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Category Merchandiser (Small Domestic Appliances)

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  • Job
    Full-time
    Mid & Senior Level
  • Customer Relations
    Logistics
  • London

Requirements

  • Strong numerical and analytical skills to review data and provide recommendations/actions / plans to drive sales, profit and cash
  • Good negotiation and influencing skills
  • Excellent inter-personal and communication skills, capable of presenting with Team forums as well as working cross functionally to achieve the desired results
  • Excellent commercial awareness and appreciation of customer needs
  • Good knowledge of MS Office, in particular Excel
  • Ability to use data and evaluations to recommend commercial decisions
  • Excellent planning and organisational skills to ensure the business has the right stock and availability
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to ensure that the team and cross functional departments are aligned to successful delivery
  • Strong attention to detail

Responsibilities

  • Working alongside the Senior Merchandiser to help drive the performance of their categories, help set and agree the Category Strategy and range plans, monitoring Commercial performance and ensure retained profit is in line with expectation and budget, whilst managing up to 2 Assistant Merchandisers
  • Ensuring sales, margin, stock and availability are on track to plan and highlighting to the category squads what needs to be done to course correct and get back to plan
  • Ensuring the right stock is available in the right place for our customers
  • Managing the weekly OTB for areas of responsibility and ensure the planners are ordering stock within these set budget parameters
  • Controlling the product selection critical path to ensure ranges are selected in line with product and supplier lead times to achieve range launch/promotional deadlines
  • Closely monitor the promotions and events performance against plan for all key KPI’s
  • Closely monitor the SKU sourcing and challenge where necessary to ensure effective rate of sale and ROI
  • Updating weekly from squad consensus on 8 week outlook on sales, margin and stock ensuring the central planning team can roll up the latest view highlighting any concerns or changes to current plan and budget
  • Driving the supplier strategies and optimise performance/ supply and stock holding
  • Ensuring the teams are ordering and building our OEM containers in the most efficient way, challenging MOQ's and not building excess stock

FAQs

What is the job title for this position?

The job title is Category Merchandiser (Small Domestic Appliances).

Where is the job location?

The job is based in London with hybrid working options.

Is this position permanent?

Yes, this position is permanent.

What are the working hours for this role?

This role is full-time.

Who will I be working with in this position?

You will work alongside the Senior Merchandiser and manage up to 2 Assistant Merchandisers, while collaborating with various internal functions and external suppliers.

What are the main responsibilities of the Category Merchandiser?

Responsibilities include driving category performance, managing stock and availability, monitoring key metrics, and working on promotional events.

What skills are required for this role?

Strong numerical and analytical skills, negotiation skills, excellent communication abilities, commercial awareness, proficiency in MS Office (especially Excel), and organizational skills are required.

What benefits are offered with this job?

Benefits include hybrid working, private medical insurance, a competitive pension scheme, holiday allowance, access to a company bonus scheme, life assurance, and staff discounts.

Why should I join Currys?

Joining Currys offers opportunities for career development, ongoing training, and the chance to make a positive impact on people and the planet as part of a diverse and inclusive team.

We are Currys. One team with one shared passion: helping everyone enjoy amazing technology.

Retail & Consumer Goods
Industry
5001-10,000
Employees
1884
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

As one of the UK’s best-known retailers in tech, we go the extra mile for our customers – online, in-store and in their homes. But we don’t just sell amazing tech. We deliver it, install it, support it and fix it, too. Most important of all, we bring a human touch to tech to make the magic happen for every customer. We’re proud of the service we deliver across the many different teams that make up our business. And that’s all down to our people, 30,000+ capable and committed colleagues, learning together, growing together, making us amazing and celebrating the wins together. Ultimately, help is at the heart of our business. Helping everyone enjoy amazing technology. And helping our colleagues find new ways to make the most of their talents, to realise their ambitions as well as ours.

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