Merchandiser - Eastleigh, United Kingdom - B&Q

B&Q

Verified Company

Eastleigh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About the role

Merchandiser - Decor & Lighting

Permanent

£50,000 - £60,000 + Car / Car Allowance + Bonus + Pension + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working

Southampton, Store Support Office
We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better.

From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they'll love.

Join us as a Merchandiser and you'll be a big part of this.

At B&Q we have a hybrid approach to working to increase flexibility in how we work. For this opportunity we will be looking for someone to be in the office 3 days per week.

Key responsibilities

You'll lead a category merchandising team and work in partnership with the Category Buyer to curate and deliver an inspirational product range that meets the needs of our customers.

Driving sales, margin (£GM & GM%) and market share across all channels, improving sales and profit density and stock efficiency.

You'll work cross functionally to build a range architecture that ensures accessibility for all customers, across all distribution channels, physical and digital.

Work alongside the Category Buyer to develop a category proposition, providing analytics to support decisions that ensure it meets our customer needs, identifies opportunities and mitigates risks, whilst delivering against sales, margin, stock efficiency and market share targets
Create a compelling range hierarchy, incorporating assortment, space, inventory and fulfilment principles, which reflects the category strategy and meets the needs of our customers across all channels, delivering our vision of supporting all customers with access to DIY/Trade products
Review and monitor category performance, with the buying team, through reporting and analytics, taking action to reflect changing sales and trends
Manage and create sales and budget forecasts and associated business cases, including PIRs, for specific categories, ensuring shortfalls or risks to plan are identified and addressed
Support the Head of Merchandising in forecasting for the R&O, period forecasts and IBP process
Forecast volumes for all new lines (6 months), fixed buys, promotional lines, including DSV
Work collaboratively with the Supply Manager to optimise availability, stock and sales whilst ensuring stock exit plans are in place to support range change activity (range, promotions, clearance) and are delivered to agreed targets
Working alongside the Category Buyer, Channel Leads and Trading team, execute category/promotional trading plans, optimising opportunities and minimising risk, ensuring agility of the plan based on market conditions
Accountable for managing Small and Medium sized Range Change projects within your own category to successful conclusion across all channels, adhering to the process and within time, cost and quality parameters
Work collaboratively with Commercial Planning teams to successfully implement ranges across all channels
Work collaboratively with the Range and Space team to continuously improve sales and margin densities across all formats
With the Category Buyer, manage the product lifecycle including range performance, identifying and optimising trading opportunities and the delivery of promotions and range reviews
Manage and influence stakeholders across a range of levels, internally and externally, to support the delivery of KPIs
Conduct regular store (digital & physical), competitor and vendor visits to increase awareness, informing ranging and trading plans
Lead, empower and motivate your team to deliver category strategy, driving high performance and developing future talent whilst role modelling the B&Q values.

Required skills & experience

Previous experience of trading product ranges across multiple sales channels
Numerical and analytical with strong attention to detail
Commercially focussed with the ability to understand financial insights and translate this into key business deliverables
Knowledge and understanding of the home improvement market and product seasonality
Ability to understand customer insights and market trends
Ability to drive business performance using insights and knowledge to deliver an agile trading plan.
Ability to understand and manage complex range architecture
Strong communicator
Ability to lead, develop and coach commercial merchandising teams to drive high performance
Ability to build relationships at all levels
Microsoft Office skills, in particular Excel and PowerPoint

What's in it for me?

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, Car or Car Allowance, ShareSave options, 6.

6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more

As part of a great team, you'll be supported t