Merchandising Development Assistant in Bury

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world. JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally. We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

The Merchandising Development Assistant plays a pivotal role within the Merchandising Development team, providing consistent, high quality day to day support across the wider Merchandising function. The role contributes to the delivery, improvement, and ongoing evolution of key systems and processes, helping to ensure they operate efficiently, meet business needs, and enable teams to work effectively.

Responsibilities

• Act as a central point of expertise for merchandising systems and processes, ensuring seamless communication and alignment across internal teams, suppliers, and third party partners to enable efficient operational delivery.
• Maintain high standards of data integrity, ensuring supplier information is complete, accurate, and delivered on time to support critical business processes and downstream activities.
• Support key digital product and order workflows, proactively identifying and resolving issues to safeguard deadlines and operational performance.
• Provide governance and administrative oversight for departmental applications, contributing to system effectiveness and the continuous improvement of processes.
• Provide the Merchandising Development team with daily support for operational activities and strategic functional objectives.
• Develop and maintain structured documentation repositories, enabling knowledge sharing, compliance, and consistency across the department.
• Continuously build subject matter expertise across relevant systems, tools, and processes, acting as a knowledgeable resource for the wider team.
• Contribute to new initiatives and projects, bringing insight, organisation, and cross-functional coordination to support successful delivery.

Skills & Experience

• Strong Excel skills (intermediate level advantageous).
• Clear communicator who builds good relationships and works well with others.
• Takes ownership, uses initiative, and delivers work independently.
• Collaborative team player who shares information and supports others.
• Adaptable, proactive, and able to react to evolving business needs.
• Curious and eager to learn.
• Organised, detail-focused, and confident with data and admin tasks.
• Self motivated, enthusiastic, and focused on achieving team objectives.
• Experience in a data focused or supply chain role is advantageous.

Benefits

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.