Assistant Merchandise Planner - Core Stationery - 7 month Fixed Term Contract
| Posting date: | 02 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2025 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/16617688/941192 |
Summary
About the role
We are on the lookout for an Assistant Merchandiser Planner to join our Core Stationary team on a 7 month Fixed Term Contract. You will work alongside the Merchandise Planning Manager to deliver and maximise the sales and profitability of the Core Stationery department. You will collaborate with the Buying team to build and deliver great ranges for customers.
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.
- Range Building.
- Data analysis and numeracy skills.
- MS Office (esp Excel) skills.
- Great communications skills.
- Data Analysis.
- Range and Trade Planning.
- Working as part of a team.
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What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
- 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 6 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 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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