Assistant Merchandiser - Garden & DIY

Retail; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Pension scheme

Life cover

Performance bonus up to 5%

Annual leave

Job summary

Argos is seeking an Assistant Merchandiser to support delivering customer-focused product ranges and achieve sales and stock targets. You will review weekly performance, forecast at category/SKU level, and coordinate initial allocations with the replenishment team.

You will work in a Coventry hybrid setup, using Excel to analyse trends and optimise availability, margins and stock, while ensuring data integrity and sustainability compliance.

Qualifications

• Commercial background in general merchandise.
• Experience in an Assistant Merchandiser or Merchandise Admin role.
• Understanding of allocation and stock management and forecasting.
• Strong planning and prioritisation skills.
• Highly numerate and analytical.
• Ability to work within tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of customer-focused product ranges to achieve sales, profit, margin and stock targets.
• Review weekly trading performance, identify opportunities and issues, and provide analysis.
• Own and manage category and SKU level forecasts to optimise sales, stock, margin and availability.
• Collaborate with the A&R replenishment assistant to plan initial allocations and launch builds to meet stock and availability targets.
• Maintain data integrity and ensure compliance with legal and sustainability requirements.

Skills

Commercial background

Allocation & stock forecasting

Planning & prioritisation

Numerate & analytical

Deadline-driven

Tools

Excel

Job description

Why join us

Joining our Merchandising team at Argos offers an exciting opportunity to excel in your career with a renowned brand. As an Assistant Merchandiser, you will be part of a dynamic team that strives to deliver customer-focused product ranges and achieve sales, profit, margin, and stock targets. With a focus on trend analysis and merchandising systems, you will play a crucial role in ensuring we have the right products to meet our customers' needs. Whether you already have experience in merchandising or are a graduate in a relevant field, we provide a supportive environment where you can develop your skills and progress. With a strong emphasis on work-life balance and a range of comprehensive benefits, joining us means being part of a team that values your contribution and provides opportunities for growth and fulfillment.

What you'll do

Joining our Merchandising team as an Assistant Merchandiser, you will play a vital role in supporting the delivery of customer-focused product ranges to achieve sales, profit, margin, and stock targets. With a keen eye for trend analysis, you will ensure that our product offering meets customer demands and expectations. In this role, you will review weekly trading performance, identify opportunities and issues, and provide relevant analysis. You will own and manage category and SKU level forecasts to optimise sales, stock holding, margin, and availability. Collaborating with the A&R replenishment assistant, you will plan initial allocations and launch builds to meet stock and availability targets. Your strong analytical and numerical skills, coupled with proficiency in using merchandising systems, will enable you to drive efficiency and maximise availability. Additionally, you will be responsible for order management, maintaining data integrity, and ensuring compliance with legal and sustainability requirements. With your proactive and positive approach, you will build relationships with stakeholders and contribute to the success of our team.

Who you are

As an Assistant Merchandiser for our Merchandising team, you are a driven and passionate professional who thrives in a fast-paced retail environment. With previous experience in an Assistant Merchandiser or Merchandise Admin position, or a relevant field graduate, you have a solid understanding of allocation and stock management. Your strong analytical and numerical skills, coupled with your proficiency in Excel, enable you to review trading performance, forecast sales, and optimise stock availability to achieve sales, profit, margin, and stock targets. With excellent organisational ability and attention to detail, you ensure the timely delivery of stock, manage order management processes, and maintain high levels of data integrity. Your proactive approach, willingness to learn new systems, and ability to build positive relationships with stakeholders make you a valuable asset to our team as we strive to deliver excellent customer-focused product ranges.

Essential Criteria

• Commercial background in a general merchandise area
• Previous experience in an Assistant Merchandiser or Merchandise Admin role
• Understanding of allocation and stock management and forecasting
• Strong planning and prioritisation skills,
• Highly numerate and analytical
• Ability to work within tight deadlines

Location:Coventry SSC and Home (hybrid)

At Argos, we’re a digital-led UK retailer that keeps pushing boundaries to meet every generation with what they want, how and when they want it. As a market leader in general merchandise, serving millions of customers through our website, app, same-day delivery and Click & Collect services, we offer real opportunities to learn, grow and shape your career. With roles spanning Commercial, Buying, Merchandising, Design and Supply Chain, through to Digital, Operations, Customer Experience, Marketing, and People and Transformation , you will work with brilliant colleagues and directly shape how we serve our customers every day. From enabling inspiring choice across our owned brands, including Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, alongside the world’s biggest brands like Apple, Lego, Xbox and Samsung, to making shopping effortlessly convenient, championing trusted value and accelerating our strategy - Argos is an exciting place to build your future.We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so youll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, theres always the chance to try something new-whether thats as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, well also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsburys every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform.Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks pay for paternity leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.