Merchandising Co-Ordinator(6-9 Month Contract)

Sysco; Dublin; On-site; EUR 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Sysco Ireland is seeking a Merchandising Coordinator to support merchandising activities across Newcastle West, Dublin or Belfast. This role requires strong organization, analytical ability, and clear communication to drive projects and maintain client focus.

You will manage daily volume tracking, coordinate vendor communications, and assist category strategies while ensuring timely updates and accurate merchandising tasks. Weekend coverage is required, five days over seven.

Qualifications

• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage time effectively.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills with good attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Weekend flexibility to support project cutovers.
• MS Office skills including Excel to intermediate-advanced level.
• Experience with AX is advantageous.
• Flexible, innovative and creative in problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Merchandising representation in European projects.
• Track sales performance daily, weekly and monthly to identify trends.
• Maintain business trackers and run books to ensure timely task closure.
• Lead internal and vendor communications and respond to queries.
• Support other departments on merchandising activities as required.
• Coordinate and issue merchandising communications when needed.
• Liase with Category & Trading Managers on category strategies.

Skills

Strong organisational skills

Deadline-driven

Numerical and analytical skills

Interpersonal communication

Weekend flexibility

MS Office (Excel)

AX experience

Creative problem solving

Weekend work flexibility

Tools

AX

Job description

As the leading foodservice provider across the island of Ireland, Sysco’s success is driven by a team of passionate and dedicated individuals who go above and beyond to deliver every day.

We don’t just deliver food and drink to our customers. We deliver new thinking, technology, and talent to our industry. We deliver opportunities - to ourselves and to our colleagues ensuring that we can all thrive in work and beyond.

We are now looking for new talent to join us as we continue to grow, innovate, and deliver.

Merchandising Coordinator – Newcastle West, Dublin or Belfast

(This role works 5 days over 7 and will involve weekend work.)

We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Merchandising Coordinator – Newcastle West, Dublin or Belfast, a role which will play a key part in the overall growth of the organisation along with helping to maintain our core ethos here are Sysco – keeping the customer at the heart of everything we do.

The role requires a candidate who will: Play a key role across Merchandising activities and projects. This role requires a candidate who is organised, analytical, customer focused and has strong communications skills.

The role requires a candidate who will be:

• Analytical with excellent attention to detail


• Organised


• Excellent Communication Skills

If you are ready for a challenge, we want to hear from you.

Key Accountabilities:

• Merchandising representation in European projects


• Heavy involvement in all code changes ensuring all Merchandising responsibilities is completed accurately and on a timely basis. This role is integral in ensuring no impact or disruption to customers when changing codes.


• Responsible for tracking of sales performance on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to mitigate against potential commercial risk. This role will be responsible for using internal systems to track sales revenue, volume, margin along with customer churn and leakage identifying trends and summarizing findings.


• Maintenance of business trackers and run books to ensure each task is closed in a timely manner


• Lead role communicating internally and externally to vendors. Will be required to contact vendors on a regular basis, ensuring they remain informed on any communication while maintaining vendor responses and queries.


• Supporting other business departments as and when required on any merchandising activities.


• Coordinate and issue Merchandising business communications as and when required.


• Liase and support Category & Trading Managers on implementation of category strategies and day to day merchandising activities.


• Ongoing maintenance of all Vendor contacts information.


• Management of general merchandising queries & ad hoc administrative duties.

Requirements:

• Strong organisational skills


• Ability to work to tight deadlines.


• Strong numerical and analytical skills are required with good attention to detail.


• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.


• Flexibility to support over project weekend cut over activities


• Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Excel to intermediate-advanced level.


• Experience of AX advantageous.


• Flexible, innovative and creative in their attitudes to all issues and areas of the business.


• The ability to analyse and resolve problems effectively and efficiently.


• Flexibility to work weekends

Sysco Ireland Culture

• Customer Focus: We deeply understand our customers’ needs, continuously looking at ways to deliver real value.


• Building Relationships: We foster strong, effective relationships across teams, always working together. We embrace change and support each other through it.


• Clear Communication: We communicate clearly and effectively, ensuring our message resonates.


• A Passion for Food: We source and deliver food and drink that inspires excellence and creativity in kitchens for the most memorable dining experiences.

The accountabilities and requirements outlined in this job description are neither definitive nor restrictive and may change in detail from time-to-time to meet the changing needs of the business.

Sysco is an equal opportunity employer.