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Join Superdrug Head Office- Make a Real Difference Every Day!

Location: East Croydon

Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.

Salary: Competitive

Why Superdrug?

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.

We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

Here's The Exciting Bit… A Day Includes

Ensuring that department, business and cross-functional strategies are explored and implemented through category analysis and planning

Collaborating with and challenging the buying teams in making commercially-sound decisions relating to stock, that maximise sales, margin and income, whilst minimising risk.

Key Responsibilities

Planning the optimal range/assortment by store group, alongside the buying team and working with Visual Planners to bring these to life on planograms

Preparing key performance reports and ad hoc analyses to aid decision making

Owning and managing the range review process ensuring the critical path is adhered to

Managing the category stock budgets, ensuring the quality of stock is constantly reviewed and optimised

Effectively managing discontinued lines out of the business, minimising any margin impact

Helping ascertain and support the strategic direction for space and agreeing the associated budget impacts

Setting customer focused merchandising principles, ensuring fixture is right for the category & the business guidelines

Analysing trials and initiatives to provide clear insights and proactively suggest next steps

Undertaking various other tasks for the role, and where required, to support others within the merchandising team

Undertaking other business projects as and when required, liaising with departments including commercial, finance, data insights, marketing, supply chain, property and store operations

Generates detailed customer focused initiatives, in line with the logistics strategy and supports with execution

Listens to the customer and implements new ideas and ways of working which are designed to improve service considering both Online and Offline

Ensures the team priorities actions which delight the customer/team member

This Job Is a Good Fit For You If

You can work effectively and efficiently in an ever-changing environment

You enjoy delving into performance and behaviours/insights to drive strategies and decisions

You know you add value through collaborative working, and ensuring people feel engaged

You understand how important ‘right stock, right place, right time’ is to retail businesses

You are adept at looking at the bigger picture

You can easily adapt to new environments, and working with many different stakeholders

You get satisfaction through realising your strategies and seeing the results.

Establishes strong relationships at all levels

Can manage tough/complex messages with all stakeholders

Role model collaboration to the team to exceed goals

Positive attitude towards feedback, uses this to generate initiatives to meet/exceed expectations, and shares feedback in a meaningful way

Effectively manages their team by playing to strengths and proactively addressing its opportunities. Ensuring everyone wellbeing & diversity is considered and celebrated

Feels empowered to challenge across different career bands and roles. Supporting other team members in shaping their work to do so

Proactively keeps up to date with market and consumer trends in their specialism and feeds this into department strategy

Uses data and insights to challenges the status quo to keep us ahead of the competition

Uses data to inform and generate new ideas and make decisions to improve on future plans

What You’ll Need To Succeed

You will have experience in merchandising, inventory management, retail planning or retail analytics

You could be a Junior Merchandiser or Assistant Merchandiser looking to take the next step in your career

You will demonstrate good attention to detail and data integrity

You will have good verbal reasoning skills and the ability to understand and interpret the bigger picture as well as present to key stakeholders in the business

You will be numerate and analytical

You will be positive and proactive, and use analytical skills to seek solutions

You will have an aptitude to challenge the status quo, and figures that appear misleading

You will be team focused and be able to work collaboratively with other departments

You will be confident with the Microsoft Office suite - in particular Excel; and demonstrate an aptitude for working with spreadsheets

Customer Focus: Be the voice of customers and orchestrate the organisation to live the brand purpose and inspire a customer-first culture to build customer love in every touchpoint of our online and offlineplatform

Tech & AI : Helping your team understand when to use AI, when to rely on human judgment, and how to combine both

Tech & AI Rethinking how work gets done - Actively shifting work from repetitive tasks to higher-value activities as AI takes on routine work

Tech & AI Role modelling behaviours to encourage confidence with AI. Actively developing your ability to use AI effectively and think critically about outputs

Tech & AI Strengthen Human Touch - Keeping the human element strong: Balancing AI efficiency with human coaching, empathy, and team cohesion

Here's What's In It For You

• 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
• 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
• 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
• Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
• Company pension matching and bonus
• We offer Stream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
• We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
• Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
• Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support
• Come and be part of something special!
  
  

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