Assistant Merchandise Planner - F&F - Central Commercial

Tesco; Digswell; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Tesco (Tesco Stores Limited) is seeking an Assistant Merchandise Planner to support budgets, forecasts, and trading performance across Clothing. You’ll work with regional and channel teams to align plans for strong commercial results.

You will partner with Product Merchandising, Trade Planning, and Finance, driving accurate planning processes and delivering insights to support growth. A merchandising background and strong Excel skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in retail or merchandising planning.
• Diligent and detail-oriented with strong analytical skills.
• Proven ability to communicate clearly and influence decisions.

Responsibilities

• Support the Merchandise Planning Manager with country budgets and forecasts.
• Assist with WSSI forecast reviews and in-depth analysis.
• Provide weekly trade commentary for leadership.
• Identify risks and opportunities in weekly trade by country and channel.
• Produce insights for country, divisional and attribute reviews.
• Support trade plan reviews and enable top-down and bottom-up reviews.
• Manage clothing country daily sales forecasts with commentary.

Skills

Organisational skills

Commercial awareness

Attention to detail

Excel skills

Financial acumen

Communication skills

Influencing skills

Relationship building

Merchandising background

Global strategy passion

Tools

Excel

Job description

As the Assistant Merchandise Planner you'll play a key role in supporting the delivery of budgets, forecasts and trading performance across the Clothing business. Working alongside a Merchandise Planning Manager, you'll help manage unique regional and channel requirements, ensuring plans are aligned to deliver strong commercial results.

This is a highly collaborative role, partnering closely with Product Merchandising, Trade Planning, Operations, Finance, Channel, Technology and Business Intelligence teams. Using your strong organisational skills, commercial awareness and attention to detail, you'll help drive accurate, responsive and efficient planning processes that support business performance and growth.

• Supporting (and deputising for) the Merchandise Planning Manager with Clothing country budgets, and the top down financial review forecasting on a periodic basis.
• Assist with the bottom up period WSSI forecast review process, with supporting analysis to support HOM and MPM periodic meetings
• Weekly trade commentary and supporting analysis for distribution to the leadership team and wider business
• Identification of risks & opportunities within weekly trade, focusing on key country / channel specifics.
• Producing specific analysis / insight for the commercial teams through country, divisional and attribute reviews
• Supporting in trade plan review and execution. Enabling top down and bottom-up reviews across product divisions, drilling down at country level to drive profit maximisation
• Management of Clothing country daily sales forecast, providing insight and commentary for leadership.
• Working with our Tools, Systems and Business Intelligence team to drive simplification throughout the Home and Clothing Business
• Assisting with Trade Planning Calendars, Promotional Activity and the Business Workplan- cascading this to all divisions
• A key link in the management of commercial and financial processes including close of half, end of year, recode processes in conjunction with product commercial teams
• A super user on all systems
• Assisting with analysing market trends, understand key competitors & external factors and update the team on changing conditions
• Appreciation and understanding of range and trade planning
• A track record of delivering work in an accurate and timely fashion
• The ability to analyse data, with good Excel skills, financial acumen
• Previous experience in retail, customer or commercially focused roles
• Strong communication skills & ability to build relationships across multi-function
• A proven communicator with good influencing skills on a daily basis
• Background in merchandising - Assistant Merchandiser experience required
• Passion for driving business growth & global strategy
• (within a commercial team is beneficial) minimum

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At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

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