Retail Field Merchandiser

We’re looking for a Merchandiser within our Commercial Team to join our team as we expand and grow our team as we incorporate strategic project work.

The purpose of the Merchandising function is to drive sales and reduce costs with a customer centric focus on availability - enabling the delivery of the right range, in the right space, for every product. Merchandisers are specifically responsible for creating, delivering and maintaining a portfolio of planograms that support commercial and corporate strategies - and therefore the project will require extensive knowledge of micro space planning, merchandising systems, and category review/range analytics.

Whilst working in the Merchandising team, your focus will be on supporting the project, providing initial support with range analysis through to the culmination of customer centric plans that deliver new ranges that support the Commercial strategy and enable ease of replenishment for our store colleagues.

This role will be on a fixed term contract for 18 months.

Working within existing processes that ensure planogram delivery best fit all facets required for optimum in-store execution.
Completing data analysis to allow proficient category support, insight and development that ensure optimum ranges are delivered to all stores.
3000 plans, across multiple trading areas.
Managing the several thousand plan to store links; Ensuring that all products adhere to agreed stocking criteria and plans meet all merchandising principles to allow ease of shop for customers, ease of replenishment for colleagues - and ensure availability at all times.

This role is based at our fantastic head office in Bradford. Boasting an on-site restaurant, coffee shop, convenience and sample store, prayer room, free parking and regular company-wide events and promotions. Ideally, applicants will live within a reasonable distance of our office.

We’ve built an incredibly diverse business, and we’re working hard to make sure we truly represent the communities we serve. Extensive and current knowledge of Retail industry.
Retail systems competence, including micro space planning software to allow planogram and range analysis.
Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google applications and report writing.
Ability to analyse complex qualitative and quantitative data.
Ability to monitor, assess and manage own and category performance.
Ability to manage projects, stakeholders and work to deadlines in a large organisation across various formats.
Experience of customer-centric planning and delivery.
At Morrisons, we're the single biggest food manufacturer in the UK, and the only retailer to operate our own processing sites. Which means we're not just responsible for keeping our shelves stocked - we need to stock our manufacturing sites, too.

As a true one-of-a-kind business, we curate, arrange and buy everything from raw materials like flour and meat to the products our customers pop in for every day. We look at product packaging and quality to help us decide where products will sit in our stores. And when you remember that each category is worth a percentage of our overall £12 billion turnover from supermarket sales alone, the impact of each buying team is huge.

We even have joint targets so that we're unified in our mission to serve our customers.

15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus 10% for two friends/family members
~ Annual bonus scheme
~ Generous holiday entitlement
~ Company pension contributions
~ Private healthcare
~ We’re the only UK retailer with our own manufacturing business spread across 18 sites, not to mention nearly 500 stores, we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part. So, whether you want to make the freshest food, sell it, or join us in our head office, we’d love to meet you…