Assistant Merchandiser for Books

As the Assistant Merchandiser for Books, you'll play a key role in supporting our dynamic Home team, working closely with the Merchandising Planning Manager to ensure the right products are in the right place at the right time. In this fast-paced and collaborative role, you'll help drive commercial performance, optimise stock availability and deliver a great shopping experience for our customers. You will be responsible for

• Building balanced ranges for our department that meet sales, stock and profit targets
• Contributing to strategy and trade meetings with information based on fact and intuition.
• Ensuring the MPR systems accurately reflect the range build for launch in line with critical path
• Supporting the department range launch critical path
• Feeding into the promotion and events trade plan (incl. managing nomination process) in line with budget.
• Updating and maintaining all ranging/ merchandising systems/ trackers
• Ensuring that our pricing is administered within agreed timescales, adhering to pricing policy
• Ad-hoc analysis, including lessons learnt, cost to serve, and pareto, giving recommendations for ways to improve category sales or margin as a result
• Identifying and managing exit of lines from the business including escalating impact on all KPI's
• Management of the departmental WSSI forecasting (at sub group level to small department level), highlighting risks and opportunities and managing KPI's Vs budget.
• Preparing Monday Trade Analysis reports and undertaking follow up actions
• Reviewing performance Vs. all KPI's highlighting risks, opportunities and proposing actions
• Working alongside Demand Planning to help resolve any supply chain/ replenishment issues
  
  Strong commercial and analytical skills with the ability to turn insights into action.
• Experience in forecasting, planning and managing KPIs.
• Knowledge of range planning, merchandising and promotional activity.
• Excellent organisation and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• A collaborative approach and confidence working across a wide range of stakeholders.
  
  Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.