Retail Merchandiser

Malvern Hills; Worcester; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading media company is seeking a Part Time Retail Merchandiser for maternity cover. The role involves visiting retail outlets, ensuring newspapers are displayed effectively, and engaging with customers. Ideal candidates will have merchandising experience and a positive attitude. A driving license is preferred, with pool vehicles available for store visits.

Benefits

25 days' holiday pro rata

Company pension scheme

Newsquest Rewards Platform

Qualifications

• Experience in merchandising and customer service required.

Responsibilities

• Visiting retail outlets to ensure newspapers are well-positioned.
• Running promotions in retail stores.
• Responding to remote briefs and following guidelines.

Skills

Customer Service

Merchandising

Computer Literacy

Positive Attitude

Job description

Part Time Retail Merchandiser (Maternity Cover)

28 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

Newsquest Media Group is looking for a skilled Retail Merchandiser to join the Midlands team and play a crucial role in its newspaper sales activity.

Key Responsibilities

The job itself will mostly involve visiting retail outlets covering Worcester, Gloucester and surrounding towns, ensuring our newspapers are in the best position, increasing point of sale and running promotions in retail stores, in a nutshell, making sure everything is looking good, and customers can see the local newspaper in their local store.

If you’ve got experience in merchandising and customer service, we'd love to hear from you.

You will need to know your way around a laptop, for things like receiving briefs and uploading pictures, but none of it is complicated.

Ideally, you will have a full driving licence and use of your car (insured for business use), however, we can also provide a pool vehicle for store visits.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Be friendly and forward-facing – an ambassador for the company and our newspaper brands
• Be able to respond to a remote brief and follow the straightforward guidelines
• Have a positive attitude and approach – it’s all about enjoying the role
• Computer literate
• Full driving licence and use of your car (insured for business use).

Job Benefits

The role offers a salary of £17,850.56 per annum (£12.26 per hour), 25 days' holiday pro rata and a company pension scheme, as well as a suite of perks and benefits as part of our Newsquest Rewards Platform.

About Newsquest Media Group

We are a media company with a difference. We are committed to bringing a voice to your region by investing in a passionate team of journalists who proudly serve their communities by sharing authoritative news that readers trust. Our sales teams provide local businesses with highly responsive digital advertising and marketing solutions.

We are one of the largest regional news publishers in the UK and have a portfolio of more than 250+ local news brands and magazines online and in print. With an online audience of 41 million users a month and 7 million readers a week in print, our content is read by a substantial proportion of the UK population.

In addition to our local news brands, we own a number of digital pure play and specialist media businesses such as s1jobs and s1homes, Exchange & Mart, and Newsquest Specialist Media. We also own LOCALiQ, an award-winning digital marketing agency that specialises in driving more leads, increasing online growth and generating return on marketing investment on behalf of thousands of UK SMBs.