discussion and practical application, giving you the chance to meet more of the team and see Pentland Brands in action.