Retail Merchandising Assistant

What You'll Be Doing

Are you detail‑focused, organised, and ready to grow your merchandising career in a truly distinctive setting? As a Merchandising Assistant at the House of Commons, you’ll play an integral part in ensuring our retail operations run smoothly, supporting the Retail Merchandising Manager across a wide range of analytical, administrative, and product‑related tasks. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a retail offer that represents the heritage and work of UK Parliament.

This role is offered on a hybrid working basis, with an expectation of you spending 40% of your time in the office.

• Generous annual leave starting at 30 days and increasing to 35 after one full working year.
• Enrolment in the excellent Civil Service pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Flexible working options that help you find a balance including enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave, caring leave and alternative working patterns.

• Experience of delivering excellent customer service to a broad and diverse customer base while upholding the principles of diversity, equality, and inclusion.
• Proven experience in an administrative/merchandising role as part of a commercial team, ideally within Retail and/or the heritage or tourism sector.
• Comfortable working in high‑pressure situations, with a record of efficiently managing multiple tasks and large workloads.

• CV & Application
  - If you would like to apply for this role, please submit an application providing evidence against criteria 1-4 in the Job Description.

More information on the application process can be found here:
Application process - UK Parliament.

We may close the vacancy prior to the closing date stated due to a high volume of applications.