Assistant Merchandiser

Assistant Merchandiser

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. From fragrance to car care, clothing and pots and pans, our General Merchandise team delivers all the non-food items for Sainsbury’s, Habitat and Argos customers. This multi-brand environment means you get to work across most areas. You can also be a pioneer, because the team believes in being brave, iterating and learning as they go.

Non Food - Assistant Merchandiser

Why join us

Joining our Merchandising team at Sainsbury's offers an exciting opportunity to excel in your career with a renowned brand. As an Assistant Merchandiser, you will be part of a dynamic team that strives to deliver customer-focused product ranges and achieve sales, profit, margin, and stock targets. With a focus on trend analysis and merchandising systems, you will play a crucial role in ensuring we have the right products to meet our customers' needs.

What you'll do

Joining our Merchandising team as an Assistant Merchandiser, you will play a vital role in supporting the delivery of customer-focused product ranges to achieve sales, profit, margin, and stock targets. With a keen eye for trend analysis, you will ensure that our product offering meets customer demands and expectations. In this role, you will review weekly trading performance, identify opportunities and issues, and provide relevant analysis. You will own and manage category and SKU level forecasts to optimise sales, stock holding, margin, and availability. Collaborating with the A&R replenishment assistant, you will plan initial allocations and launch builds to meet stock and availability targets. Your strong analytical and numerical skills, coupled with proficiency in using merchandising systems, will enable you to drive efficiency and maximise availability. Additionally, you will be responsible for order management, maintaining data integrity, and ensuring compliance with legal and sustainability requirements.

Who you are

As an Assistant Merchandiser for our Merchandising team, you are a driven and passionate professional who thrives in a fast-paced retail environment. With previous experience in an Assistant Merchandiser or Merchandise Admin position, or a relevant field graduate, you have a solid understanding of allocation and stock management. Your strong analytical and numerical skills, coupled with your proficiency in Excel, enable you to review trading performance, forecast sales, and optimise stock availability to achieve sales, profit, margin, and stock targets. Your proactive approach, willingness to learn new systems, and ability to build positive relationships with stakeholders make you a valuable asset to our team.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working.

Here are some of the benefits we offer:

1. Colleague discount: 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU, and Habitat after 4 weeks, increasing to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday.
2. Pensions scheme and life cover.
3. Performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary.
4. Annual holiday allowance with the option to buy additional holiday.
5. Season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme.
6. Employee assistance programme.
7. Up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.