Category Merchandiser (Small Domestic Appliances)

at  Currys

We know our people are the secret to our success. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to reward great work. You’ll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including:

• Hybrid working
• Private medical insurance
• Competitive pension scheme
• Competitive holiday allowance
• Access to company bonus scheme
• Life Assuranc

As part of this role, you’ll be responsible for:

• Working alongside the Senior Merchandiser to help drive the performance of their categories, help set and agree the Category Strategy and range plans, monitoring Commercial performance and ensure retained profit is in line with expectation and budget, whilst managing up to 2 Assistant Merchandisers
• Ensuring sales, margin, stock and availability are on track to plan and highlighting to the category squads what needs to be done to course correct and get back to plan
• Ensuring the right stock is available in the right place for our customers
• Managing the weekly OTB for areas of responsibility and ensure the planners are ordering stock within these set budget parameters
• Controlling the product selection critical path to ensure ranges are selected in line with product and supplier lead times to achieve range launch/promotional deadlines
• Closely monitor the promotions and events performance against plan for all key KPI’s
• Closely monitor the SKU sourcing and challenge where necessary to ensure effective rate of sale and ROI
• Updating weekly from squad consensus on 8 week outlook on sales, margin and stock ensuring the central planning team can roll up the latest view highlighting any concerns or changes to current plan and budget
• Driving the supplier strategies and optimise performance/ supply and stock holding
• Ensuring the teams are ordering and building our OEM containers in the most efficient way, challenging MOQ’s and not building excess stock

You will need:

• Strong numerical and analytical skills to review data and provide recommendations/actions / plans to drive sales, profit and cash
• Good negotiation and influencing skills
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills, capable of presenting with Team forums as well as working cross functionally to achieve the desired results
• Excellent commercial awareness and appreciation of customer needs
• Good knowledge of MS Office, in particular Excel
• Ability to use data and evaluations to recommend commercial decisions
• Excellent planning and organisational skills to ensure the business has the right stock and availability.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to ensure that the team and cross functional departments are aligned to successful delivery
• Strong attention to detail

We know our people are the secret to our success. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to reward great work. You’ll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including:

• Hybrid working
• Private medical insurance
• Competitive pension scheme
• Competitive holiday allowance
• Access to company bonus scheme
• Life Assurance

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