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As our Trainee Assistant Merchandiser on Central Planning, you will support the Trade & Financial Planning team in delivering business reporting and analysis to support key actions and decisions within the wider business.
You will also support the team in ensuring all pricing and promotion requirements are actioned on a daily and weekly basis to ensure the smooth transition from planning to go live.
Key aspects of the role
- Working collaboratively with the wider business to support the day to day planning and trading activities.
- Updating pricing on a daily basis in line with trading team requirements.
- Utilising multiple systems to create promotions in line with business trading requests.
- Updating the weekly promotion file and share this with the wider business.
- Being the point of contact for all pricing and promotion queries.
- Actioning various admin requests from the trading teams to support ongoing BAU activities.
- Being a point of contact for admin queries from the trading teams and wider business and follow them through to resolution.
- Produce and distribute business reporting in a timely manner at various points of the trading cycle, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly.
- Keeping the Trade Planning Calendars up to date with a forward planned view of activity.
About you
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently and flexibly.
- Good communication and listening skills.
- Has previous experience working with Excel.
- A positive and proactive attitude to work.
- Ability to work calmly under pressure to tight deadlines.
- Organised, focused and hardworking approach.
- Keen to develop knowledge and skills.
About Matalan
From humble beginnings to disruptive innovations in the retail industry, find out about how Matalan is ever-evolving here.
We know as a team, we are stronger together – we champion equality for all and make lasting connections that go beyond work. We thrive off our inclusive culture, encouraging our colleagues to bring their true selves to work and contributing to collective creativity, open-mindedness and growth.
We want give every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the application and interview process and then ultimately in their role. If you require any adjustments during our recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know.
In the event that a high volume of suitable applications are received, the post may close prior to the specified closing date. Please apply as soon as possible if interested.
Benefits
In addition to competitive salaries, we also offer the below core benefits:
- 20% staff discount, which increases with length of service
- Thrive Recognition Scheme
- Wellbeing support provided by the Retail Trust
- Life Assurance
- Retail Rewards platform offering discounts for other retailers
- Pension Scheme
- Access to a wide range of career development
- Additional benefits may apply depending on your role and area of the business
