Assistant Merchandiser
We are looking for an Assistant Merchandiser to join the Merchandising department at Hilmore House. The role's purpose is to assist the merchandiser in planning, purchasing, intake, and distribution of merchandise to maximize sales and margin for the department. You will develop effective working relationships with suppliers and internal colleagues. Ultimately, this will lead to you taking full responsibility and ownership for merchandising a designated area within the department.
As an Assistant Merchandiser, your role will involve:
- Developing positive working relationships with all suppliers and the Hong Kong office, and ensuring you are fully aware of all orders going through the system while working closely with the buying team.
- Communicating continuously with suppliers about the status of orders to ensure the critical path is accurate and up to date, and highlighting any issues to the Merchandiser or Senior Merchandiser.
- Assisting in the department strategy, using your understanding of merchandising figures to contribute and make suggestions.
- Preparing any requested reports for weekly trading and other meetings, ensuring they are accurate, comprehensive, and completed by set deadlines.
- Demonstrating an understanding of the principles of buying, production, supply chain, and imports.
- Assisting in building range plans and ensuring all updates are completed in a timely manner and correctly inputted.
- Achieving all KPI targets for General Merchandising against a balanced scorecard of customers, sales and profit, colleagues, and operations.
- Achieving sales and margin for General Merchandising to the agreed finance plan.
- Delivering stock packages for graded stores through critical path management.
- Working within stock targets by prioritizing stock intake.
- Ensuring maximum availability on "Never out of stock" lines.
- Being aware of the department's weekly and seasonal sales figures, stock figures, and targets.
- Reviewing weekly sales performance and stock volumes to identify risks or opportunities, and highlighting any issues to propose trading actions.
The ideal candidate will have:
- A clear understanding of how to serve customer needs and requirements.
- The ability to champion the customer and maintain a customer focus in daily routines.
- Sound commercial awareness.
- The ability to create environments where sharing ideas, issues, and concerns is the norm.
- The ability to champion pace, change, and simplicity.
- The ability to gain feedback from colleagues and customers.
- Analytical thinking skills, including the ability to manage multiple data sources and make appropriate recommendations for sales, markdown, and stock intake.
- Systems expertise to ensure speed and accuracy.
- Attention to detail.
- Strong communication and influencing skills.
- A commercial business qualification or relevant retail/merchandise experience.
- A passion for retailing and detailed analytical experience.
About The Team
Morrisons is the UK's single largest food manufacturer and the only retailer that operates its own processing sites. This means the company is responsible for stocking both its shelves and its manufacturing sites. As a unique business, Morrisons curates, arranges, and buys everything from raw materials like flour and meat to everyday products for customers. The company negotiates prices and ensures they can sell as much as possible. The teams also examine product packaging and quality to help decide where products will be placed in stores. The impact of each buying team is huge, as each category accounts for a percentage of the overall £12 billion turnover from supermarket sales alone. Teams work in embedded business units, where buyers sit with their supply chain, finance, and technical counterparts to make quick decisions and take action. The teams even have joint targets to unify their mission of serving customers.
About The Company
At Morrisons, we believe in doing things our own way. We work in partnership with our communities, colleagues, suppliers, and British farmers to provide customers with the freshest food at great value. Morrisons aims to offer more of what matters to its employees as well.
About us
In return for all your hard work, you will receive:
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15% discount in store from the day you join us
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Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member
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Career progression and development opportunities
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Generous holiday entitlement
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Market leading pension scheme and life assurance
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Healthcare benefits including Aviva Digital GP
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‘MyPerks’ giving you discount with over 850 retailers
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Free parking onsite
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Enhanced Family, Maternity and Paternity Leave
Alive with activity, our modern Head Office is home to our corporate teams that make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, Morrisons Daily and a subsidised restaurant. We are within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - and we even have free parking!
At our Head Office you will expect to find supplier showcases, charity fundraising and celebrations all year round for the events that mean the most to our colleagues.
There’s more to our business as it’s fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve got lots of fresh opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you!
At Morrisons, we’re proud to be building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We want every colleague to feel respected, supported and able to be themselves at work. Different voices, experiences and ways of thinking help us grow and improve and that’s good for our customers too.
We’re always looking for people from all walks of life to join us and bring their talents to our team. Together, we can build a workplace where everyone has the chance to thrive, make a difference and belong.
Reward & Benefits
We've highlighted below some of our standard Rewards & Benefits that our colleagues receive. Please note, some roles come with additional benefits such as bonus, company car allowance etc. you'll find further details where applicable in our adverts, or you can speak to someone in our resourcing team for more information.
