Head of Central Merchandising and Trade Planning

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We are delighted to share that we are recruiting for a Head of Central Merchandising and Trade Planning 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.

• 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.

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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• 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

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.

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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.