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supply chain specialist Bradford, Yorkshire and the Humber, England

Morrisons

Full Time Bradford, Yorkshire and the Humber, England 36880 - 30045 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

About The Role

Were looking for a Merchandising Specialist to join our exciting busy team based in Bradford. The purpose of the Merchandising function is to drive sales and reduce costs with a customer centric focus on availability - enabling the delivery of the right range, in the right space, for every product.

This role is specifically responsible for creating, delivering and maintaining a portfolio of planograms through either Business or Support Team activity that supports commercial and corporate strategies.

Supporting the delivery of agreed planograms, through clear processes that include Range Reset or Promotional and Seasonal Events, the role is accountable for timely and accurate plan creation and administration to stores.

The role also assumes a Group mindset - exploring all channels as growth opportunities.

Some of your accountabilities will include:

Adhering to agreed structure and governance of all activity to ensure all Business Team/stakeholders are aligned to output
Engagement in the Business Team's ways of working to ensure an optimized output that delivers against the plan and corporate purpose
Collaborative working with Business Teams to deliver customer-focused planograms that deliver commercial strategies through the use of robust and detailed data analysis that help to promote category growth
Provide first class service and support within Business Teams to all stakeholders, resolving varied queries whilst delivering required information to downstream teams
Be a role model for the business and department’s core purposes, whilst ensuring continual customer focus and alignment to leadership direction
Manage time, critical paths and workload effectively in line with agreed business processes to enable successfully delivers of all structured activity
Understand and utilize all available data and reporting to clearly demonstrate improvements to on shelf availability
Support all activity to grow market share, delivery of margin budgets, multi channel LFL growth and end of day availability improvements

This role is based at our fantastic head office in Bradford. Boasting an on-site restaurant, coffee shop, convenience and sample store, prayer room, free parking and regular company-wide events and promotions. Ideally, applicants will live within a reasonable distance of our office.

About The Company

Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.

Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.

We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.

Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you…

Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;

15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family member

Annual bonus scheme
Generous holiday entitlement
Four day working week with flexible working hours
Company pension contributions
Private healthcare
Perks with over 850 retailers
Free parking onsite

About You

So that you're set for success, we're looking for a self-starter, who's an exceptional communicator with the ability to influence at all levels. You'll work as part of a versatile team with a can-do culture, so it’s important that you're tenacious and strive for excellence.

You'll also have the following:

Comprehensive knowledge and insight of Retail industry and market trends
Excellent commercial awareness with a detailed understanding of all team processes and systems
High level comprehension of end to end stock flow and ordering systems
Ability to influence and impact stakeholder decision making up to Director level while being flexible and resilient in light of business direction change
Excellent communication including good emotional awareness to drive the right behaviours in teams
Proactive, data led thinking and analysis with strong organisational skills to prioritise own and team’s workload effectively, working towards bigger picture thinking
Broad Merchandising experience in Retail environments
Proficient at analyzing and presenting complex data
Being part of strong, effective, high performing teams
Provide and help build a support and guidance network that enables a good workplace for all colleagues