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Assistant Merchandiser Nutmeg

We are looking for an Assistant Merchandiser to join the team for Nutmeg based from our head office in Coalville (Leicestershire) to assist the merchandiser in the planning, purchasing, intake and distribution of merchandise to maximise sales and margin for the department. Developing effective working relationships with both suppliers and internal colleagues. Ultimately this will lead you to taking full responsibility and ownership for merchandising a designated area within the department you are working in.

What will I do as an Assistant Merchandiser at Nutmeg?

  • Develop positive working relationships with all suppliers, ensuring fully conversant with all orders passing through the system working closely with the buying team

  • Continually communicate with suppliers about the status of orders to help to ensure the critical path is kept up to date and accurate, highlighting any issues to the Merchandiser/Senior Merchandiser

  • Assist in the department strategy, demonstrating an understanding of the merchandising figures to actively contribute and make suggestions

  • Accurately and comprehensively prepare any reports requested for weekly trading and any other meetings ensuring they are completed comprehensively and to any deadlines set

  • Demonstrates an understanding of the principles of buying, production and supply chain

  • Assists in the building of range plans and ensures all updates are complete in a timely manner and inputted correctly

  • Achievement of all KPI targets for Clothing against a balanced scorecard of customers, sales and profit, colleagues and operations

  • Achieve sales and margin for Nutmeg to agreed finance plan

  • Deliver stock packages for graded stores through critical path management and ensure stock targets are worked within through use of prioritising stock intake

  • Ensure maximum availability on Never out of stock lines

  • Accurately and promptly raise any orders requested, utilising internal systems, ensure any orders for the department that are raised by junior team members are done so in a timely and accurate manner

  • Awareness of the departments weekly and seasonal sales figures, stock figures and targets

  • Reviews weekly sales performance and stock volumes and identify any opportunities and highlight any issues

About you

  • Clear understanding of how to serve Customer needs and requirements

  • Ability to champion the customer and retail a customer focus through daily routines

  • Sound commercial awareness

  • The ability to create environments where sharing ideas, issues and concerns is the norm

  • Ability to champion pace, change and simplicity

  • Ability to gain feedback from colleague and customers

  • Analytical thinking – manage multiple data sources and make the appropriate recommendations for sales, markdown and stock intake

  • Systems expertise ensuring speed and use of accuracy.

  • Attention to detail

  • Communication & Influencing

  • Commercial business qualification or relevant retail/merchandise experience

  • A passion for retailing & detailed analytical experience

About us

At Morrisons we like to do things our own way. We believe in working in partnership with our communities, colleagues, suppliers and British farmers to provide our customers with the freshest food at great value for money. We’re also constantly innovating. We've our own-brand clothing range - Nutmeg.

Nutmeg, which is part of the Morrison’s group, is a family lifestyle brand that launched in 2013 and is now sold in all of our Morrisons stores. Nutmegs aim is to take a fresh approach to clothing by celebrating the joys of childhood through offering our customers good, quality everyday clothes that are affordable, thoughtful and that work better for people’s lives. We want to develop and nurture talent within Nutmeg, where we have a diverse wealth of experience including backgrounds in designer, high street and supermarket clothing. We sincerely hope you will enjoy working and becoming a part of the Nutmeg Team.

In return for all your hard work, you will receive:

  • 15% discount in store from the day you join us

  • Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member

  • Career progression and development opportunities

  • Generous holiday entitlement

  • Market leading pension scheme and life assurance

  • Healthcare benefits including Aviva Digital GP

  • ‘MyPerks’ giving you discount with over 850 retailers

  • Free parking onsite

  • Enhanced Family, Maternity and Paternity Leave

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. 

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Plan your journey

Head Office, United Kingdom, BD3 7DL
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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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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    Amy

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    Farming is close to my heart and I truly understand, from spending time with farmers, how much Morrisons help them and support them. 

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    Everyone is there to support you and help you to develop your skills with a clear career path.

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    Alex

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    If you're up for the challenge and the hard work, it's extremely rewarding. There's loads of opportunities for you.

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    Madiya

    Procurement Specialist

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    The business has supported me with networking, mentors and buddies throughout my time here, really giving me the advice I need to progress.

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Meet the Recruiter

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Ryan Brewer

Resourcing Specialist - Head Office

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