Merchandiser

Morrisons; Devon and Torbay; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK food retailer is looking for a Merchandiser within their Commercial Team to contribute to strategic projects aimed at driving sales and optimizing costs. The role involves creating and maintaining planograms to support commercial strategies, requiring extensive knowledge in retail merchandising and data analysis. Ideal candidates will have strong competencies in retail systems, Microsoft Office, and leadership skills. Benefits include employee discounts, a generous holiday entitlement, and a company pension scheme.

Benefits

15% colleague discount

Annual bonus scheme

Generous holiday entitlement

Company pension contributions

Private healthcare

Perks with over 850 retailers

Qualifications

• Extensive and current knowledge of the retail industry.
• Competence in retail systems, including planogram software.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google applications.

Responsibilities

• Deliver planogram to optimize in-store execution.
• Conduct data analysis for category support.
• Oversee a planogram portfolio of approximately 3000 plans.

Skills

Retail industry knowledge

Data analysis

Microsoft Office

Google applications

Project management

Category understanding

Leadership ability

Merchandising practices

Tools

Micro space planning software

Job description

We're looking for a Merchandiser within our Commercial Team to join our team as we expand and grow our team as we incorporate strategic project work. The purpose of the Merchandising function is to drive sales and reduce costs with a customer centric focus on availability - enabling the delivery of the right range, in the right space, for every product. Merchandisers are specifically responsible for creating, delivering and maintaining a portfolio of planograms that support commercial and corporate strategies - and therefore the project will require extensive knowledge of micro space planning, merchandising systems, and category review/range analytics. Whilst working in the Merchandising team, your focus will be on supporting the project, providing initial support with range analysis through to the culmination of customer centric plans that deliver new ranges that support the Commercial strategy and enable ease of replenishment for our store colleagues. This role will be on a fixed term contract for 18 months.

Responsibilities

• Working within existing processes that ensure planogram delivery best fit all facets required for optimum in‑store execution.
• Completing data analysis to allow proficient category support, insight and development that ensure optimum ranges are delivered to all stores.
• Ensuring associated deliverables are provided as and when expected.
• With support, but also through autonomous working, ensuring competence on new systems and efficient ways of working.
• Overseeing a planogram portfolio of c.3000 plans, across multiple trading areas.
• Managing the several thousand plan to store links through utilisation of existing merchandising systems – all with complete accuracy.
• Ensuring that all products adhere to agreed stocking criteria and plans meet all merchandising principles to allow ease of shop for customers, ease of replenishment for colleagues – and ensure availability at all times.

This role is based at our fantastic head office in Bradford. Boasting an on‑site restaurant, coffee shop, convenience and sample store, prayer room, free parking and regular company‑wide events and promotions.

Qualifications

• Extensive and current knowledge of Retail industry.
• Retail systems competence, including micro space planning software to allow planogram and range analysis.
• Broad and varied category understanding, with an aptitude to apply knowledge to specific areas to allow a detailed approach.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google applications and report writing.
• Ability to analyse complex qualitative and quantitative data.
• Ability to motivate individuals and lead through change.
• Ability to monitor, assess and manage own and category performance.
• Ability to manage projects, stakeholders and work to deadlines in a large organisation across various formats.
• Record of merchandising practices including category reviews.
• Experience of customer‑centric planning and delivery.
• Record of managing costs and working to a budget.
• Experience of managing macro and micro space changes in a large organisation.

Benefits

• 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus 10% for two friends/family members.
• Annual bonus scheme.
• Generous holiday entitlement.
• Company pension contributions.
• Private healthcare.
• Perks with over 850 retailers.

About the Company

At Morrisons, we're the single biggest food manufacturer in the UK, and the only retailer to operate our own processing sites. Which means we're not just responsible for keeping our shelves stocked – we need to stock our manufacturing sites, too. We curate, arrange and buy everything from raw materials like flour and meat to the products our customers pop in for everyday. We negotiate prices and make sure we’re able to sell as much as we can. We look at product packaging and quality to help us decide where products will sit in our stores. And when you remember that each category is worth a percentage of our overall £12 billion turnover from supermarket sales alone, the impact of each buying team is huge.