Branch Merchandising Assistant

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**Branch Merchandising Assistant (Outbound Supply Chain)**

**“Everything about Asda”**

We are a values-led organisation. As such we, encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

**“Everything you'll love ”**
- **Hybrid and flexible working** - everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda have it on point.
- **Discretionary bonus** - Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts.
- **Company matched pension** - Looking forward to the future.
- **25 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays** - Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off.
- **13 paydays a year** - who doesn't love an extra payday?
- **Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions** - Asda genuinely cares, so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us.
- **Discount off your shopping at Asda and George** - with extra discounts running throughout the year - really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year.
- **Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes** - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business. (Link to grad scheme on Asda page).
- **Free parking** - at both George and Asda House.

Plus much more

**_ “That's more like it”_**

**“Find your role”**

**About the role**

Looking for an opportunity that's fun, fast paced, customer focused, commercial with fantastic development opportunities? Then look no further Our Supply Chain teams are at the ‘heart' of our business and front and centre of all we do. By working collaboratively with our Merchandising and retail teams, they focus on delivering excellent availability for our customers and cost savings to the business. From the fast, reactive world of George supply right through to import planning and online supply there's so many areas of opportunity. A career in Supply isn't about ‘pressing buttons'; it's about driving innovation, delivering results and landing initiatives which impact the stores and customer in a positive way. Joining our supply chain is the chance to take ownership of your own category, to take control, to influence ways of working and see your results come to life each time you step into a store.

**Purpose**:
To develop and drive an Outbound Supply strategy that delivers great availability to stores, meeting customer and market requirements whilst delivering maximum profit and saving cost.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Deliver weekly allocation and replenishment in line with business priorities and customer demand.
- End to end accountability of your own departments.
- Work closely with Inbound Supply to ensure customer demand is met.
- Laser focus on retail availability and demand forecast planning to ensure key business priorities and key event targets are met.
- Stock Maintenance of old/markdown/end of life product.
- Awareness of business and team strategy and how you can play a part within it.
- Being proactive and supportive with store feedback, ensuring requirements are met.
- Engage with Merchandising and store visualisation teams to ensure consistent priorities are agreed.
- Maximise full price sales potential to minimise markdown risk.
- Support P&L by saving cost through continued focus and action.
- Communicate cross functionally to ensure consistent delivery.
- Being aware of ALS capacity challenges and how you can support.
- Demand and Forecast planning - ensuring accurate forecasting in line with business priorities and key events.
- Consistent review of supply chain and instock targets to ensure metrics are being met.
- Accountable for launch availability throughout the year as well as delivering on key promotional events at certain points of the year.
- Support supply coordinator with data analysis and strategic initiatives to get ahead of the curve.

**“Lets learn more about you”**

**Skills & Experience**
- Strong organisational and administration skills, with a ‘can do' approach.
- Passion for numbers, interpreting data and the ability to translate this into forward creative planning.
- Demonstrates a desire to develop their supply chain skills and gain an understanding of the wider distribution network.
- Intermediate Excel Knowledge, as well as experiencing using it, with the ability to analyse and interpret data and reports.
- Inquisitive mind-set and driven by continuous improvement.
- Self-motivated, able to work under pressure, quickly & effectively to agreed deadlines, both independently and as part of