Merchandising Intern

Position

FENDI is pleased to announce a Merchandising Internship Program. Reporting to the Merchandising Team, the selected applicant will be able to get some real-world exposure in the realms of merchandising.

This is a full-time internship program, ideally, lasting for a period of 6 months.

Job Responsibilities

• Sales Analysis and Product Research
• Learn to use Power BI system in Fendi and to conduct sales reports for insights
• Conduct market research to understand current trends and consumer preferences on assigned category
• Research competitors’ merchandising strategies.
• Stock & Inventory Management
• Participate in the process of store stock request fulfilment
• Manage stock rebalancing and coordination with Supply chain team on stock allocation
• Product Assortment Planning
• Aid in the selection and assortment planning process by analyzing past sales and market trends
• Use Power BI reports to general meaningful insights on store performances to assist in assortment planning
• Collection Launch Planning
• Assist in planning and coordinating in stock allocation by store for every collection launch
• Prepare collection launch documents such as product maps & pricing
• WOF Events / MTO orders
• Prepare product assortment mapping & work with Supply Chain team on Cites followups
• Follow up on Leathergoods & Fur MTO Orders with HQ
• Customer Insights
• Gather customer feedback and insights from Stores to help refine merchandising strategies.
• Conduct surveys or focus groups to understand customer preferences.
• Collaboration with internal departments
• Collaboration with Visual Merchandising, CRM and Marketing departments
• Networking
• Build relationships with other departments and office team
  

Profile

• Ideally, candidate should be an undergraduate / graduate pursuing a degree in a related discipline (e.g. Fashion buying, merchandising, business management etc)
• A good inquisitively towards finer details, able to perform some basic analysis and probe for variances / trends
• Good excel skillset with the ability to execute some formulas such as vlookup /pivot table and macros
• Good people skills, as this role involves interactions with various stakeholders within/across departments
• Ability to commit a full-time schedule over a period of 5-6 months.