Merchandising Operations Specialist

Overview

Who You Are

You are a highly detail-oriented operational professional with an analytical mindset and a knack for problem-solving. You thrive in fast-paced retail environments and enjoy translating complex product data into seamless consumer experiences. You are comfortable working with large datasets, navigating merchandising tools, and connecting dots across multiple retail channels. Most importantly, you are proactive, collaborative, and always looking for ways to simplify and streamline operational workflows.

What You’ll Do

As a Merchandising Operations Specialist II, you will play a critical role in delivering the right product assortments to consumers across digital and physical store channels. You will support day-to-day buying and trading processes, manage operational data integrity, and help coordinate cross-functional execution with key business partners.

This is a 6-months fixed term salaried position contracted via Aquent on behalf of our client as a third party. There is the possibility for extension. The role offers c. €45K /annum (pro rata) – 40 hrs/week. 

Due to the contracting nature of this role, only candidates with unrestricted rights to work in The Netherlands will be considered. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Operational Execution: Support the seasonal execution of assortment plans across digital commerce and brick-and-mortar store channels.

• Data & Systems Management: Maintain and manage internal merchandising tools, systems, and operational databases to ensure absolute data accuracy.

• Data Analysis & Reporting: Gather data from sales, retail, and product creation sources; validate accuracy, research outliers, and build standardized reports to support decision-making.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner daily with Merchandising, Planning, Allocation, Supply Chain, and external third-party vendors to ensure timely and high-quality product delivery.

• Process Improvement: Identify bottlenecks in current workflows and contribute to projects focused on enhancing merchandising tools, systems, and overall operational capabilities.

• IT Liaison: Act as a functional representative with IT partners to ensure merchandising systems requirements and technical issues are addressed.

What You Bring

• Experience: Min. of 2 to 4 years of directly relevant work experience in retail operations, merchandising, planning, or digital commerce.

• Analytical Mindset: Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to validate, clean, and draw actionable conclusions from complex datasets.

• Tools & Systems: Proven comfort working with merchandising tools, databases, and standard retail enterprise systems. Advanced Excel skills (such as VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, and basic data modeling) are highly preferred.

• Communication & Stakeholder Management: Strong communication skills with a proven ability to coordinate execution across cross-functional teams and external vendors.