About the job
The Wholesale Merchandising Specialist is specifically responsible for creating, delivering and maintaining a portfolio of planograms through either Business or Support Team activity that supports commercial and corporate strategies Supporting the delivery of agreed planograms, through clear processes that include Range Reset or Promotional and Seasonal Events, the role is accountable for timely and accurate plan creation and administration to stores
Some of your responsibilities will include:
- Be a role model for the business and department’s core purposes, whilst ensuring continual customer focus and alignment to leadership direction.
- Manage time, critical paths and workload effectively in line with agreed business processes to enable successful delivery of all structured activity
- Delegate responsibility effectively to drive performance, alongside helping to create an environment that encourages leadership and growth in others.
- Provide recommendations as well as opportunities for the team to find common ways of working using their specialist knowledge positively
- Display the desired behaviours and ways of working in all activities carried out, supporting and helping others within my business/support teams to maintain the quality and quantity of team output.
This position follows a hybrid model with a 4.5 day working week*.
Our teams work from our vibrant head office in Bradford for three days and remotely for a day and a half, Monday to Friday.
Hilmore House, our head office, offers convenient amenities, including a subsidised on-site restaurant, coffee shop, convenience and sample store, a prayer room, free parking, and frequent company wide events and promotions.
Applicants should live within a reasonable commuting distance of our office.
About you
We’ve built an incredibly diverse business, and we’re working hard to make sure we truly represent the communities we serve. One of the best things about working with so many different people is having the opportunity to listen, learn and connect with lots of different views, perspectives and beliefs. For this role, we’re looking for someone who has:
- Broad Merchandising experience in Retail environments.
- Proficient at analysing and presenting complex data
- Being part of strong, effective, high performing teams
- Comprehensive knowledge and insight of Retail industry and market trends.
- Excellent commercial awareness with a detailed understanding of all team processes and systems
- High level comprehension of end to end stock flow and ordering systems.
- Excellent communication including good emotional awareness to drive the right behaviours in teams
- Proactive, data led thinking and analysis with strong organisational skills to prioritise own and team’s workload effectively, working towards bigger picture thinking
About us
- 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus 10% for a friend/family member
- Annual bonus scheme
- Generous holiday entitlement
- 4.5 day working week* with flexible working hours
- A range of family friendly policies including Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, Neonatal and Fertility leave
- Company pension contributions
- Private healthcare
- Perks with over 850 retailers
We're Foodmakers and Shopkeepers and together, we make Morrisons. We’re the only UK retailer with our own manufacturing business spread across 18 sites, not to mention nearly 500 stores, we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part. So, whether you want to make the freshest food, sell it, or join us in our head office, we’d love to meet you…