Job Title
George Home Merchandiser
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits.
Category
Buying
Closing Date
27 October 2025
George Home Merchandiser – FFF & Kids Dine
About the role
Working within the George Home team, you will be responsible for delivering a commercial range alongside the Buyer, whilst also looking after the planning and weekly trading of your category. Maximising sales and profit is key, whilst ensuring availability for our customers at the same time. This role will be challenging and fast paced. Merchandising is key to our success, and you'll help us deliver the goods in this area - making sure that our customers get exactly what they want, exactly when they want it.
The ins and outs
1. Working directly with Buyer to set the category strategy.
2. Delivering the business plan - working on longer term strategy and shorter-term proactive sales driving activity.
3. Driving the business to maximize profit in-season.
4. Developing strong relationships with suppliers.
5. Managing product critical path and lifecycle to ensure launch availability and full availability on continuity lines.
6. Accurate forecasting of sales, stock turn and markdown to achieve maximum profit.
7. Planning of markdown activity
8. Analysis of sales data to provide recommendations for range control, budgeting & selection for future seasons.
9. Working closely with the buying team to further understand our customer needs & competitor activity
10. This is a fast-paced role, and the ability to switch between longer term strategy and immediate trading priorities is key.
What you will need:
11. Ability to thrive in a demanding, fast-paced environment
12. Enthusiasm to take responsibility and progress in your career
13. Ability to work independently and move your areas of responsibility forward
14. Good level of numeracy with an expert level of excel
15. Personal skills to work with people at all levels - not just in our business, but also beyond it
16. Flair for solving problems and making decisions
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
17. Discretionary company bonus
18. Company pension up to 7% matched
19. 15% colleague discount in store and online
20. Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
21. Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
22. Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves