Trainee Assistant Merchandiser Liverpool, England
Job description
About the Role
As a Trainee Assistant Merchandiser, you'll support the Assistant Merchandisers in optimising the customer offer, sales, availability and profitability of designated product areas.
You will be working within the Product & Stock Placement teams to drive timely and accurate actions to effectively handle stock flow through the supply chain from product signoff to the end of the product life cycle.
By competently managing the stock systems, levers, processes and communications throughout the product life cycle, sounds challenging? You’ll be given all the training and development required to fulfil your career here at Matalan.
About Matalan
From humble beginnings to disruptive innovations in the retail industry, when we say there’s no other retailer like Matalan, we really mean it! There’s an honesty and energy here that allows our people to shine, which our colleagues, customers and suppliers love.
With over 200 stores in the UK, a growing online presence and over 15,000 employees, we’re a thriving, omnichannel value retailer that’s going places and delivering year on year growth.
If you want to work for a company that’s passionate about its people, helps you to grow and be the best you can be, then you’ve come to the right place.???
We work together to support our customers, suppliers and each other, and we’re excited by the possibility of our people helping us to shape the future of retail.
We make sure every voice is heard, nurture the ambitions of our people and invest in their future. Our amazing and diverse people make us who we are and our values are the driving force behind everything we do: Think Customer, Think Family, Be Real, Be the Best.
Talent is quickly spotted and nurtured, and there are lots of opportunities to tailor make your own career and learn with us.
Right now, Matalan is stepping in to a new age and embracing the changing face of retail. We have some exciting opportunities across the business in Retail and Logistics, as well as Ecommerce, Marketing, Technology and Product at our Head Office in Liverpool and our new Creative Hub in London.
Benefits
- In addition to competitive salaries, we also offer the below core benefits:
- 20% staff discount, which increases with length of service
- Thrive Recognition Scheme?
- Wellbeing support provided by the Retail Trust?
- Life Assurance?
- Retail Rewards platform offering discounts for other retailers?
- Pension Scheme?
- Access to a wide range of career development ?
- Additional benefits may apply depending on your role and area of the business
About You
To find the best people for our Merchandising teams, you should have the following....
- Educated to graduate level, no matter what your degree, we would like to hear from you!
- High, consistent attention to detail, always aiming to deliver good quality work to key deadlines
- Experience within a retail environment would be beneficial.
- Ability to effectively communicate at all levels across the business
- Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with customers and internal partners
- Excellent presentation and organisational skills
