Marks & Spencer
Asst Merchandiser Advanced Home
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About M&S
We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever-evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever, and however they want to shop with us.
Benefits
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special:
- After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days.
- Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
- A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
- A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximize your financial and personal wellbeing.
- Industry-leading parental, adoption, and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
- Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
- A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
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Role Description
As the Assistant Merchandiser Advanced on Kitchen's in our Homewear team, you will take full ownership for budgeting, promotional and clearance markdown, in-season trading, and exit decisions, and intake and volume plan. You will be responsible for delivering excellent customer cookware and dinnerware ranges from planning through to execution. We are looking for someone who is organized and commercially minded with the confidence to manage stakeholder relationships, influence decisions, and present insights to senior leaders. You will need to balance multiple priorities while ensuring every detail is delivered right the first time.
It is a great opportunity for someone with strong potential who is ready to take the next step in their merchandising career and work towards a Junior Merchandiser position in the future. Someone who is excited to own the range, influence stakeholders, and deliver results.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage ongoing stock planning
- Provide reporting on supplier performance against KPIs
- Manage promotional and clearance markdown
- Manage in-season and exit trading
- Coordinate stock allocation to stores
Skills and Experience
Your skills and experience will include:
- Working to at least Assistant Merchandiser level at a major retailer
- Passionate about M&S and the womenswear product range - confident initiating trading actions
- Technical knowledge of the end-to-end buy-to-store process
- Experience of using the relevant IT support systems
- Strong numerical, analytical, and interpretive skills
- Ability to initiate and build strong relationships with Design, Buying, and Technology
- Strong communication and influencing skills
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Inclusion and Diversity
M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That's why we're revolutionizing how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organization, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.
We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity, and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk about flexible working.
If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.
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