Assistant Category Merchandiser

Assistant Category Merchandiser
London
Currys London Campus at Waterloo
Permanent
Full Time
Grade 3

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology.

As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

As an Assistant Category Merchandiser, you'll play a key role in driving the Essentials and Sold With category performance by supporting the delivery of sales, margin, stock, and availability targets. Working closely with Merchandising, Buying, Distribution, Planning, and external suppliers, you'll help ensure the right products are in the right place at the right time, identifying risks and supporting actions to keep performance on track.

Job description:

Assistant Category Merchandiser
London
Currys London Campus at Waterloo
Permanent
Full Time
Grade 3

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology.

As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

As an Assistant Category Merchandiser, you'll play a key role in driving the Essentials and Sold With category performance by supporting the delivery of sales, margin, stock, and availability targets. Working closely with Merchandising, Buying, Distribution, Planning, and external suppliers, you'll help ensure the right products are in the right place at the right time, identifying risks and supporting actions to keep performance on track.

As part of this role, you'll be responsible for:

• Monitoring and supporting category performance, driving sales, margin, availability and stock health through effective planning and analysis, while identifying risks and opportunities to keep performance on track.
• Managing stock and supplier performance, ensuring purchase orders, intake plans and deliveries are executed effectively to maximise product availability for customers.
• Providing commercial and operational insight, identifying risks and opportunities, resolving stock issues, and working closely with Buying, Supply Chain and supplier partners to keep the category on track.
• Developing strong supplier relationships to ensure consistent stock availability, proactively managing deliveries and resolving supply issues to minimise disruption.
• Delivering commercial processes effectively, ensuring plans, critical paths and business policies are followed to support successful category performance and operational excellence.

You will need:

• Previous experience as an Assistant Merchandiser.
• Experience with merchandising and planning systems.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and make recommendations that drive sales, profit and stock performance.
• Confident communicator and relationship builder, able to influence stakeholders and collaborate effectively across teams and supplier partners.
• Commercially aware, with a good understanding of customer needs and the ability to balance commercial performance with customer experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and the wider MS Office suite, with experience using data to support decision-making.
• Knowledge of Power BI, with the ability to analyse and present insights to support category performance.

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