Do you have a passion for toys and making a difference in a business that is going places?

Ever wanted to have a secret meeting in the Batcave or immerse yourself in Jurassic World? Join us at The Entertainer Head Office and you can do exactly that in our bright character-based meeting rooms!

This position is based at our Head Office in Amersham. You must live within a reasonable distance to the office or be willing to relocate by the role commencement date.

To assist our Merchandiser in all trading, visual merchandising, and planning requirements for our Tesco partnership. You will need to work collaboratively with internal stakeholders including Buying, Product Merchandising, Branch Merchandising teams as well as  Tesco. You will be a self-starter with a strong interest in retail and the drive to work in a fast-paced, commercially driven environment.

Able to work at pace cross-functionally, be highly analytical, super organised, and possess strong multitasking skills with the ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities concurrently. You will be a strong communicator, a great team player with a natural flair for building key relationships. You will be an ambassador and role model for the brand and all partnerships, ensuring that visual merchandising standards and brand presentation are consistently executed.

Skills & Experience
1. Advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint
and Teams.
2. Previous retail head office experience at an admin or merchandising assistant level
would be advantageous.
3. Strong analytical skills and interpreting data and making sound commercial
decisions.
4. A natural ability to build relationships, influence & manage relationships in a cross-functional role.
 

Responsibilities

• Assist Merchandiser in all aspects to drive trade and the delivery of all relevant
• KPI’s – Sales, Ranging, Profitability and stock availability.
•  Be agile, review weekly and in-season trade at sku level including best and worst
• sellers; review and optimise sales utilising key channel trade reports and identify
• risk and opportunities with proposed actions to the Merchandiser.
•  Ranging; Review with Merchandiser and work collaboratively with Buying and
• Merchandising and Branch Merchandising teams in actioning system ranging and
• deranging for partnerships, taking responsibility for team cascade.
• Planograms; Create seasonal/promotional planograms with a commercial lens.
• New Line Form process: Lead on partnership new line form process for all
• partnership web channels working collaboratively with internal web team and
• partnership external teams to execute newness in a timely way.

As an employee at The Entertainer, your amazing benefits will include:

- Birthday Leave plus 33 days of holiday (including Bank Holidays)

- Annual Bonus scheme

- Retail Trust & Virtual GP

- Pension salary sacrifice

- Flexible access to your pay via Wage Stream 

- Generous toy discount

- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

- High Street and leisure discounts

- Cycle to work scheme.                      

- Life Cover

So, if you've got a passion for toys and making a difference in a business that is going places, apply now!