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Wholesale Merchandise Assistant

Salary Range
£20,000 - £25,849
£1,667 - £2,154 / mo

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Location Base
Rochdale, England
Tier-1 UK Economic Zone
Est. Take-Home Pay
68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)
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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard
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Position Overview & Specifications

Description

We are looking for a highly motivated and organised Wholesale Merchandising Assistant to join our team at Footasylum. You will work closely with the Supply Chain and Merchandising team supporting management of Footasylum Brands operations, production to customer delivery, through the attention to detail and an understanding of the knock-on effects of every task undertaken.

The role is varied and will include:

  • Run and distribute Wholesale daily reports.
  • Create item cards / Raise Purchase Orders and share with Factories.
  • Process Wholesale transfers
  • Checking and approval of factory submissions such barcode labels and carton labels.
  • Critical Path management support adding new orders, removing receipted and uploading revised dates into the system.
  • Perform regular reconciliations, problem solving and progress chasing of shipments and invoices.
  • Ensure documentation for import/export shipments is accurate for all Wholesale Freight movements.
  • Understand financial documents and work with the Accounts team to manage payments and invoices.
  • Work closely with freight forwarders and suppliers

The Teams

The Merchandise team is an extended family split into departments, you will get to know the wider team but also across the departments. The departments are split to focus down on certain areas such as Apparel, Footwear and Accessories, DTC, Wholesale and SEVENSTORE.

We drive personal development and provide all the tools to help you feel empowered.

About You

We love people with passion. It can be with fashion, it can be with something else but we want to help utilise that passion in to your career. We encourage people to defy the ordinary.

You will be driven, ambitious and motivated and we will harness this into your development. You will care about the stakeholders and customers.

We are ideally looking for someone with good understanding of import/supply chain processes who possesses analytical skills.

Diversity

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are providing service to our colleagues and customers. We know that this will help us build a great service, which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences.

Recruitment Process

We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we’re a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you.

Please note, this is not a remote role and our expectation is that you will be able to attend Head Office in a hybrid way, in Greater Manchester.

Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process

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Application & Resume Screening

Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.

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Technical & Competency Interviews

Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.

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Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation

Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.

4

Onboarding & Corporate Integration

Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.

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Corridor Intelligence

Employment in the United Kingdom requires legal Right to Work verified under the Home Office Points-Based Immigration System:

🇬🇧 Skilled Worker Visa (Tier 2)

Sponsoring employers must hold an active Home Office A-rated Sponsor License and assign a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Role must meet the general minimum salary threshold (£38,700) or occupation going rate.

🏛️ Settlement (ILR) Pathway

Continuous employment under Skilled Worker status establishes eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) after 5 continuous years, leading to British Citizenship.

⚖️ Official regulatory reference: UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) & Home Office Sponsor Register.

Candidate Preparation Blueprint: Department, Clothing & Shoe Stores

Recruitment Insights

Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for Wholesale Merchandise Assistant roles across Footasylum's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:

1. Domain Competency

Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to Department, Clothing & Shoe Stores.

2. Behavioral & Leadership

STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.

3. Compensation Alignment

Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked £20,000 - £25,849 bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.

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