About the role
At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for a Head of Central Merchandising to join our dynamic Home & Clothing team (F&F) here at Tesco.
This candidate will play a crucial role within our Home & Clothing Central team, ensuring the achievement of important metrics such as Sales, Margin, and Stock. Collaboration with Buying, Merchandising, and Finance teams is essential in this position.
This candidate will need to collaborate closely with senior partners within Home and Clothing. The position will be based at our Welwyn Garden City Pear office.
You will be responsible for
* Budget setting by category for important financial metrics (Sales, Intake Margin, MD, Stock and Options).
* Monitoring and managing monthly forecasts to achieve budgeted Financial metrics.
* Coordinating with Buying, Merchandising, Trade Planning and Operations to improve the performance of the financial critical metrics.
* Collaborating with the Finance team to achieve essential financial metrics.
* Collaborate and align with collaborators at all levels to achieve important financial metrics.
* Improve Central Merchandise processes to achieve key performance targets.
* Identifying short term and long-term priorities to be delivered cross functionally.
* Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.
You will need
For this role, we would need someone with a strong Knowledge and experience of merchandising roles in Home and/or Clothing, ideally with some experience of Central Merchandising.
* Strong merchandise planning skills, with solid experience of delivering merchandising control, ideally with experience in Central Merchandising.
* Ideally have experience working cross functionally, and working closely with Finance, Operations and Merchandising.
* They will have experience of influencing senior collaborators, with strong communication skills.
* They will look for opportunities to take accountability, make decisions and drive progress
* Their energy and positive outlook will ensure that teams around them deliver collaboratively to deliver growth plans.
* They will live the Tesco purpose and leadership behaviours, acting as a role model for their teams.
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What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
* Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
* Car Cash Allowance
* Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
* Private medical insurance
* Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
* 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
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