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- Last updated: Tuesday, 18 October
- Adoos Reference: 90341
- Location:
South East
Description
Avebury’ is what we call our head office. Based in Milton Keynes it’s the nerve centre of the business’ activities including Retail Operations, Finance, Buying/Merchandising, E-Commerce, Marketing and Supply Chain. With a role here you’ll be helping to shape our customers’ retail experience and drive our business to greater success. The Merchandise department source the products we stock and ensure the customer gets what they want at a good value price. In reality it’s a complex division split into 5 key functions, Trading (including Buying) who work out what the customer wants, Direct Importing who ensure the delivery of new products from the around the world, Technical Services & Quality who check that all the products we stock are fit for purpose, Central Stock and Merchandise Data Support .
Further to an internal promotion, there now exists an exciting opportunity within Homewares and Furniture for a dynamic, forward thinking Merchandise Planner who wants to make a difference. The main objective of this role is to assist the Trading Manager and Buying Teams in delivering sales and profit targets through effective management of supplier and depot availability. Key areas of accountability are managing weekly stock performance, planning ranges for future catalogues, liaising with the Direct Import team, ordering domestic product, working closely with Internal Stock Control to ensure store serviceability is met and managing and developing your team. In particular though, we are looking for an individual who can balance the day job with a strong vision of how we best manage through the period of change and challenge that is coming through RACO, taking on Extra ownership and the increasing challenges around a high DI/DS participation.
Your in-depth knowledge of planning and trading in multi-channel retailing will come to the fore in this role. You’ll be using your strong interpersonal skills when communicating with senior managers and running a team. Educated to degree standard or similar, you have at least five years’ merchandising or planning experience with a blue-chip retailer, with at least one year in a relatively senior position.
Besides real scope for individuality and excellent career development prospects, Argos offers highly competitive rewards and benefits, including generous pension schme, 24 days holiday, an immediate 10% discount on all Argos products and after three months a 20% discount at Homebase.