Merchandise Planner

Join Superdrug Head Office- Make a Real Difference Every Day!

Location: East CroydonHours: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. Salary:Competitive

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.Were 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. Were all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.Here's the exciting bit A day includes:

Ensuring that department, business and cross-functional strategies are explored and implemented through category analysis and planningCollaborating with and challenging the buying teams in making commercially-sound decisions relating to stock, that maximise sales, margin and income, whilst minimising risk.Key ResponsibilitiesPlanning the optimal range/assortment by store group, alongside the buying team and working with Visual Planners to bring these to life on planogramsPreparing key performance reports and ad hoc analyses to aid decision making Owning and managing the range review process ensuring the critical path is adhered toManaging the category stock budgets, ensuring the quality of stock is constantly reviewed and optimisedEffectively managing discontinued lines out of the business, minimising any margin impactHelping ascertain and support the strategic direction for space and agreeing the associated budget impactsSetting customer focused merchandising principles, ensuring fixture is right for the category & the business guidelinesAnalysing trials and initiatives to provide clear insights and proactively suggest next stepsUndertaking various other tasks for the role, and where required, to support others within the merchandising teamUndertaking other business projects as and when required, liaising with departments including commercial, finance, data insights, marketing, supply chain, property and store operationsGenerates detailed customer focused initiatives, in line with the logistics strategy and supports with executionListens to the customer and implements new ideas and ways of working which are designed to improve service considering both Online and OfflineEnsures the team priorities actions which delight the customer/team memberThis job is a good fit for you if:You can work effectively and efficiently in an ever-changing environmentYou enjoy delving into performance and behaviours/insights to drive strategies and decisionsYou know you add value through collaborative working, and ensuring people feel engagedYou understand how important 'right stock, right place, right time is to retail businessesYou are adept at looking at the bigger pictureYou can easily adapt to new environments, and working with many different stakeholdersYou get satisfaction through realising your strategies and seeing the results.Establishes strong relationships at all levelsCan manage tough/complex messages with all stakeholdersRole model collaboration to the team to exceed goalsPositive attitude towards feedback, uses this to generate initiatives to meet/exceed expectations, and shares feedback in a meaningful wayEffectively manages their team by playing to strengths and proactively addressing its opportunities. Ensuring everyone wellbeing & diversity is considered and celebratedFeels empowered to challenge across different career bands and roles. Supporting other team members in shaping their work to do soProactively keeps up to date with market and consumer trends in their specialism and feeds this into department strategyUses data and insights to challenges the status quo to keep us ahead of the competitionUses data to inform and generate new ideas and make decisions to improve on future plansWhat youll need to succeed:You will have experience in merchandising, inventory management, retail planning or retail analyticsYou could be a Junior Merchandiser or Assistant Merchandiser looking to take the next step in your careerYou will demonstrate good attention to detail and data integrityYou 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 businessYou will be numerate and analyticalYou will be positive and proactive, and use analytical skills to seek solutionsYou will have an aptitude to challenge the status quo, and figures that appear misleadingYou will be team focused and be able to work collaboratively with other departmentsYou will be confident with the Microsoft Office suite - in particular Excel; and demonstrate an aptitude for working with spreadsheetsCustomer Focus: Be the voice of customers and orchestrate the organisation to live the brand purpose and inspire a customer-first culture to build customer love in every touchpoint of our online and offlineplatform Tech & AI : Helping your team understand when to use AI, when to rely on human judgment, and how to combine bothTech & AI Rethinking how work gets done - Actively shifting work from repetitive tasks to higher-value activities as AI takes on routine work Tech & AI Role modelling behaviours to encourage confidence with AI. Actively developing your ability to use AI effectively and think critically about outputs Tech & AI Strengthen Human Touch - Keeping the human element strong: Balancing AI efficiency with human coaching, empathy, and team cohesion

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