Head of Merchandising

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
• Car Cash Allowance
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
• 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 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave

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, please talk to the Hiring Manager about how they can support you.

We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for a Head of Merchandising to join our multifaceted Home & Clothing team (F&F) here at Tesco!

You'll play a crucial role within our clothing team, crafting our global ranges - UK CE ROI ensuring the achievement of important metrics such as Sales, Margin, and Stock. Collaboration with Buying, design, sourcing and central Merchandising teams is essential in this position.

You'll also be collaborating closely with senior partners within Home and Clothing and have strong supplier relationships. The position will be based at our Welwyn Garden City Pear office!

You will be responsible for

• Supporting the category strategy review process whilst signing off budgets for sales, stock, margin and markdown.
• Challenging the team to build a customer focused range whilst achieving the commercial ranging process.
• Supervising the ranging process (incl. range changes), safeguarding adherence to the critical path.
• Crafting and delivering the category trade and events plan (and associated sales, markdown, stock and margin targets), adapting the plan in response to market changes.
• Approving the final forecast and ordering decisions in line with stock and OTB targets.
• Agreeing the pricing strategy for the Category in line with the Head of Buying.
• Reviewing category availability & stock levels, collaborating with supply chain colleagues to champion improvements.
• Reviewing the category Weekly Sales and Stock Intake (WSSI), coordinating action to improve profitability of the category and reduce risks.
• Improving sales and margin densities across all store cascades and ensuring exit plans are in place and stock cleared in line with CAYG guidelines.
• Developing and leading a high performing team, giving them the opportunities to be their best.
• Forecasting and leading my budgets efficiently, always being cost conscious.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

You will need

• Commercial merchandising experience within global and multichannel.
• Category management (from strategy/planning, open to buy and exit management).
• Experience within WSSI management - Range and trade planning - Leading and developing teams.
• Influencing and stakeholder management experience.
• Range and trade planning experience.
• Proficiency within Data analysis and numeracy.

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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.