Assistant Category Merchandiser

Currys plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance related bonus

Competitive pension scheme

Product discounts on the latest tech

Wellbeing initiatives

Hybrid working – Waterloo Campus (We/0

Job summary

Currys plc in London is recruiting an Assistant Category Merchandiser to support the New & Growth Categories, including Health & Wellness, Hair & Beauty, and Sports Tech. You will work with Buying, Merchandising, Distribution and suppliers to optimise stock, drive sales and availability while defending margin.

The role is hybrid, based at the Waterloo Campus, with 2-4 in-person days per month and career development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience as an Assistant Merchandiser or similar role.
• Experience with merchandising and planning systems.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills to interpret data and drive performance.
• Confident communicator and stakeholder manager.
• Commercially aware with focus on customer experience.
• Proficient in MS Excel and MS Office.
• Experience with Power BI reporting.

Responsibilities

• Monitor category performance and drive sales, margin, stock and availability.
• Manage stock and supplier performance; execute purchase orders and intake plans.
• Provide commercial insight; identify risks and opportunities and resolve stock issues.
• Develop supplier relationships to ensure stock availability and manage deliveries.
• Deliver commercial processes; follow plans, critical paths and policies to support performance.

Skills

Analytical skills

Numerical skills

Excel

Power BI

Merchandising

Stakeholder management

Planning systems

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Assistant Category Merchandiser
London
Currys London Campus at Waterloo /Hybrid Working
Permanent
Full Time
Grade 3

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

As an Assistant Category Merchandiser within our Commercial function, you'll join the New & Growth Categories team, supporting exciting and fast-evolving areas of the business including Health & Wellness, Hair & Beauty, and Sports Tech. Working closely with the Category Merchandiser, you'll play a key role in driving category performance, helping to deliver sales, margin, stock and availability targets while ensuring customers can access the products they want, when they want them.

Collaborating with teams across Buying, Merchandising, Distribution, Planning and external suppliers, you'll support the management of stock, identify risks and opportunities, and help keep category performance on track. You'll also have the opportunity to work with some of the world's leading brands, as well as emerging names within these growing categories, helping to shape their success at Currys.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your merchandising career in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where you'll gain exposure to a broad range of commercial activities and play an important role in the continued growth of some of our most exciting categories.

Job description

Role overview

As part of this role, you'll be responsible for:

• Monitoring and supporting category performance, driving sales, margin, availability and stock health through effective planning and analysis, while identifying risks and opportunities to keep performance on track.
• Managing stock and supplier performance, ensuring purchase orders, intake plans and deliveries are executed effectively to maximise product availability for customers.
• Providing commercial and operational insight, identifying risks and opportunities, resolving stock issues, and working closely with Buying, Supply Chain and supplier partners to keep the category on track.
• Developing strong supplier relationships to ensure consistent stock availability, proactively managing deliveries and resolving supply issues to minimise disruption.
• Delivering commercial processes effectively, ensuring plans, critical paths and business policies are followed to support successful category performance and operational excellence.

You will need

• Experience as an Assistant Merchandiser, or in a role that has provided transferable skills relevant to merchandising.
• Experience with merchandising and planning systems.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and make recommendations that drive sales, profit and stock performance.
• Confident communicator and relationship builder, able to influence stakeholders and collaborate effectively across teams and supplier partners.
• Commercially aware, with a good understanding of customer needs and the ability to balance commercial performance with customer experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and the wider MS Office suite, with experience using data to support decision-making.
• Knowledge of reporting tools such as Power BI, with the ability to analyse and present insights to support category performance.

Benefits

We know our people are the secret to our success. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to reward great work. You’ll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including:

• Performance related bonus.
• Competitive pension scheme.
• Product discounts on the latest tech.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives.
• Hybrid working; our primary Currys Campus is at Waterloo (WeWork) with an expectation to meet in person 2-4 times per month.

Why join us

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email [e-mail] and we'll do our best to help.