We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for an ambitious, experienced and hard-working Assistant Merchandiser on a Maternity leave cover, to oversee parts of Paperchase range and event categories. Tesco is a leading multinational retailer and as an Assistant Merchandiser at Tesco, you will play a huge role within the team. Working alongside an Assistant Buyer, you will be responsible for ensuring we plan and deliver the most commercial and profitable ranges to meet our Customer's needs. Please note: If you are applying for a Secondment opportunity, your benefits, including bonus, will continue to align to your current role, for further information please refer to the Secondment policy. Building balanced ranges for our department that meet sales, stock and profit targets Contributing to strategy and trade meetings with information based on fact and intuition. Ensuring the MPR systems accurately reflect the range build for launch in line with critical path Supporting the department range launch critical path Feeding into the promotion and events trade plan (incl. managing nomination process) in line with budget. Updating and maintaining all ranging/ merchandising systems/ trackers Ensuring that our pricing is administered within agreed timescales, adhering to pricing policy Ad-hoc analysis, including lessons learnt, cost to serve, and pareto, giving recommendations for ways to improve category sales or margin as a result Identifying and managing exit of lines from the business including escalating impact on all KPI's Management of the departmental WSSI forecasting (at sub group level to small department level), highlighting risks and opportunities and managing KPI's Vs budget. Preparing Monday Trade Analysis reports and undertaking follow up actions Reviewing performance Vs. all KPI's highlighting risks, opportunities and proposing actions- Working alongside Demand Planning to help resolve any supply chain/ replenishment issues Operational skills relevant for this job: Analysis and report preparation skills Data analysis and numeracy skills MS Office (esp Excel) Communications Experience relevant for this job: Merchandising experience Producing and analysing reports