Merchandising Specialist - Promotions and Seasonal

Morrisons; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK food retailer is seeking a Merchandising Specialist to join their team. This role involves overseeing the delivery of merchandising plans, conducting data analysis, and managing workflows within a hybrid work environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of the retail industry, strong micro space planning skills, and effective communication abilities to drive collaboration amongst various departments. Competitive perks include an annual bonus, generous holiday entitlement, and a colleague discount.

Benefits

15% colleague discount

Annual bonus scheme

Generous holiday entitlement

Company pension contributions

Private healthcare

Perks with over 850 retailers

Qualifications

• Experience of micro space planning and merchandising systems.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to prioritize workload in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage planogram delivery for optimum in-store execution.
• Complete data analysis for category support.
• Ensure all deliverables meet deadlines.

Skills

Micro space planning

Retail systems competence

Data analysis

Communication skills

Project management

Tools

Microsoft Office

Google applications

Micro space planning software

Job description

We’re looking for a Merchandising Specialist to join our Merchandising team. The Merchandising team sit within our Commercial Department and are pivotal to the deployment of our Commercial strategy, working collaboratively alongside other stakeholders such as Supply Chain, Trade Planning, Format and Marketing.

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.

Candidates should have experience of micro space planning, merchandising systems, and category review/range analytics. We work in a fast paced environment , therefore the ability to prioritise as well as adapt to change are key attributes for this role. Candidates should have strong communication skills both written and verbal, be able to present information confidently, influencing stakeholders where required to achieve optimum outcomes. You will drive your own workload, maintaining adherence to critical paths and ensuring all activity is delivered on time to a high standard for our stores and customers.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• 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 where you will work a hybrid working pattern, with the expectation that you will be on-site 3 days a week. Boasting an on-site restaurant, coffee shop, convenience and sample store, prayer room, free parking and regular company-wide events and promotions. Ideally, applicants will live within a reasonable distance of our office.

About you

We’ve built an incredibly diverse business, and we’re working hard to make sure we truly represent the communities we serve. One of the best things about working with so many different people is having the opportunity to listen, learn and connect with lots of different views, perspectives and beliefs. For this role, we’re looking for someone who has:

• Extensive and current knowledge of the 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

About us

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.

As a true one‑of‑a‑kind business, we curate, arrange and buy everything from raw materials like flour and meat to the products our customers pop in for every day. 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 £12billion turnover from supermarket sales alone, the impact of each buying team is huge.

We work in embedded business teams, so our merchandisers sit with their Buyers, supply chain, finance and technical counterparts, working alongside each other to make decisions and take action quickly. We even have joint targets so that we're unified in our mission to serve our customers.

About The Company

• 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

We're Foodmakers and Shopkeepers and together, we make Morrisons. We’re the only UK retailer with our own manufacturing business spread across 18 sites, not to mention nearly 500 stores, we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part. So, whether you want to make the freshest food, sell it, or join us in our head office, we’d love to meet you…