Merchandising
Latest roles - Merchandising
Assistant Merchandiser - Cook (Food Preparation and Bake)
Latest roles - Merchandising
Assistant Merchandiser - Cook (Food Preparation and Bake)
Assistant Merchandiser - Celebrations (Parental leave cover)
Working in Merchandising
The Merchandising team are organised, flexible, adaptive and reactive to risks and opportunities that arise daily/weekly, all whilst working in a fast paced & fun environment. Working extremely closely with the buying team and supply base, the merchandising team plan and develop a strategy to enable Tesco to sell a range of products that deliver sales and profit targets. The team also work alongside the demand planning team, managing stock levels in line with targets.
Merchandising is about planning and developing the strategies that allow Tesco to sell the right range of products to deliver sales and profit, whilst managing stock levels in line with targets. It's often explained as getting the right product, in the right place, at the right time, with the right quantities and at the right price.
Our Merchandisers are responsible for planning and managing sales, reacting to trade and making logical, commercial business decisions with the customer at the forefront of their minds. They look for opportunities for multiple seasons across multiple channels, while planning the next seasons range to be delivered on time and managing a special buy promotional programme alongside to achieve all business KPI’s. The role never gets boring, especially factoring in unexpected market challenges!
Our location
Pear – Welwyn Garden City
Pear – Welwyn Garden City
This building name is inspired by the project name used during our 2003 acquisition of T & S Stores. Many of these stores were converted to our Express format to help us to build our convenience offer for customers. Our General Merchandise, Supply Chain and Operations teams are based here and there is a restaurant and bicycle parking.
Omega – Welwyn Garden City
This building name is inspired by the pioneering work of the team which developed Clubcard – one of the most important retail innovations of the 20th century. Our Marketing, Communications, Tesco Mobile, Hospitality and Business Development teams are based here and there is bicycle parking, a car wash and fuel pump.
Smile – Welwyn Garden City
This building's name is inspired by Eat Happy which started life with the project name Smile and takes education out of the classroom to show children where their food comes from. Our Human Resources Team is based here and there is a restaurant, bicycle parking and dry cleaning drop off service. This is also the location of our colleague Health and Wellness centre where colleagues can access massage therapists, GP services and beauticians.
Checkout – Welwyn Garden City
This building name is inspired by Operation Checkout, one of our most iconic price campaigns. During an economic downturn in the UK in 1977, we launched massive price cuts to help customers on very tight budgets. Our Food and Quality teams are based here and this is our main building with a restaurant, gym, bicycle parking and showers, dry cleaning drop off service, colleague baby room, cash machine, car charging and post box.
Plus – Welwyn Garden City
This building is inspired by one of our most innovative technology projects – Plus. In 1987 we introduced our first computerised tills to scan products. Our Technology team are based here and there is a restaurant, bicycle parking, dry cleaning drop off service, Click and Collect for Tesco Direct products and post office facilities.
Snowball – Welwyn Garden City
This building's name is inspired by 72 year-old Jane Snowball, who used a television remote to order groceries while sat in her armchair at home. What she and others didn’t realise at the time was that this was the world’s first home online shopping trip. Our Business Support, Customer Fulfillment and Online teams are based here and there is a restaurant, bicycle parking and showers, dry cleaning drop off service and cash machine.
Highwoods – Welwyn Garden City
This building's name is inspired by our first ‘out of town’ destination food store, ‘Colchester Highwoods’. Our Pensions, Property, and Maintenance & Engineering teams are based here.
Maldon – Welwyn Garden City
This building's name is inspired by our first self-service supermarket which opened in a converted cinema in Maldon in 1956. Our Finance, Procurement and Legal and Security teams are based here and there is a restaurant, bicycle parking, and dry cleaning drop off service, as well as it being the location for our Grocery Click and Collect service.
Strawberry - Farringdon
This building's name is inspired by the strawberry icon used by Tesco.com shoppers when we launched online shopping in the late 1990s. Our Digital team is based here.
The Nicholl Building - Dundee Customer Engagement Centre
This building's name was inspired by Mrs Nicholl, a 93 year-old customer who was moved to tears by excellent customer service from Tesco when two colleagues hand-delivered her groceries during bad weather as a ‘wee gift from Tesco’. We have a restaurant, bicycle parking, showers, Click & Collect service, cash machine, garden and games area, as well as colleague kitchens and rest areas on each floor.
Heart - Welwyn Garden City
Our building at the heart of the Welwyn Garden City Campus is now open, providing a new and exciting central hub with flexible spaces to learn, collaborate and innovate. There are facilities for well-being, a customer experience centre and a Tesco Express store.
Working in Welwyn Garden City
Our campus sits just 10 minutes walk from the centre of Welwyn Garden city with its many shops, restaurants, pubs and sports facilities. Close to the A1 and with frequent trains running to Kings Cross in as little as 26 minutes (free shuttle buses take you between the station and office) the campus is well connected to the surrounding area.
