Junior Merchandiser

About Us

Heads Up For Tails is a one-stop pet product's brand with its paw-prints across India. We design,manufacture, and customize high quality and functional pet products to improve the quality of your pet'slife and make pet parenting delightful.

We were founded with the sole aim of making the lives of all pet companions better and on the strongbelief that pets are family. By offering products and services that make pets more comfortable, healthier,and happier, we hope to strengthen the bond between pet and parent.

With a firm belief in safety, innovation, and empathy, we create and curate a range of relevant petproducts and services. We are constantly adding to our inventory of products and services to provideparents with a holistic pet care experience and hope to become rock solid partners in each family’s petparenting journey.

We have over 1200+ employees spread across the country; with 220+ in our headquarters in Gurgaon. Wehave been awarded the ‘Brand of the Year’ Award three times (2017, 2019 and 2021), most recentlyawarded at Homburg Palace, Vienna. We have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 by Great Placeto Work Institute, India.

Position Summary

As a Junior Merchandiser, this individual will be responsible to work in coordination with Senior Merchandisers/buyers.

S/he will ensure that all inventory requirements and customer needs are completed in a timely manner and will be responsible to do sourcing of materials and work with multiple vendors.

Needs to be detail oriented, confident, highly organised, sensitive to timelines and an excellent communicator.

**Responsibilities**:

- The Jr. merchandiser will be responsible to look after the sampling requests.
- Responsible for sourcing trims and fabrics required to make the end product.
- Writing, placing, and tracking purchase orders.
- Creating technical packs and managing product development timelines.
- Ensuring products are purchased at the right time, to specification and at a good price.
- Review product samples and suggest the necessary changes required.
- Tracking product cycle from conceptualization to sales.
- Researching new suppliers and sharing recommendations to the Senior Merchandisers.
- Constantly building customer and market understanding with market researchoffline/online.
- Vendor follow ups and give feedback to vendors regarding quality and other aspects.
- Maintaining a comprehensive fabric/trim library.
- Compiling reports on product performance and statistics.
- Manage Packaging, vendor database, WH team/design/content/E-comm team coordination.

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies
- 1-3 years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Fashion Management.
- Should be a good team player and able to work under deadlines.
- Open to travel locally for sourcing of materials.
- Animal lover/Pet Parent preferred.
- Good knowledge of merchandise planning/analytics.
- Good understanding of product development processes.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal & written).
- Problem solving and analytical skills.
- Comfortable working with excel sheets and presentation formats.

What Heads Up For Tails Can Offer You:
Heads Up For Tails is the single largest organized leader in the growing pet care industry in India, a market thats estimated to reach INR 5475 crores by 2025. With an omni-channel network of manufacturing, retail, e-commerce and distribution, Heads Up For Tails can offer you a dynamic and ambitious work environment where you can leverage your experiences and skills to solve exciting, complex problems. We offer you a culture that thrives on ownership and initiative, where people who are excited about taking the path less travelled will thrive and succeed.