Assistant Merchandiser - Paperchase - 12 Month Parental Leave Cover
| Posting date: | 20 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 01 December 2025 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/12955979/963759 |
Summary
About the role
We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for an ambitious, experienced and hard-working Assistant Merchandiser on a Maternity leave cover, to oversee parts of Paperchase range and event categories. Tesco is a leading multinational retailer and as an Assistant Merchandiser at Tesco, you will play a huge role within the team.
Working alongside an Assistant Buyer, you will be responsible for ensuring we plan and deliver the most commercial and profitable ranges to meet our Customer\'s needs.
Please note: If you are applying for a Secondment opportunity, your benefits, including bonus, will continue to align to your current role, for further information please refer to the Secondment policy.
You will be responsible for
- Building balanced ranges for our department that meet sales, stock and profit targets
- Contributing 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
Operational skills relevant for this job:
- Analysis and report preparation skills
- Data analysis and numeracy skills
- MS Office (esp Excel)
- Communications
Experience relevant for this job:
- Merchandising experience
- Producing and analysing reports
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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