Learn more about us and the role:
We have a fantastic opportunity to join the dedicated Tesco ROI team at UK Greetings as a Category Assistant. Supporting the Customer & Product Manager and the Category Controller, you will use sales data and your own creative flair to help build eye catching greetings card displays.
If you are self-motivated, process driven, and have an eye for detail then we’re looking for you! This is a great opportunity to join a team who strive to create eye catching greetings card and gift packaging displays, using data analysis and customer insights to ensure every consumer shopping our customers display walks away having purchased the perfect product.
The Category Co-ordinator role is an occasionally customer facing role, and some travel will be involved, so a full driving licence is required.
The key duties of the role include:
1. Assisting the Category Controllers with the interpretation of sales data to make recommendations for display changes
2. Collation of samples and product information for display set up
3. Work with the Business Information team and the Customer & Product Manager to create sales reports to monitor productivity and to prepare and deliver customer presentations
4. Regular Communication with internal UK Greetings divisions/departments on the specific needs of customers to develop their business
5. Category maintenance such as availability management
6. Competitor and product trend analysis
Essential Requirements:
7. Full UK driving license
8. Strong Excel skills and Microsoft Office knowledge
9. The ability to work to strict deadlines with meticulous attention to detail
10. Keen eye for market trends
11. Ability to adapt to changing priorities and multitask
Desirable Requirements:
12. Experience in category planning or visual merchandising
13. Experience within the greetings card industry
If this sounds like a good fit for you, and you’d like to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!
Notes/Brief for Recruitment Team:
Who we are
We help make the world a more thoughtful and caring place every single day with our greeting cards, gift dressings and party supplies products created for life’s big events, special occasions, and those “saw-this-and-thought-of-you” moments in life.
Along with our sister company John Sands, who are based in Australia and New Zealand, we’re part of the American Greetings Corporation, one of the largest privately owned greeting card publishers in the world.
As the largest direct to retail publisher of greeting cards and social expression products in the UK, we are the celebrations destination. You’ll find our amazing products in major supermarkets, high street retailers, and independent stores across the UK and internationally, as well as digital online marketplaces.
Here at UK Greetings we take pride in being an inclusive and diverse employer - we are dedicated and committed to building a culture where difference is valued and everyone is able to fulfil their potential at work regardless of their background.
Among the great benefits of working at UK Greetings are:
• Hybrid Working, working from home and our Dewsbury offices with flexibility around start and finish times
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
• Employee Referral Scheme
• Free onsite parking at Head Office sites
• Employee discount shop
• Auto-enrolled Pension Scheme
• Development opportunities; offering qualifications from Level 3 to 6
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Employee wellbeing support including Mental Health First Aiders
• Employee Recognition scheme
So if you have a passion for greeting cards and celebrations products and would love to be part of a talented team, you’re in the right place!