Merchandise Admin Assistant - Babywear

Sainsbury's; Coventry; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Coventry is looking for a Merchandise Admin Assistant to provide essential support to the Merchandising team. You will manage product data, maintain records, and assist in stock management while contributing to weekly trade meetings. Ideal candidates will have strong attention to detail, proficiency in Microsoft Excel, and good communication skills, as well as a willingness to learn and grow in a collaborative environment. This role offers a range of benefits including staff discounts and performance-related bonuses.

Benefits

Colleague discount up to 15%

Pensions scheme

Performance-related bonus up to 5%

Cycle to work scheme

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Basic understanding of merchandising principles and retail operations.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Willingness to learn and grow within the role.

Responsibilities

• Support the Merchandiser and team in managing product data.
• Prepare reports and analysis to support trading decisions.
• Track deliveries and resolve queries with suppliers.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Microsoft Excel

Teamwork

Multi-tasking

Job description

Merchandise Admin Assistant

As a Merchandise Admin Assistant, you’ll provide essential support to the Merchandising team, helping to deliver customer-focused product ranges that meet sales, margin, and stock targets. With strong organisational skills and attention to detail, you’ll ensure smooth operations and contribute to the success of your category. This is a great opportunity to build your merchandising career in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

What You’ll Do

You’ll support the Merchandiser and wider team in managing product data, maintaining accurate records, and ensuring timely stock availability. You’ll help prepare reports and analysis to support trading decisions and monitor performance across categories.

You’ll work closely with suppliers and internal teams to track deliveries, resolve queries, and maintain high standards of data integrity. You’ll also assist with order processing, allocations, and intake management, ensuring products are available to meet customer demand.

You’ll contribute to weekly trade meetings, highlight risks and opportunities, and support the team in achieving key milestones within the critical path. You’ll play a key role in keeping systems updated and providing excellent service to store colleagues.

Essential Criteria

• A basic understanding of merchandising principles and retail operations.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy in data handling.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise effectively.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other relevant systems.
• A proactive and collaborative approach to teamwork.
• Willingness to learn and grow within the role.

Qualifications

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s 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, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 up to an additional week's 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, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well as 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).

Responsibilities

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Here, everything in our Sainsbury’s stores starts out in Sainsbury’s Commercial. Whether it’s the product, proposition, packaging or price, or the fact that something tastes great, our team is responsible for all food, non- food and Clothing items available in Sainsbury’s stores, digitally and on demand. You’ll discover it’s incredibly fast-paced. People here are in it together and not afraid to take risks. They’re enthusiastic too, and their amazing leadership team is right behind them. The knowledge and experience you gain here could set you up for career moves anywhere else in the business. So, if you’re passionate about your products and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.