Assistant Merchandiser

The Role

We’re looking for a commercially minded Assistant Merchandiser to help drive sales, maximise margins, and optimise availability across our physical stores and ecommerce channels.

In this position, you’ll translate data into valuable insights, support trading decisions across our retail channels and help shape strategies for long‑term planning. This role is ideal for an early career merchandiser eager to develop their analytical, forecasting and stock‑management skills within a fast‑paced, multi‑channel retail environment.

Who we are

We are one of the most famous clubs in world football, with a rich heritage and history of success – read more about our history, here.

Beyond that, we are passionate about our local community and, behind the scenes, we have a wide variety of opportunities and career paths for all. We have a very defined purpose: to act for a winning team, culture and community. We achieve this by ensuring we are courageous in the pursuit of progress, we champion our community and each other, and that we do the right thing (even when no one is looking).

Our Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed to ensuring that our environments for children, young people and adults at risk remain safe and inclusive. We therefore require successful candidates to complete a DBS check and other essential background checks prior to starting their employment. Depending on the responsibilities of the role, a DBS will be either a basic, standard, or enhanced check.

Your day-to-day

• Support trading and forecasting plans - you’ll assist in maintaining sales, stock, intake and margin plans across retail categories

• Analyse trading performance - you will review trading performance against key metrics, highlighting risks, opportunities and variances

• Produce clear, informative reports - you’ll create weekly and ad‑hoc insight reports to identify opportunities and support trading decisions

• Monitor sales and stock health - you will assess performance by product, category and channel to identify trends

• Manage allocation and replenishment - you’ll support stock management, overseeing intake, replenishment and availability across stores and ecommerce

• Maintain tools and processes - you will ensure system data is accurate and up to date, contributing to the ongoing improvements across analysis, planning and reporting

• Collaborate cross‑functionally - you’ll partner with Buying, Supply Chain and Operations teams to resolve issues and support long-term range planning

What we are looking for

• Merchandising experience - you hold early career experience in merchandising and you’re ready to take the next step in your career

• Analytical capability - you’re confident working with numerical data, with the ability to turn insights into meaningful actions

• Detail‑focused and organised - you work with accuracy and precision across reports, planning tools and stock data

• Commercial acumen - you demonstrate a high standard of commercial awareness, understanding how data informs decisions in a retail trading environment

• Multi‑channel retail experience - you’re familiar with multi-channel retail operations across both ecommerce and brick and mortar environments

• Clear communicator - you’re comfortable breaking down complex insights and presenting them effectively to stakeholders

• Collaborative team player - you thrive in a cross functional environment and work effectively to achieve shared goals
  
  

Why choose us

At Arsenal, we want everyone to feel a sense of trust and belonging, so we are proud of both our club values and also what we offer to our employees. As one of our Gunners, you will receive:

• An exciting reward and recognition scheme

• Generous holiday allowance which increases with your length of service

• Great internal learning and development programmes

• A flexible hybrid working model

• Priority access to apply for match tickets

• A competitive health and wellbeing benefits package

• A leading Employee Assistance Programme

• Great discounts with some of our Partners

• An opportunity to play a vital role in delivering our ED&I strategy by joining one of our Employee Networks

Discover why ‘Our Gunners’ are proud to be part of our team - view their stories here.

Arsenal for Everyone

Arsenal for Everyone is our commitment to promoting and embracing equality, diversity and inclusion, so that everyone connected to the club feels like they belong to the same Arsenal family. We believe that diversity of background, skills and experience drives our success on and off the pitch. 

Disability Confident Leader

We are a Disability Confident Leader. We actively welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you need disability-related adjustments to the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application.

If you are likely to meet the definition of being a ‘disabled person’ according to the Equality Act 2010, you may be eligible to apply for an interview via the Disability Confident Scheme - please indicate this in your application form below. The information you share with us about your health or disability will not be used in recruitment decisions.

Application Closing Date - Thursday 26th February 2026

Please note: we reserve the right to close the position early if application volumes are particularly high. We encourage you to get your application in sooner rather than later.

Updates on the status of your application will be sent via email, please routinely check your spam and junk folders, as occasionally emails sent via the Teamtailor platform will find themselves there.

Good luck!