Associate - Merchandising Assistant

**Company Description** Tesco Bengaluru**

We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.

At Tesco Business Solutions, we have a mission to simplify, scale & partner to serve our customers, colleagues and suppliers through a best-in-class intelligent Business Services model. We do this by building a world class business services model by executing services model framework right at the heart of everything we do for our worldwide customers. The key objective is to implement and execute service model across all our functions and markets consistently. The ethos of business services is to, free-up our colleagues from a regular manual operational work. We use cognitive technology to augment our key decision making. We also built a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture across functions to drive bottom-up business efficiencies by optimising processes. Business services colleagues need to act as a business partner with our group stakeholders to build a collaborative partnership driving continuous improvement across markets and functions to lead the best customer experience by serving our shoppers a little better every day.

At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone's Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.

Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues, who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

To support the Tesco Merchandisers with Order confirmations to enable raising of accurate and on time Purchase orders by partnering with suppliers and play a crucial role in supporting the merchandising team to ensure the successful planning, development, and execution of product assortments.
Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:

- Responsible for completing tasks and transactions within agreed KPI's
- Knows and applies fundamental work theories/ concepts/ processes in own areas of work
- Consulting the Merchandising managers and raising the Order confirmations based on negotiations and initiate them with the supplier
- Assist in maintaining optimal stock levels by monitoring inventory turnover and replenishment needs
- Analyse sales data and trends to identify best-selling and underperforming products on weekly basis
- Communicate with suppliers and vendors to track order status, lead times, and delivery schedules
- Participate in assortment planning meetings and provide input on product selection, assortment composition, and assortment range
- Assist in setting competitive pricing based on market research and profit margin objectives
- Generate purchase orders and work with the Ordering team to ensure timely product replenishment
- Maintain accurate records of inventory levels, sales data, and supplier communications
- Generate regular reports and provide insights to the merchandising team
- Responsible for uploading order confirmations and exporting Purchase orders into various Tesco systems and investigate PO failures and drive on time resolution
- Assist Merchandising Managers with data and insights around the purchase orders raised and their statuses to enable them with effective stock planning

**Qualifications**
- Any graduate with Merchandising/supply chain experience (1 year) would be preferred
- Planning and Organizing
- Collaborating & Partnering
- Ownership & Accountability
- Logical Reasoning
- Analytical Ability
- Analyses and Judgement
- Numeracy Skills
- Stakeholder Management
- Proficient Written and Verbal Communication Skills

**Additional Information**
Application Last Date: 22-February-2025

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