George Home Bedding Merchandiser

**Job Title**: George Home Bedding Merchandiser
***Location**: Asda House
***Employment Type**: Full time
***Contract Type**: Permanent
***Hours Per Week**: 37.5
***Salary**:
Competitive salary plus benefits.

**Category**: Buying
***Closing Date**: 11 May 2025

This is an exciting role working within the George Home Textiles team. You will be responsible for the delivering the Filled bedding offer, this is a key category within the General Merchandise offer & features heavily within promotional activity.

Maximising sales and profit is key, whilst ensuring availability and customer choice at the same time. This role is very fast paced, high profile and a great development opportunity to work across various stakeholders. You need to act fast and react accordingly to manage performance across multiple fixed buys.

**The ins and outs**
- Working directly with Buyer to set the category strategy.
- Delivering the business plan - working on longer term strategy and shorter-term proactive sales driving activity.
- Driving the business to maximize profit in-season.
- Developing strong relationships with suppliers.
- Managing multiple stakeholders across the business to ensure we hold everyone accountable for the delivery of the crit path
- Managing multiple event critical paths to ensure seamless launch of activity
- Ownership of category P&L to include accurate forecasting of sales, stock turn, markdown and costs, with a view to achieve maximum profit.
- Analysis of sales data to provide recommendations for range control, budgeting & selection for future seasons.
- Collaboration with supply colleagues to ensure strong inventory management.
- Working closely with the buying team to further understand our customer needs and competitor activity
- This is a fast-paced role, and the ability to switch between longer term strategy and immediate trading priorities is key.
- This role includes multiple key trading moments where you will be required to communicate to the broader business and manage expectations around performance.

**Let's find out about you?**
- Experience in a similar merchandising environment
- Ability to thrive in a demanding, fast-paced environment, preferably retail
- Enthusiasm to take responsibility and progress in your career
- Ability to work independently and move your areas of responsibility forward
- Strong level of numeracy with an expert level of excel
- Personal skills to work with people at all levels - not just in our business, but also beyond it
- Flair for solving problems and making decisions
- Ability to work independently
- Resilience

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**Everything you'll love**

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- 15% colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks - helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves