Digital Merchandising Assistant
£24,500 - £28,000 plus benefits (Work Level 6B)
Manchester city centre, in this role you'll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and coming into the office at least twice a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).
We're looking for a Digital Merchandising Assistant to help deliver our exciting new food digital strategy. If you have the administrative experience and the keen eye for detail we need, we can offer you the chance to build a career and develop your skills with a business that's using digital to make a difference in communities across the UK.
In this role, you'll support our Digital Merchandising Manager in improving the online shopping experience for our members and customers. We'll look to you to work with your partner team to implement category strategies across the platform. Q-commerce is an increasingly significant part of our business, and it's a high-profile, fast-paced area to work in. And with so much exciting change happening, it's never been a better time to join Co-op.
What you'll do
- Support the digital merchandising manager with day-to-day admin tasks
- Use a range of internal and external market data to support the building and development of online pricing and promotional strategies
- Implement category strategies specific to your platform
- Work across several areas of responsibility including ranging, pricing, promotions, merchandising, and search optimisation
- Contribute to activity planning through product nominations
- Support key partnerships with suppliers
- Collate and build reports and analyse data and insight to drive actions day-to-day
This role will suit people who have
- A passion and interest for Q-commerce
- Experience with using and analysing basic data with a keen eye for detail
- Good organisational and prioritisation skills
- Great relationship building skills and the ability and confidence to work cross-functionally
- A good understanding of food retail
Why Co-op?
If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).
- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.
Building a diverse environment
We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process
You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing
Please note that we may close applications for this role early.
As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes.