Junior Merchandiser (6 Month FTC) in London

Why Superdrug?

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.

We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

Here's the exciting bit…a day includes

Contribute to the implementation of department and business strategies through category analysis and planning

Tracking the sales, margins and stock levels of your categories and producing regular reporting

Collaborating with the wider merchandising team, supply chain and commercial teams.

Key Responsibilities

Planning the optimal range/assortment by store group, alongside the buying team and working with Visual Planners to bring these to life on planograms

Preparing key performance reports and ad hoc analyses to aid decision making

Owning and managing the range review process ensuring the critical path is adhered to

Setting customer focused merchandising principles, ensuring fixture is right for the category & the business guidelines

Analysing trials and initiatives to provide clear insights and proactively suggest next steps

Undertaking various other tasks for the role, and where required, to support others within the merchandising team.

Undertaking other business projects as and when required, liaising with departments including commercial, finance, data insights, marketing, supply chain, property and store operations

This job is a good fit for you if:

You can work effectively and efficiently in an ever-changing environment

You enjoy delving into performance and behaviours/insights to drive strategies and decisions

You know you add value through collaborative working, and ensuring people feel engaged.

You understand how important ‘right stock, right place, right time’ is to retail businesses

You are adept at looking at the bigger picture

You can easily adapt to new environments, and working with many different stakeholders

You get satisfaction through realising your strategies and seeing the results.

What you’ll need to succeed:

You will have experience in merchandising, inventory management, retail planning or retail analytics.

You could be an Assistant Merchandiser or Junior Merchandiser, or a Merchandise Assistant looking to take the next step in their career.

You will demonstrate good attention to detail and data integrity

You will have good verbal reasoning skills and the ability to understand and interpret the bigger picture as well as present to key stakeholders in the business.

You will be numerate and analytical

You will be positive and proactive, and use analytical skills to seek solutions

You will have an aptitude to challenge the status quo, and figures that appear misleading

You will be team focused and be able to work collaboratively with other departments

You will be customer focused

You will be confident with the Microsoft Office suite - in particular Excel; and demonstrate an aptitude for working with spreadsheets.

Here's what’s in it for you:

33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)

2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend

30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online

Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station

Company pension matching and bonus

We offer Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it

Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK

We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!

Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes

Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support

Come and be part of something special.

Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.

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