Assistant Merchandiser

7 months ago


Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom Tesco Full time

About the role
- We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for a full time ambitious and hard-working Assistant Merchandiser to join our dynamic Home team working on the Celebrations team (Gift-wrap) on a Parental leave contract. Tesco is a leading multinational retailer and as an Assistant Merchandiser at Tesco, you will play a huge role within the team. Working in the Merchandising department, you'll help support your Merchandising Planning Manager to ensure the best products arrive at the correct place and at the right time._
- If you have some strong merchandise assistant experience or are looking for a new Assistant Merchandiser role, this position could be for you_

You will be responsible for
- Build balanced ranges for our department that meet sales, stock and profit targets
- Contributes to strategy and trade meetings with information based on fact and intuition.
- Ensuring the MPR systems accurately reflect the range build for launch in line with critical path
- Supporting the department range launch critical path
- Feeding into the promotion and events trade plan (incl. managing nomination process) in line with budget.
- Updating and maintaining all ranging/ merchandising systems/ trackers
- Ensuring that our pricing is administered within agreed timescales, adhering to pricing policy
- Ad-hoc analysis, including lessons learnt, cost to serve, and pareto, giving recommendations for ways to improve category sales or margin as a result
- Identifying and managing exit of lines from the business including escalating impact on all KPI's
- Management of the departmental WSSI forecasting (at sub group level to small department level), highlighting risks and opportunities and managing KPI's Vs budget.
- Preparing Monday Trade Analysis reports and undertaking follow up actions
- Reviewing performance Vs. all KPI's highlighting risks, opportunities and proposing actions
- Working alongside Demand Planning to help resolve any supply chain/ replenishment issues

You will need
Skills in data analysis & numeracy

MS Office - in particular Excel

Great communication skills

**Teams you will work with**:
Working as an Assistant Merchandiser in Home, we collaborate with lots of teams including, Buying, Design, SRM, Demand Planning, Trade Planning, TBS, our Tesco Sourcing Colleagues as well as external suppliers

**People, Budgets and other Resources you will be responsible for**:
Department sales & margin

LI - EF1

LI - Hybrid

About us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

- Colleague bonus scheme
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
- A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here



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