Senior Merchandiser- Household Electricals

**Senior Merchandiser
- Household Electricals**
- 2200069S)

**Senior Merchandiser**

We have an exciting new opportunity to join our **Household Electricals team** as a** Senior Merchandiser **covering **Major Domestic Appliances (MDA)**

We absolutely see the value in allowing our colleagues to work flexibly and that’s why our ways of working policy allows you to maintain a great work/life balance and gives you the opportunity to make your hours work for you, with plenty of opportunity to work from home.

You’ll create and execute a customer facing, multi-channel merchandising strategy for furniture, to deliver profitable growth in line with the commercial strategy. You will need to be able to think on your feet and make decisions at pace to ensure delivery against key objectives.

As well as proven merchandising technical skills, you will also be able to lead and motivate a high performing team and role model values to support the culture. You will act as a coach, managing, motivating and developing the Merchandising team to provide a pipeline of future talent.

**As a Senior Merchandiser you’ll**:

- Create and implement a customer driven category vision in line with the commercial strategy agreed with senior stakeholders with clearly defined and measurable initiatives.
- Use analysis alongside knowledge of markets, customer profiles and suppliers to develop the category range framework
- Devise the multi-channel budgets to ensure that the building blocks are in place to achieve the category strategy
- Ensure category frameworks relating to space, options, architecture and buy plans align to the overall operating model and strategic emphasis of Brands that Deliver.
- Conduct periodic reviews of performance, understanding how this may impact future performance and reflect risks and opportunities through the CRM process
- You will lead the weekly trade reviews and PIR, ensuring cross functional teams are clear on priority actions and lessons learnt.
- You’ll be responsible for stock: challenging divisional / departmental WSSI planning, OTB management process, purchase orders, promotional stock planning, markdown plan, clearance, total / DC & store stock levels, DD store stock levels, replenishment & ordering parameters to deliver depot/supplier service targets, manage tolerance on stock commitments, availability, & reviewing forecasts
- Working with the Allocation & Replenishment team, review channel / category level forecasts to understand alignment to corporate budgeting, planning and replenishment processes identifying and taking corrective action with respective teams.
- Develop and implement joint business plans with suppliers in line with department strategy. Have a clear plan around supplier classification and set specific performance targets with regular measurement and review.
- Ensure a great customer experience through delivery of merchandising milestones within the critical path, ensuring any issues are resolved through liaising with suppliers and stakeholders.

**Our Merchandising Team would love to see**:

- Demonstrate commercial and financial awareness
- Proven track record & recent comparable experience in a merchandising role including multi-channel experience
- Demonstrate the delivery of results as an individual and within a team
- Ability to challenge & work under pressure in a fast-moving dynamic retail environment
- Product, Market knowledge & Customer focus
- Robust commercial, analytical, problem solving & presentation skills
- Strong communicator & networker with the confidence to influence & engage at all levels
- Experience of developing high performing teams and able to lead a team through ambiguity in a constantly changing environment

**Why Sainsbury’s?**

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

**Primary Location**: GB-GB-Milton Keynes

**Work Locations**: Argos - Avebury and Home Sainsbury's Argos 489-499 Avebury BoulevardSaxon Gate West Milton Keynes MK9 2NW

**Job**: Merchandising

**Schedule**: Full-time

**Advertised Salary** Competitive