Merchandise Planner - Flowers

Derby, England, United Kingdom

7/8/2025

As our Flower Merchandise Planner, working as part of the planning team, you’ll own the end to end supply plan for our cut flower and gifting ranges, steering them from field to vase while protecting freshness, profitability and joy to our customers. Working hand in hand with Buying, Demand Planner for flowers and our brilliant growers, you’ll make sure the right flowers reach the right customers at the perfect moment.

What you’ll be doing:

• Plan and control seasonal flower ranges and gifting bouquets, sourcing from the UK and the rest of the world. This could be finished goods or raw materials both on Myton Horticulture sites and remote grower/supplier locations
• Work in collaboration with internal teams to manage stock, availability, waste/shrink and markdowns for all the products and customers
• Balance availability, waste and markdown targets through razor sharp management
• Alongside the Head of Flower Buying, have regular meetings with all the flower grower/supplier base and be the main point of contact for daily order planning
• Work closely with the demand planning role in flowers to monitor forecasts versus actual orders and look at long term forecasting for all our growers, to be shared in regular review meetings
• Work with the Head of Flower Buying to set up supplier KPI meetings and regularly monitor performance
• Make sure all Planning administration is up to date and easily shared and understood by the Myton Horticulture flowers planning and buying team. With a progressive view to improvement of systems
• Partner with growers and internal teams to protect quality, freshness and sustainability all the way through to our customers
  
  

About You

You will have:

• Experience in planning flowers or other life-limited FMCG categories
• A hawkeye for data, you’re fluent in sales curves, WSSI/OTB and root cause analysis
• Confidence in negotiating, with the ability to secure availability and value during peak season pressure
• A passion for horticulture and sustainability that’s contagious to suppliers and customer teams
  
  

About Us

In return for all your hard work, you will receive:

• 15% discount in store from the day you join us
• Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member
• Career progression and development opportunities
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Market leading pension scheme and life assurance
• Healthcare benefits including Aviva Digital GP
• ‘MyPerks’ giving you discount with over 850 retailers
• Free parking onsite
• Enhanced Family, Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Annual bonus scheme
• Private healthcare
  
  

You’ll find a great big welcome here at Myton Food Group - the part of our business that looks after manufacturing, whilst maintaining strong roots within Morrisons Supermarkets.

At Myton Food Group, we have a legacy to be proud of. We’re British farming’s biggest single direct customer. We buy from highly valued suppliers. And we’re passionate about the quality of our food. Today, we have 19 manufacturing sites across the UK, where we pack and process fresh meats and fish, savoury and sweet pies, fruit and veg, flower bouquets, bread and lots more.

We really do stand out in the world of food manufacturing. But what we’re especially proud of is the way we all get stuck in and work as a team, in partnership across our supply chain. Read more about what we do at our Myton Food Group website.