Superdrug
Junior Merchandiser (6 Month FTC)
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Why Superdrug?
Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend-setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station, is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service, and fun.
Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.
Here's the exciting bit…a day includes:
- Contribute to the implementation of department and business strategies through category analysis and planning
- Tracking the sales, margins, and stock levels of your categories and producing regular reporting
- Collaborating with the wider merchandising team, supply chain, and commercial teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Planning the optimal range/assortment by store group, alongside the buying team and working with Visual Planners to bring these to life on planograms
- Preparing key performance reports and ad hoc analyses to aid decision-making
- Owning and managing the range review process ensuring the critical path is adhered to
- Setting customer-focused merchandising principles, ensuring fixture is right for the category & the business guidelines
- Analysing trials and initiatives to provide clear insights and proactively suggest next steps
- Undertaking various other tasks for the role, and where required, to support others within the merchandising team.
- Undertaking other business projects as and when required, liaising with departments including commercial, finance, data insights, marketing, supply chain, property, and store operations.
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This Job Is a Good Fit For You If
- You can work effectively and efficiently in an ever-changing environment
- You enjoy delving into performance and behaviours/insights to drive strategies and decisions
- You know you add value through collaborative working, and ensuring people feel engaged.
- You understand how important ‘right stock, right place, right time’ is to retail businesses
- You are adept at looking at the bigger picture
- You can easily adapt to new environments, and working with many different stakeholders
- You get satisfaction through realizing your strategies and seeing the results.
What You’ll Need To Succeed
- You will have experience in merchandising, inventory management, retail planning, or retail analytics.
- You could be an Assistant Merchandiser or Junior Merchandiser, or a Merchandise Assistant looking to take the next step in their career.
- You will demonstrate good attention to detail and data integrity
- You will have good verbal reasoning skills and the ability to understand and interpret the bigger picture as well as present to key stakeholders in the business.
- You will be numerate and analytical
- You will be positive and proactive, and use analytical skills to seek solutions
- You will have an aptitude to challenge the status quo, and figures that appear misleading
- You will be team-focused and be able to work collaboratively with other departments
- You will be customer-focused
- You will be confident with the Microsoft Office suite - in particular Excel; and demonstrate an aptitude for working with spreadsheets.
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Here's What’s In It For You
- 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
- 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
- 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
- Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern, and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
- Company pension matching and bonus
- We offer Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop, and Three UK
- We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
- Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
- Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay, and pregnancy loss and support
Come and be part of something special.
Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern, and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
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