F and F Online Assistant Merchandise Planner
As an Online Assistant Merchandiser Planner, you’ll play a key role in ensuring our online clothing proposition performs brilliantly for customers. Highly organised and data‑driven, you’ll support trading and stock management, deliver accurate reporting, and help shape digital ranging. You’ll also enable smooth, timely online product launches - working collaboratively to drive commercial performance and a seamless customer experience.
You will be responsible for:
1. Reporting & Digital Trade Insights
Creating and distributing daily and weekly online trading reports, highlighting performance, trends and opportunities.
Preparing trade analysis for online MPMs to inform weekly trade meetings and commercial decisions.
Maintaining key trackers, dashboards and KPIs used to track online performance, availability and conversion.
Providing data‑driven insights that support agile trading and risk‑mitigation decisions.
2. Online Range & Enrichment Support
Supporting the online range planning process through data‑led ranging and de‑ranging recommendations.
Collaborating with buying teams to ensure products have complete, accurate attributes, titles, copy and imagery.
Preparing for online range sign‑off and strategy meetings by analysing history, trends and best/worst performance.
Helping coordinate product enrichment and readiness for launch.
3. Online Stock, Availability & Supply Support
Supporting performing reviews, availability analysis and the identification of risks or gaps.
Partnering with supply chain teams to monitor online replenishment, resolve issues and support fulfilment readiness.
Escalating replenishment, availability or allocation issues early to minimise impact on online trading.
4. Digital Critical Path & Launch Coordination
Supporting delivery of the online critical path for launches, promotions and seasonal events.
Monitoring product setup progress and ensuring tasks are completed on time for digital go‑live.
5. Cross‑Functional Collaboration
Working closely with Online & commercial team MPMs/AMPs, Buying, Supply Chain, Marketing, Digital Product and Technology teams.
Contributing insights that support commercial planning, promotion execution and online customer experience.
You will need:
Experience relevant for this job:
Previous merchandising, planning or analytical experience, ideally within eCommerce or multichannel retail.
Strong analytical capability with experience using Excel and digital performance tools.
Ability to interpret commercial and digital data (traffic, conversion, stock, availability, search behaviour).
Operational skills relevant for this job:
Online reporting & data analysis
Digital merchandising / enrichment
Stock & availability monitoring
Critical path coordination
Strong organisational skills
Collaboration across online, supply chain and commercial teams
What's in it for you:
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
About us:
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.
We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.
NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.
We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility
