Senior Regional Merchandiser (12-month FTC)

Job Title: Senior Regional Merchandiser - 12-month FTC Location: London / Hybrid - 3 days p/w in the office Reporting To: Merchandising Planning Director Who we are

At Monica Vinader, we believe luxury should be empowering, long-lasting and responsibly made. Guided by integrity, craftsmanship and innovation, our goal is to elevate people's lives by opening access to a more beautiful world.

From crafting consciously with recycled precious metals and ethically sourced materials, to designing enduring, versatile pieces made to be layered, loved and lived in every day, we are redefining what modern jewellery can be. We create jewellery that marks moments, tells stories and becomes part of who you are, all while making responsible luxury more accessible.

Our commitment to sustainability, innovation and positive impact continues to be recognised across the industry.

We are proud to have received:

• Responsible Jewellery Brand, 2026 - Country & Town House

• Responsible Luxury Business of the Year, 2025 & 2026 - Positive Luxury

• Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces (UK & NI), 2024 - Inspiring Workplaces

With a global footprint across physical retail, e-commerce and trusted partners, we put our community at the heart of everything we do. Proudly female-founded and inclusive, we build meaningful relationships with the people who wear and love our jewellery.

We are looking for a Senior Regional Merchandiser to join us as we continue this journey and help us shape what the future of modern jewellery can and should be.

Where we need your help

The Senior Regional Merchandiser is the architect of our stock flow strategy across all channels and regions. You own the end to end management of how product reaches our customers, from the moment it leaves the warehouse to when it is displayed on the shop floor. Balancing analytics with a commercial mindset, you ensure every door has the right depth, breadth, and newness cadence to maximize sales while protecting profit. This is a highly visible, strategic role that acts as the vital link between our central merchandising/product teams and our global leadership, ensuring healthy stock both in store and warehouse. The role involves supporting on all D2C and wholesale accounts including own stores, physical and online concessions and trade partners, with direct reports taking a lead on specific regions.

This is a role for someone who is equally comfortable in the spreadsheet and in the room: pairing analytical rigour with the influencing skills needed to land trading decisions with cross functional partners at pace.

What you'll do Strategy & Store Tiering

• Tiering Architecture, Owns the global store tiering framework, grading locations by turnover, customer profile, and space. Regularly review and flex this framework to optimize assortment, depth, and replenishment frequency in alignment with regional MDs

• Target Setting, Oversee store level target setting processes, ensuring they align with broader regional commercial goals and inventory availability. Build the correct process for target setting for never out of stock, continuity, and new product. Ensuring this flows into all inventory calculations across retail, outlet, web and wholesale

• Capacity & VM Alignment, Own stock capacity and work with VM to align on needs in stores, ensuring that our allocation strategies are physically executable and visually impactful.

Floorset & Launch Execution

• Lead regional allocation planning, ensuring clear, actionable direction is provided to both internal and external stakeholders.

• Communication, Act as the primary point of contact for floorset communication, ensuring regional teams and store partners are fully briefed on product priorities, pacing, and execution expectations.

• Feedback Loops, Synthesize store feedback to inform future allocation strategies and product mix adjustments.

Operations & Stock Management

• Supply Allocation, Oversee the end to end allocation process, including initial launches, ongoing core replenishment, and reactive moves like inter branch transfers and stock consolidation between channels.

• Operational Health, Take full ownership of In Store Availability (ISA) metrics, identifying risks and driving solutions to improve stock availability and sell through.

• Stock Sharing, Strategically manage stock sharing between channels (Web, Retail, Concessions) to maximize global availability and minimize terminal stock risk

• Consolidation: Optimize inventory across the network by proposing and executing seamless consolidation

• Event calendars, Understand global events impacting replenishment needs, including regional nuances

Promotional & Trading Strategy

• Ensure full understanding of promotional activity in the regions, providing input into planning, trading during promotional periods, and maintaining constant feedback loops with the central team regarding regional performance, challenges, and opportunities.

Strategy, S&OP & X-Functional Leadership

• Trade & S&OP Inputs, Provide the primary commercial voice for branch and regional activity in Trade and S&OP meetings. Translate high level strategy into actionable regional stock plans with focus on peak trading periods

• Global Partnership, Partner closely with Merchandising, Supply Chain, and Product teams. Lead regular syncs with MDs across all regions to ensure allocation plans are reflective of local nuances, market trends, and unique store requirements.

What you'll bring

This role aligns with the competencies for a Mid-Level (Level 2) role in our Head Office Capability Framework:

Connect & Empower

• Communicates Effectively: You structure communication with purpose and clarity, tailoring stock logic and floor set directions into clear, actionable guidelines for retail teams, concession partners, and regional Managing Directors.

• Collaborates Proactively: You build strong cross functional partnerships across Merchandising, Supply Chain, VM, and Regional MDs, coordinating stock sharing across channels (Retail, Web, Wholesale) to eliminate friction and maximise global stock availability.

Drive & Deliver

• Dives Deep: You routinely audit complex datasets-including min/max settings, allocation logic, sell through, and ISA (In Store Availability) metrics-testing assumptions with data to pinpoint inventory risks and commercial opportunities.

• Focuses on the Right Thing: You prioritise stock depth, breadth, and replenishment pacing for high impact doors and key trading windows, executing stock consolidations to minimise terminal stock risk and maximise ROI.

Grow & Adapt

• Challenges & Commits: You act as the primary commercial voice in regional trade and S&OP meetings, constructively challenging allocation plans early using evidence, and aligning fully with partners once trading decisions are made.

Master & Apply

• Functional/Technical Expertise: You bring proven expertise in branch merchandising, store tiering architecture, capacity planning, and ISA management. You possess advanced technical proficiency in allocation and replenishment systems (ERP, BI tools) and Excel.

To be successful at Monica Vinader, it helps if you

• Are hands on, solutions focused, and entrepreneurial

• Collaborate openly with humility, honesty, and humour

• Embrace learning, teaching, and personal growth

• Stay resilient, adaptable, and self motivated in a creative environment

• Speak up when you don't know - and act fast to figure it out

Additional Requirements

Ability to document your authorisation to work in the United Kingdom.

Travel Requirements

Regular travel to our Norfolk Office will be required (at least once per month).

Our Aims and Values

Our mission is to be the leading accessible luxury brand, by delivering outstanding quality, design and customer service. We are:

Customer Obsessed

We put our customers at the centre of every decision and deliver thoughtful, personal experiences.

Caring

We act with respect and empathy for people, communities, and the planet.

Fast Paced

We move with focus and flexibility to make progress quickly and decisively.

Exceptional

We hold ourselves to high standards and are always learning, improving, and raising the bar.

Commercial

We make smart, data led decisions that create long term value for the business and our customers.

Monica Vinader as a global business makes the following inclusive culture pledge:

Our jewellery is for everyone and so is our community. Together, we will continue to implement sustainable changes to ensure that career opportunities and progression are open to all. We commit to celebrating the diverse voices of our employees, partners, and the customers we serve