About The Role
We’re looking for a Merchandising Specialist within our Commercial Team to work on our most strategically important project to help embed a new Merchandising system. This system will have a far reaching impact across the business, not only directly affecting the Merchandising team, but also through its output provided through its planograms and range data, which is consumed by many other systems to manage the flow of stock across our network and into stores.
The purpose of the Merchandising function is to drive sales and reduce costs with a customer centric focus on availability - enabling the delivery of the right range, in the right space, for every product. Merchandisers are specifically responsible for creating, delivering and maintaining a portfolio of planograms that support commercial and corporate strategies - and therefore the system they use to do this is fundamental to success.
Through rigorous testing and a detailed understanding of current business processes, you will help ensure that the system integration is seamless, and allows the continuation of current working practices, whilst enabling new, more complex opportunities to manage range change and drive sales.
This role will be on a fixed term contract for 18 months.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
- Working with individual Merchandisers and their stakeholders to understand ways of working and processes.
- Documenting and process mapping current system processes.
- Understanding and creating relevant tests to check system architecture and data flow.
- Testing and evaluating system data and data analysis to allow proficient category support, insight and development.
- Validating system inputs and data sets to ensure system output is robust.
- Understand required reporting functionality, and create/validate as required.
- Performance testing across other integrated systems, providing required data set up to ensure success.
- Creating standard operation procedures (SOPs) to document new ways of working in the new system environment.
- Provide face to face training for super users, providing ongoing support to drive team capability.
- Supporting project work as required; ensuring associated deliverables are provided as and when expected, working autonomously when needed.
This role is based at our fantastic head office in Bradford. Boasting an on-site restaurant, coffee shop, convenience and sample store, prayer room, free parking and regular company-wide events and promotions. Ideally, applicants will live within a reasonable distance of our office.
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:
- Extensive and current knowledge of Retail industry.
- Retail systems competence, including micro space planning software expertise to allow planogram and range analysis.
- Broad and varied category understanding, with an aptitude to apply knowledge to specific areas to allow a detailed approach.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google applications and report writing.
- Ability to analyse complex qualitative and quantitative data.
- Ability to motivate individuals and lead through change.
- Ability to monitor, assess and manage system performance.
- Ability to manage projects, stakeholders and work to deadlines in a large organisation across various formats.
- Record of merchandising practices including category reviews.
- Experience of customer-centric planning and delivery.
- Record of managing costs and working to a budget.
About The Team
At Morrisons, we're the single biggest food manufacturer in the UK, and the only retailer to operate our own processing sites. Which means we're not just responsible for keeping our shelves stocked - we need to stock our manufacturing sites, too.
As a true one-of-a-kind business, we curate, arrange and buy everything from raw materials like flour and meat to the products our customers pop in for every day. We negotiate prices and make sure we're able to sell as much as we can. We look at product packaging and quality to help us decide where products will sit in our stores. And when you remember that each category is worth a percentage of our overall £12 billion turnover from supermarket sales alone, the impact of each buying team is huge.
We work in embedded business teams, so our Buyers sit with their supply chain, finance and technical counterparts, working alongside each other to make decisions and take action quickly. We even have joint targets so that we're unified in our mission to serve our customers.
About The Company
- 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus 10% for two friends/family members
- Annual bonus scheme
- Generous holiday entitlement
- 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…