Plan your journey
Hilmore House (Head Office), Bradford, United Kingdom, BD3 7DL
Learning and development is at the heart of our business
As you can imagine, Morrisons is a busy place to be. There’s lots going on - processes, changes, new initiatives, different ways of working. And that’s just on a Monday morning.
It means there’s a lot to learn. But learning isn’t just about understanding what’s involved in day-to-day workloads. It’s also about growing and developing in your career, too. That’s why we’ve made sure that learning and development is at the heart of our business. We’re here to make sure everyone has everything they need to be their best - and to go as far as they want.
Our DE&I workstreams
We're proud to have a diverse group of colleagues working here. We want everyone to feel valued in an environment where we promote respect, where they feel a sense of belonging, and feel celebrated as individuals.
These are the moments that matter to them - and they matter to us, too.
Everyone is welcome to get involved in our Ethnic Diversity, Ability, LGBTQ+, Women, and Family & Carers workstreams, too. They’re designed to help us better reflect our customers, colleagues, and communities so we can become an even more inclusive business.
As a business, we love bringing people together. And we think it’s one of the biggest reasons to be part of our team.
Our Process
We've outlined below what our typical process looks like, this can vary slightly depending upon the role or team you've applied for. Our goal is to provide a positive and accessible experience for all applicants, ensuring everyone has the support they need to showcase their best selves.
Our resourcing team are on hand to help with any questions about your application and you can reach them by e-mailing resourcing@morrisonsplc.co.uk.
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Find an opportunity that's right for you
Once you've found a role that's right for you, you can apply via this site. If it's your first time applying with us then we'll need all your essential information and we might ask you to upload your most recent CV. If you've applied for roles with us before then we should recognise you and you won't need to share these details again, unless something has changed that you need to update us on.
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Online Assessment (Customer Assistant roles)
After your application, we might send you an e-mail and ask you to complete an online assessment. This is typically a situation judgement test where we'll ask you ten questions with mutliple choice answers and takes around 10-15 minutes to complete. The questions will give you a feel for the types of scenarios you might encounter working in our stores - think customer first.
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Let's find out more
For some of our stores and site roles, if you've been successful with your application we might just e-mail and ask you to book a slot for your interview. For other roles our resourcing team will get in touch with you to find out a bit more about you and why you applied. They'll also answer any questions you might have about us and the role. After all, it's a two way process!
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Interview
Our interviews are typically face to face but can sometimes be virtual. Don't worry, we'll advise either way. Your interview can differ depending on the role or team. Part of the interview may include some competency questions against our Ways of Working (listed below).
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Final Stage
With some of our roles there might be a second interveiw. This tends to be for roles in our Head Office and some salaried positions across our stores and sites. As part of this second stage, we might ask you to complete a task, such as a SWOT analysis or something similar, and present it back during the interview. This helps us understand your approach and thinking about the role.
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Decision
Our resourcing team or the store or site you've applied to will be in touch with you as soon as they can to let you know the outcome. If you've been successful we'll share the details of our offer with you and follow up with everything you need on e-mail.
Ways of Working
Our Ways of Working are like a set of values that define our core beliefs, guide decision-making, and shape our culture and how we operate.
Customer First - I care about our customers and do everything I can to meet their needs
Teamwork - I always play my part in the team, and I recognise we go further together
Working Freely in a Framework - I’m trusted to make my own decisions and encouraged to improve things for customers and for us
Care and Respect - We care more and try harder; for each other, for everyone around Morrisons
Listen and Respond - I take the time to talk with and listen to colleagues and customers, and always do the right thing for the them
Grow Sales, Low Cost - I understand my part in the end-to-end process and look for ways to drive improvement
Life at Morrisons offers more than you imagine.
We’re a Yorkshire based food manufacturer and retailer, and our story began with a simple market stall in Bradford all the way back in 1899. Today, we’re still just as committed to delivering on our promise of 'freshness from farm to fork' for every customer. It’s why we’ve grown to become one of the UK’s leading supermarkets. And, with 90,000 colleagues, nearly 500 stores, and 11 million customers every week, there are now more reasons to join us than you can imagine.
Discover Head Office at Morrisons
Our stores aren’t the only place where the magic happens. You’ll find a proper buzz at Head Office in Bradford, too. This is where support for store colleagues begins, from those big board decisions on our business processes, right down to thinking up new ideas to help support our colleagues.
But what we love most about Head Office is that there are more functions than you probably imagine - from trading to marketing, finance to tech, and HR to property. And we all work together to make sure our stores and manufacturing & logistics sites have everything they need to succeed.
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