Merchandise Admin Assistant

The JD Group is now recruiting for a Merchandise Admin Assistant (MAA) to join our Bury Head Office, within the JD Sports Fashion fascia. The MAA is responsible/reports to the Senior MAA.

Looking to start a career in Merchandising? Looking for a Merchandise Admin Assistant role complementing your analytical skills and your passion for numbers? All within a company that wants to help you build your professional career?

If all the answers to these questions are ‘yes’, then you’re the person we’re looking for to join our Merchandising team!

As an MAA, you will create and maintain purchase orders and data and act as a support function to the Merchandising team to achieve optimum efficiency and help maximise profitability across all channels. A great opportunity to start your career in merchandising.

• Job Title – Merchandise Admin Assistant
• Location – JD Group, Hollins Brook Way, Pilsworth, Bury, BL9 8RR.
• Working hours – Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:00pm, 40 hours per week.

Your responsibilities are to:

• Create and maintain purchase orders on the JD system within a specific product area.
• Check and ensure all purchase orders are received by supplier and filed correctly.
• Review all costs, selling prices and VAT within a specific product file, prior to receipt, highlighting to Merchandiser/Assistant Merchandiser and amending as directed.
• Amend pre-allocations as directed by Merchandiser/Assistant Merchandiser.
• Produce price amendments as directed by Merchandiser/Assistant Merchandiser and communicate to Retail.
• Establish collaborative working relationships within teams and across functions.

The ideal candidate

• Passionate about JD, its brands and customer.
• Analytical and passionate about numbers.
• Systems driven, proficient in Excel and other Microsoft Office software.
• Highly organised and strong attention to detail.
• A good communicator able to build relationships with stakeholders and to work across teams.
• Able to take ownership of your work and use your initiative to deliver on your key responsibilities.
• Good teamwork skills, being able to work collaboratively to reach a common goal, sharing information and supporting colleagues.
• Positive, flexible, and responsive to business needs.
• Curious with a continuous learning mindset.

Team Structure

Here at JD, the Merchandising team structure is organised into various departments. Each of the departments have a strong focus in certain areas, such as Apparel, Footwear and Accessories.

There are many opportunities to grow within the different areas and there are also training and development plans in place to support and mentor you in your personal and professional career.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.

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