Assistant Merchandiser

www.nationalmuseums.org.uk - Jobboard; London; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading cultural institution as an Assistant Merchandiser, responsible for optimizing retail stock and enhancing sales performance. This full-time role requires strong analytical skills and experience in merchandising. Enjoy a supportive work culture with diverse benefits.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

22 days annual leave plus bank holidays

40% discount in cafés

30% discount in shops

Interest-free loans for travel tickets

Gym or Leisure membership

Continuous performance management reviews

Qualifications

• Proven experience of merchandising across various product categories.
• Ability to build relationships with stakeholders and work independently.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for purchasing retail gift products to agreed budgets.
• Provide weekly reporting to support sales analysis and product performance.

Skills

Negotiation

Analytical Skills

Numerical Skills

Commercial Awareness

Tools

MS Excel

EPOS System

Job description

About us

Royal Museums Greenwich is a collection of diverse historical sites. The sites are the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and the Queen’s House. Each of these sites has a unique identity and a common purpose to serve our communities, through sharing our collections and expertise. We are a place to explore the sea, space, art and history, and our strategy ‘Charting Our Course’ puts people at the core of its success.

The Role

The Assistant Merchandiser is responsible for purchasing retail gift product to agreed budgets and weeks cover for all Royal Museums Greenwich shops, ensuring stock is optimised for business demands, especially for peak trading at all sites to maximise income. They will provide information and weekly reporting to support in sales analysis and product performance, as well as supporting in managing the retail EPOS system including day-to-day maintenance, product information, new users and reporting.

The successful candidate will have proven experience of merchandising, working with a broad range of product categories, and strong commercial awareness. They will have the ability to confidently negotiate, build positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, work on their own initiative as well as within a team, and strong analytical and numerical skills. Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and experience of using an EPOS system of product ordering and stock management is also essential for this role.

This is a full-time, fixed term contract for 12 months in Band 6 - Management and Competent Specialists. Core hours of work will be 36 per week, working Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, with an additional hour to be worked as agreed upon with management.

Salary: £29,400 per annum

We encourage you to read the full job description/person specification before applying for this role.

Interviews are scheduled to take place on Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th June.

Benefits

We offer a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, a generous pension scheme plus life cover, 22 days annual leave plus bank holidays, 40% discount in our cafés and 30% discount in our shops, a range of interest-free loans including: season/travel tickets, bike and bike equipment, Gym or Leisure membership plus individual learning; training opportunities and continuous performance management reviews to support personal and career development, NMDC reciprocal agreement for free admissions to other museums and galleries’ paid exhibitions, and an environment with flexible working options.

EDI

Diversity and inclusion are integral to our work at Royal Museums Greenwich, as we are a museum for everyone. We want to foster a spirit of inclusion, collaborative working, innovation, and valuing people as individuals whose lives have been shaped by different experiences. Therefore, we welcome applications from everyone.

We actively work with Disability Confident scheme and ask that you let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments you need or things you would like us to know during the interview process, which may include being provided the interview questions in advance, requiring a step free interview space, that you are eye-contact avoidant, or having the interview questions in a written format or additional time in timed tests, interviews or other assessment activities.

National Museum Directors' Council, Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG.