As the Assistant Merchandisers within the production profession you will be accountable for managing the stock availability from suppliers within one or more categories. You will work within a team of merchandisers on maximising the on time deliveries across our new product development and everyday core product lines, as well as identify efficiencies to reduce our supply chain cost.


Main Role Responsibilities

• New product development delivering on time
• Replenishment and stock availability through on time delivery
• Tracks and monitors shipment budgets and cash benefits
• Supports strategic category sourcing plans.
• Support production related claims & charges with Suppliers.
• Post order critical path on new product development.
• Work together with the matrix team to ensure a seamless end to end process
• Complete scorecard evaluation of suppliers influences supplier strategy on a category level
• Negotiates with suppliers on recovery of production related claims or charges
• Support or lead agreement on post order critical paths across new product development to ensure delivery and launch can be fulfilled
• Periodically analysis purchase order performance against budgets and engages teams on risks and opportunities to delivering budgets

• 2-3 years experience in sourcing, order and stock management in FMCG or Branded business
• Independent and self motivated
• Good stakeholder relationships locally and globally, internally and externally
• Exposure working with forecasting and budgets
• Fluent in English and local languages

• Relevant experience in handling home products
• Degree in relevant field e.g. merchandising
• Experience with a similar type of retailer

We support agile working practices across the John Lewis Partnership. If you are looking for flexible working options please discuss this at your interview, as each role will have a differing level of flexibility.

For more details of how our Partners currently work flexibly click here.

Interested parties please click the "APPLY" button to submit your application with full resume including current and expected salary.

The John Lewis Partnership is a visionary and successful way of doing business, boldly putting the happiness of Partners at the centre of everything it does. It's the embodiment of an ideal, the outcome of nearly a century of endeavour to create a different sort of company, owned by Partners dedicated to serving customers with flair and fairness.

All 83,000 permanent staff are Partners who own 51 John Lewis shops across the UK (37 department stores, 12 John Lewis at home and shops at St Pancras International and Heathrow Terminal 2), 348 Waitrose supermarkets (www.waitrose.com), an online and catalogue business, johnlewis.com (www.johnlewis.com), a production unit and a farm. The business has annual gross sales of over £11.5bn. Partners share in the benefits and profits of a business that puts them first.

When our founder, John Spedan Lewis, set up the Partnership, he was careful to create a governance system, set out in our Constitution, that would be both commercial allowing us to move quickly to stay ahead in a competitive industry, and democratic giving every Partner a voice in the business they co-own. His combination of commercial acumen and corporate conscience, so ahead of its time, is what makes us what we are today.

John Lewis began trading in 1864 on London's Oxford Street, and has grown to become the largest omni-channel retailer in the UK. 'Never Knowingly Undersold'​ has been our unique promise to our customers for over 75 years, on quality, service and value. You can trust that we will always stock the best quality products, responsibly sourced. We work hard with all our suppliers to ensure they pay full attention to the well-being of their employees, their communities and the environment in which they're based. This includes using sustainable materials and methods wherever possible, and trading ethically at all times. Our staff (Partners) are highly trained to offer helpful, impartial advice on all products and we provide an excellent after-sales and a great choice of expert services from delivery to installation. We set highly competitive prices for all our products; If we find a national high street competitor offering a better nationwide price for the same individual product, sold with the same service conditions, we'll lower our price to match in all our shops and on our website, including when a competitor is having a sale.

Our John Lewis full-line department stores each typically stock more than 350,000 lines. At JL Oxford Street and Bluewater there’s also a John Lewis Foodhall from Waitrose while Southampton and Watford offer a little Waitrose under one roof. An at home branch is approximately a third of the size of a typical full line department store and sells home and electrical and home technology assortments.