Assistant Merchandiser

Morrisons

  • Bradford
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 27 days ago
We are looking for an Assistant Merchandiser to join the Merchandising department at Hilmore House. The role's purpose is to assist the merchandiser in planning, purchasing, intake, and distribution of merchandise to maximize sales and margin for the department. You will develop effective working relationships with suppliers and internal colleagues. Ultimately, this will lead to you taking full responsibility and ownership for merchandising a designated area within the department.As an Assistant Merchandiser, your role will involve:
  • Developing positive working relationships with all suppliers and the Hong Kong office, and ensuring you are fully aware of all orders going through the system while working closely with the buying team.
  • Communicating continuously with suppliers about the status of orders to ensure the critical path is accurate and up to date, and highlighting any issues to the Merchandiser or Senior Merchandiser.
  • Assisting in the department strategy, using your understanding of merchandising figures to contribute and make suggestions.
  • Preparing any requested reports for weekly trading and other meetings, ensuring they are accurate, comprehensive, and completed by set deadlines.
  • Demonstrating an understanding of the principles of buying, production, supply chain, and imports.
  • Assisting in building range plans and ensuring all updates are completed in a timely manner and correctly inputted.
  • Achieving all KPI targets for General Merchandising against a balanced scorecard of customers, sales and profit, colleagues, and operations.
  • Achieving sales and margin for General Merchandising to the agreed finance plan.
  • Delivering stock packages for graded stores through critical path management.
  • Working within stock targets by prioritizing stock intake.
  • Ensuring maximum availability on "Never out of stock" lines.
  • Being aware of the department's weekly and seasonal sales figures, stock figures, and targets.
  • Reviewing weekly sales performance and stock volumes to identify risks or opportunities, and highlighting any issues to propose trading actions.
The ideal candidate will have:
  • A clear understanding of how to serve customer needs and requirements.
  • The ability to champion the customer and maintain a customer focus in daily routines.
  • Sound commercial awareness.
  • The ability to create environments where sharing ideas, issues, and concerns is the norm.
  • The ability to champion pace, change, and simplicity.
  • The ability to gain feedback from colleagues and customers.
  • Analytical thinking skills, including the ability to manage multiple data sources and make appropriate recommendations for sales, markdown, and stock intake.
  • Systems expertise to ensure speed and accuracy.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Strong communication and influencing skills.
  • A commercial business qualification or relevant retail/merchandise experience.
  • A passion for retailing and detailed analytical experience.
About The TeamMorrisons is the UK's single largest food manufacturer and the only retailer that operates its own processing sites. This means the company is responsible for stocking both its shelves and its manufacturing sites. As a unique business, Morrisons curates, arranges, and buys everything from raw materials like flour and meat to everyday products for customers. The company negotiates prices and ensures they can sell as much as possible. The teams also examine product packaging and quality to help decide where products will be placed in stores. The impact of each buying team is huge, as each category accounts for a percentage of the overall £12 billion turnover from supermarket sales alone. Teams work in embedded business units, where buyers sit with their supply chain, finance, and technical counterparts to make quick decisions and take action. The teams even have joint targets to unify their mission of serving customers.About The CompanyAt Morrisons, we believe in doing things our own way. We work in partnership with our communities, colleagues, suppliers, and British farmers to provide customers with the freshest food at great value. Morrisons aims to offer more of what matters to its employees as well.About usIn return for all your hard work, you will receive:15% discount in store from the day you join usAdditional 10% discount card for a friend or family memberCareer progression and development opportunitiesGenerous holiday entitlementMarket leading pension scheme and life assuranceHealthcare benefits including Aviva Digital GP‘MyPerks’ giving you discount with over 850 retailersFree parking onsiteEnhanced Family, Maternity and Paternity LeaveAlive with activity, our modern Head Office is home to our corporate teams that make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, Morrisons Daily and a subsidised restaurant. We are within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - and we even have free parking!At our Head Office you will expect to find supplier showcases, charity fundraising and celebrations all year round for the events that mean the most to our colleagues.There’s more to our business as it’s fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve got lots of fresh opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you!At Morrisons, we’re proud to be building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We want every colleague to feel respected, supported and able to be themselves at work. Different voices, experiences and ways of thinking help us grow and improve and that’s good for our customers too.We’re always looking for people from all walks of life to join us and bring their talents to our team. Together, we can build a workplace where everyone has the chance to thrive, make a difference and belong.

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