Online Merchandising Planning Manager

Are you ready to take your career to new heights? Tesco is seeking an outstanding Merchandising professional to join our world-class team based in our head office in Welwyn Garden City. The successful candidate's work would directly help develop the F+F Brand online. As an industry leader, Tesco is committed to delivering flawless experiences to our customers, and we need a driven professional like you to help us achieve this goal.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. 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. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

• Support the Buying Manager with the curation and Buying the Online Range:
• Considering the importance of customer metrics in the curation process.
• Apply data insights to optimise stock availability on the website
• Monitor sales, stock levels, and profitability to ensure the best assortment for online customers
• Liaise with Marketing and Online teams to ensure all relevant content is available.
• Lead and support on all aspects of onsite ranging and planning.
• Align range optimisation with retail activity.
• Support with the provision of Samples for imagery and content requirements for products online
• Support the management of the online product range by curating and purchasing items based on customer metrics.
• monitor sales, and ensure profitability. Collaborate with Marketing, Online and Distribution teams to provide relevant content.
• Coordinate responses across the team and maintain a strategic focus

• Attention to detail
• Experience managing budgets
• People management experience is desirable but not required

Does this job sound great to you? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single requirement. At Tesco, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace for everyone. So if you’re passionate about this role, but your skills, experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we would encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for this role in our team!

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 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
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.