Retail Merchandiser

**About Us**:
Zouk is a modern Indian lifestyle brand. All our products are 100% PeTA approved Vegan and Proudly Indian. We currently operate in the bags, wallets and footwear. We are building an iconic global consumer brand from India. We aim to achieve this by making great products and building the best consumer brand team in India.

The founders have ~15 years of experience across startups, large companies and are alumni of IIT & IIM. Zouk is a funded startup, backed by Stellaris Venture Partners, Titan Capital (run by the founders of Snapdeal), Sharrp Ventures (Harsh Mariwala family office), JJ Family Office, Dilip Khandelwal and the founders of Mamaearth, Beardo, Wow Skin Science, Sugar Cosmetics & Atomberg

Zouk sells via its own website and marketplaces like Amazon, Myntra. Zouk has over 400,000+ Happy Customers and has been featured by media outlets like CNBC TV18, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, ET Prime, YourStory. Our bags were also organically featured in the Vidya Balan movie Sherni, Amazon Prime movie Majaa Maa, Netflix’s show Little Things 3, Amazon Prime series Hush Hush and Sony TV’s Bade Acche Lagte Hain 2. When Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi went to the US in 2021, our bags went as gifts given to global CEOs. We also won the Best Vegan Wallets brand award from PeTA India in 2021.

Zouk started its offline presence from June’23 with a flagship store at Seawoods mall, Mumbai and second store at Brigade Orion mall Bangalore. We will be opening 6 new stores in FY 23-24 and open various SIS at various department stores like Shoppers Stop etc..

**Role & Responsibilities**:

- Handle day-to-day operations for all modern trade relationships - Shoppers Stop, Crossword, Emami etc.
- Does sales analysis across all offline channels to understand category split, UPTs, prepare DSR, plan replenishment
- Handling the Brand extension inventory across PAN India stores.
- Monitoring the best sellers and slow sellers to take action accordingly.
- Build and develop strong relationships with the store management and associates.
- Planned and forecasted sales, inventories and markdown.
- Following up with the logistics team for timely delivery.
- Execute accurate and timely supplier selection.
- Coordinate sales data with on-store visual merchandising, to ensure we build some store IPs
- IP1 - ensuring print of the week is setup on the table
- IP2 - ensuring a bestsellers table setup, based on data at a store level
- IP3 - ensure stocks on offer is setup
- Build further IPs, based on objectives like
- Increasing conversion rate for walk-ins via discounting
- Increasing AOV by pushing higher value products
- Increasing UPT by pushing combos, discounting
- Measure incentive structures and calculates payout based on rules for EBOs and MT stores staff
- Constantly updating our store SOPs and staff SOPs across channels based on new happenings
- Other items

High-level background could be someone with
- 2-4 years of experience in retail, preferably in a fashion or lifestyle brand side
- Numbers and analytics driven
- Good people skills to be able to navigate across org and external stakeholders
- High willingness to learn and adapt to a new-age brand culture that is online heavy and is building 0 to 1 journey on offline side
- Has worked with modern trade teams in the past and has done some bits of floor merchandising work
- **Mandatory that the person will be Mumbai-based**

**Why join us?**

We are a young and dynamic team, so you will get to make a significant impact, learn a lot, and have fun in the process.

We are building our team as well, so this is a great opportunity to quickly climb up the ladder and become among the top D2C experts in India. We are a well-funded business, with best-in-class D2C founders as our investors.

We are rapidly growing month-on-month, so you get to be a part of the hyper-growth phase.

**Job Details**:

- Work timings: Monday to Saturday
- Work location: Chembur,Mumbai
- CTC: As per market standard
- Reporting: To Offline Revenue Lead

**Salary**: ₹40,000.00 - ₹55,000.00 per month

Schedule:

- Day shift

**Experience**:

- total work: 2 years (preferred)

Work Location: In person

**Speak with the employer**
+91 9000000000