Digital Merchandising Assistant

Digital Merchandising Assistant
£23,000 – £26,000 plus benefits (Work Level 6B)
Manchester city centre
Hybrid – working from home with 2 days in the office per week
We’re now working in a hybrid way, with colleagues dividing their time between home/remote working and the office. You can find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy

We’re looking for an ambitious digital merchandising assistant to help deliver our exciting new food digital strategy. If you have the administrative experience and 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 category team to implement category strategies across our own website and partner websites, including Deliveroo, Amazon, and Starship. E-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
• spot trends and look for opportunities to reduce costs and improve processes
• implement category strategies specific to each 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 e-commerce
• experience with using and analysing basic data
• 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?

Here you will do work that matters. We are a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit, and you’ll have an opportunity to help us build a stronger Co-op and stronger communities. You’ll also get a package that includes

• competitive salary
• coaching, training, and support to help you develop
• pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• annual incentive scheme
• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service)
• YuLife - an app that rewards you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for many of the UK’s biggest brands
• discounts on Co-op products and services

Building an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

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

Please be aware that we may close applications for this role early