Assistant Merchandiser - Cook (Food Preparation and Bake)
| Posting date: | 22 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | None, None |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/8568366/880980 |
Summary
About the role
We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for a full time ambitious and hard-working Assistant Merchandiser to join our dynamic Home team working on the Cook (Food Preparation & Bake) team. Tesco is a leading multinational retailer and as an Assistant Merchandiser at Tesco, you will play a huge role within the team. Working in the Merchandising department, you\'ll help support your Merchandising Planning Manager to ensure the best products arrive at the correct place and at the right time.
If you have some strong merchandise assistant experience or are looking for a new Assistant Merchandiser role, this position could be for you!
You will be responsible for
- Build balanced ranges for our department that meet sales, stock and profit targets
- Contributes to strategy and trade meetings with information based on fact and intuition.
- Ensuring the MPR systems accurately reflect the range build for launch in line with critical path
- Supporting the department range launch critical path
- Feeding into the promotion and events trade plan (incl. 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
- Ad-hoc analysis, including lessons learnt, cost to serve, and pareto, giving recommendations for ways to improve category sales or margin as a result
- Identifying and managing exit of lines from the business including escalating impact on all KPI\'s
- Management 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
- Working alongside Demand Planning to help resolve any supply chain/ replenishment issues
You will need
Skills in data analysis & numeracy
MS Office – in particular Excel
Great communication skills
Teams you will work with:
Working as an Assistant Merchandiser in Home, we collaborate with lots of teams including, Buying, Design, SRM, Demand Planning, Trade Planning, TBS, our Tesco Sourcing Colleagues as well as external suppliers
People, Budgets and other Resources you will be responsible for:
Department sales & margin
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What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:
- Colleague bonus scheme
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 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
- The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
- 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
- A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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