This role will be based in Warrington with the expectation of a minimum of 3 days in the office.
As a Merchandising Manager within the GM team, you are accountable for the presentation of ranges in stores that meet all customer and business needs, through the delivery of operationally robust and customer-centric planograms, whilst supporting commercial and corporate strategies.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
* Successful delivery of planograms that meet stock holding, sales and range structure criteria, and corporate strategy intents.
* Responsible for the management of stock levels for new and delisted lines, improving working capital and availability.
* Category and product data analysis to ensure optimal balance of range and space.
* Ownership of all elements of range delivery and stock deletions, managing the critical path and all associated stakeholders.
* Insightful support to Trading teams during range reset activity, providing robust data through category knowledge and analysis.
* Leading business initiatives through the provision of category knowledge, supporting trials and projects to aid customer awareness, increasing market share through the continual evolution of customer-led range presentation.
* Leading category development through the review, trialling and delivery of planograms that have an appropriate range and space mix whilst ensuring that customer and commercial needs are prioritised, and delivered efficiently.
* Delivering optimised presentation of ranges through efficient end to end stock level management resulting in the balanced use of all fixture space.
* Developing and providing first class service and support to commercial teams and stores, to resolve queries and drive the right range into the right stores.
For this role, we’re looking for someone who has:
* Detailed knowledge of Retail industry and market trends.
* Strong retail systems abilities, including micro space planning software and stock management systems.
* Strong category knowledge, including holistic range building, price hierarchies and brand structures, all wholly customer focused.
* Stock management processes, including the introduction of new lines and cost efficient deletions of exiting ranges.
* Ability to influence, negotiate and arbitrate, with confidence in decision making whilst maintaining good working relationships.
* Strong team and autonomous work ethic, often simultaneously whilst balancing multiple category workloads and projects.
* Data analysis with merchandising systems, and presentation.
* Strong time management and multi-tasking skills.
* Broad merchandising experience in the Grocery retail sector.
* Record of analysing market and sales data, supplier information and product knowledge to build ranges and planograms.
* End to end support role in category reviews, providing insight.
* Experience of inventory management and range ownership
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