Assistant Merchandiser - Electrical Accessories - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• 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
• 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

About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for ambitious and hard-working Assistant Merchandiser to join our Electrical Accessories Home team here at Tesco. Tesco is a leading multinational retailer and as an Assistant Merchandiser at Tesco, you will play a huge role within the team. Working in our Merchandising department, you'll help support your Merchandising Planning Manager to ensure products arrive at the correct place and at the right time.

Please note, this is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.

You will be responsible for

• Assisting in the departmental range building process (including collating and analysing data for strategy packs and range sign offs) to deliver sales, stock and profit targets.
• Contribute to strategy and trade meetings with information based on fact and intuition.
• Ensuring the CRST systems accurately reflect the range build for launch in line with critical path.
• Supporting the department range launch critical path (including post launch reviews).
• Feeding into the promotion and events trade plan (including 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.
• Identifying and managing exit of lines from the business including escalating impact on all KPI's.
• Realising and creating awareness 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.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

You will need

• Report preparation experience
• Data analysis and numeracy skills
• MS Office (esp Excel) skills
• Great communications skills

Teams you will work with:

• Merchandise Planning Managers
• Customer Proposition Analysts
• Assistant Buyers
• Finance Manager UK 
• SRD team

People Budgets and other Resources you'll be responsible for:

• Trade plan performance Vs forecast
• Sales/Profit/Stock for relevant area

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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.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. 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.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.