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Join Superdrug Head Office
- Make a Real Difference Every Day!

Location: East Croydon
Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
Salary: Competitive

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.
Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver that Superdrug feeling.

Ensuring that department, business and cross-functional strategies are explored and implemented through category analysis and planning
Collaborating with and challenging the buying teams in making commercially-sound decisions relating to stock, that maximise sales, margin and income, whilst minimising risk.

• Planning the optimal range/assortment by store group, alongside the buying team and working with Visual Planners to bring these to life on planograms
• Preparing key performance reports and ad hoc analyses to aid decision making
• Owning and managing the range review process ensuring the critical path is adhered to
• Managing the category stock budgets, ensuring the quality of stock is constantly reviewed and optimised
  
  Effectively managing discontinued lines out of the business, minimising any margin impact
• Helping ascertain and support the strategic direction for space and agreeing the associated budget impacts
• Setting customer focused merchandising principles, ensuring fixture is right for the category & the business guidelines
• Analysing trials and initiatives to provide clear insights and proactively suggest next steps
• Undertaking various other tasks for the role, and where required, to support others within the merchandising team
• Undertaking other business projects as and when required, liaising with departments including commercial, finance, data insights, marketing, supply chain, property and store operations
  
  Generates detailed customer focused initiatives, in line with the logistics strategy and supports with execution
• Listens to the customer and implements new ideas and ways of working which are designed to improve service considering both Online and Offline
• Ensures the team priorities actions which delight the customer/team member

• You can work effectively and efficiently in an ever-changing environment
• You enjoy delving into performance and behaviours/insights to drive strategies and decisions
• You know you add value through collaborative working, and ensuring people feel engaged
• You understand how important ‘right stock, right place, right time’ is to retail businesses
• You are adept at looking at the bigger picture
• You can easily adapt to new environments, and working with many different stakeholders
• You get satisfaction through realising your strategies and seeing the results.
• Establishes strong relationships at all levels
• Can manage tough/complex messages with all stakeholders
• Role model collaboration to the team to exceed goals
• Positive attitude towards feedback, uses this to generate initiatives to meet/exceed expectations, and shares feedback in a meaningful way
• Effectively manages their team by playing to strengths and proactively addressing its opportunities. Ensuring everyone wellbeing & diversity is considered and celebrated
• Feels empowered to challenge across different career bands and roles. Supporting other team members in shaping their work to do so
• Proactively keeps up to date with market and consumer trends in their specialism and feeds this into department strategy
• Uses data and insights to challenges the status quo to keep us ahead of the competition
• Uses data to inform and generate new ideas…