Merchandise Planner

Superdrug; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vibrant and innovative retailer as a Merchandise Planner, where your passion for beauty and health will thrive. In this dynamic role, you'll collaborate with buying teams to optimize stock decisions, ensuring the right products are available at the right time. With a focus on customer satisfaction and a commitment to teamwork, you'll help shape strategies that drive sales and enhance the shopping experience. Enjoy the benefits of hybrid working, generous holiday allowances, and a supportive environment that values your contributions. This is your chance to make a real impact in a forward-thinking company!

Benefits

33 days holiday rising to 38

30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products

Company pension matching

Wagestream access

Enhanced maternity/shared parental leave

Learning and Development programmes

Qualifications

• Experience in merchandising or demand planning is essential.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail are required.

Responsibilities

• Manage category stock budgets and optimize stock quality.
• Collaborate with buying teams for range planning.

Skills

Merchandising

Analytical Skills

Collaboration

Attention to Detail

Data Integrity

Communication

Education

Experience in Merchandising or Demand Planning

Numeracy Skills

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Direct message the job poster from Superdrug

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.

We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

Role Purpose:

To challenge and collaborate with the buying teams in making commercially-sound decisions relating to stock, that maximise sales, margin and income, whilst minimising stock risk.

To ensure that department, business and cross-functional strategies are explored and implemented through category analysis and planning

Here's the exciting bit…a day includes

Planning the optimal range/assortment by store group, alongside the buying team

Owning and managing the range review process ensuring the critical path is adhered to

Managing the category stock budgets, ensuring the quality of stock is constantly reviewed and optimised.

Effectively managing discontinued lines out of the business, minimising any margin impact

Helping ascertain and support the strategic direction for space and agreeing the associated budget impacts

Setting customer focused merchandising principles, ensuring fixture is right for the category & the business guidelines

Analysing trials and initiatives to provide clear insights and proactively suggest next steps

Undertaking various other tasks for the role, and where required, to support others within the merchandising team.

Undertaking other business projects as and when required, liaising with departments including commercial finance, data insights, marketing, supply chain, property and store operations

This job is a good fit for you if:

You can work effectively and efficiently in an ever-changing environment

You enjoy delving into performance and behaviours/insights to drive strategies and decisions

You know you add value through collaborative working, and ensuring people feel engaged.

You understand how important ‘right stock, right place, right time’ is to retail businesses

You are adept at looking at the bigger picture

You can easily adapt to new environments, and working with many different stakeholders

You get satisfaction through realising your strategies and seeing the results.

What you’ll need:

You will have experience in merchandising or comparable area (such as demand planning, category insight).

You will demonstrate good attention to detail and data integrity

You will have good verbal reasoning skills and the ability to understand and interpret the bigger picture as well as present to key stakeholders in the business.

You will be numerate and analytical

You will be positive and proactive, and use analytical skills to seek solutions

You will have an aptitude to challenge the status quo, and figures that appear misleading

You will be team focused and be able to work collaboratively with other departments

You will be customer focused

You will be confident with the Microsoft Office suite - in particular Excel; and demonstrate an aptitude for working with spreadsheets.

Here's what's in it for you

• 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
• 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
• 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
• Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
• Company pension matching and bonus
• We offer Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
• We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
• Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
• Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support

Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Product Management

• Industries

  Retail

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