Retail Merchandising Assistant

HOUSE OF COMMONS; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A distinctive retail organization in Greater London is seeking a Merchandising Assistant. This exciting role supports the Retail Merchandising Manager in ensuring smooth retail operations while contributing to a heritage retail offer. The position offers a hybrid working model and benefits including generous leave and a robust pension scheme. Ideal candidates will have strong customer service and organizational skills, with a proven background in administrative roles within retail.

Benefits

Generous annual leave starting at 30 days

Civil Service pension scheme with 27% employer contribution

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience of delivering excellent customer service to a broad and diverse customer base.
• Proven experience in an administrative/merchandising role, ideally within Retail.
• Comfortable working in high-pressure situations with efficient task management.

Responsibilities

• Support the Retail Merchandising Manager across a wide range of tasks.
• Contribute to a retail offer that represents UK Parliament heritage.
• Help ensure retail operations run smoothly.

Skills

Customer service

Organizational skills

Ability to work under pressure

Job description

What you'll be doing

Are you detail-focused, organised, and ready to grow your merchandising career in a truly distinctive setting? As a Merchandising Assistant at the House of Commons, you'll play an integral part in ensuring our retail operations run smoothly, supporting the Retail Merchandising Manager across a wide range of analytical, administrative, and product-related tasks. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a retail offer that represents the heritage and work of UK Parliament.

This role is offered on a hybrid working basis, with an expectation of you spending 40% of your time in the office.

Find out more about working at the House of Commons.

Why Join us?

In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including but not limited to:

• Generous annual leave starting at 30 days and increasing to 35 after one full working year.


• Enrolment in the excellent Civil Service pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%


• Flexible working options that help you find a balance including enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave, caring leave and alternative working patterns.

What we're looking for.

• Experience of delivering excellent customer service to a broad and diverse customer base while upholding the principles of diversity, equality, and inclusion.


• Proven experience in an administrative/merchandising role as part of a commercial team, ideally within Retail and/or the heritage or tourism sector.


• Comfortable working in high-pressure situations, with a record of efficiently managing multiple tasks and large workloads

Next Steps and Additional Information

• CV & Application - If you would like to apply for this role, please submit an application providing evidence against criteria 1-4 in the Job Description.

More information on the application process can be found here: Application process - UK Parliament.

Please note that most job offers will be made at the minimum of the salary range, other than in exceptional circumstances.

We may close the vacancy prior to the closing date stated due to a high volume of applications.

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