[Hiring] Inventory Merchandiser & Allocation Planner @Glassworks London

Role Description

We are hiring an experienced Inventory Merchandiser & Allocation Planner to take ownership of our recurring inventory merchandising process, with a simple mission: the right stock in the right location, in the right quantity, at the right time.

Glassworks already operates a substantial proprietary inventory model covering stock by location, sales, purchasing history, reorder logic and transfer recommendations. Your immediate priority will be to learn and operate that model safely, QA its outputs and apply strong commercial merchandising judgement where recommendations are incomplete or incorrect.

You will own the weekly allocation, replenishment, transfer, capacity and reorder process, provide assortment and intake signals to Product / Buying, ensure agreed stock actions are followed through, and identify opportunities to improve stock availability, inventory productivity and sell-through.

Reporting directly to the Founder / CEO, you will work closely with Product / Buying, Retail, Ecommerce, Warehouse, the Head of Business Operations and Business Systems & Technology Operations. Over time, you will help strengthen the decision logic behind Glassworks' proprietary merchandising systems, while Business Systems & Technology Operations owns their technical development.

This is a remote / offshore role. Applicants may be based outside the UK, including India, South Africa or Eastern Europe, but must work substantially within UK business hours, Monday to Friday, 9am–5.30pm UK time.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on inventory merchandising experience.
• Experience in assortment, option or range planning.
• Store capacity planning expertise.
• Multi-store stock allocation experience.
• Replenishment ownership.
• Inter-store stock balancing.
• Sell-through, stock-cover and stock-turn analysis.
• Size / SKU-level availability management.
• Experience turning analysis into specific commercial stock actions.
• Experience across both physical retail and ecommerce.
• Overstock, understock and ageing management.
• Making sound merchandising decisions where data is incomplete or conflicting.

Requirements

• Highly confident working directly in large, formula-driven Excel models.
• Ability to navigate complex workbooks and trace formulas.
• Distinguishing raw inputs, calculated fields and manual overrides.
• Using lookups, pivots, filters and conditional logic.
• Troubleshooting formula or output issues.
• Safely maintaining existing models without breaking downstream logic.
• Comfortable using, understanding, interrogating and safely improving an established operating model.
• Fashion or apparel experience is strongly preferred.
• Candidates from closely comparable multi-store specialty retail may also be considered.

Company Description

Glassworks London is an independent fashion retailer with five UK stores and a growing ecommerce business. We operate a weekly product-drop model across stores and online and as such, source and produce on a weekly basis. As the business grows, we are strengthening the way we allocate, replenish and rebalance stock so that inventory decisions are faster, more systematic and less dependent on founder-held judgement.