Join Superdrug Head Office- Make a Real Difference Every Day!
Location: East Croydon
Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
Salary: Competitive
Why Superdrug?
Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.
Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.
Here's the exciting bit… A day includes:
Interacting with a variety of stakeholders including suppliers and colleagues across Buying, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Marketing and Stores
Managing promotional activity and loading offers onto our systems
Supporting the business to effectively deliver the end to end promotional process including POS sign off and promotional loading
Assist with the smooth implementation of new product setup, including checking retail and cost prices
Providing accurate reporting for weekly trade and on request
Proactively resolve queries and escalating where necessary
Collaborate with the Marketing team to implement buyer led marketing promotion plans and strategies developed by the buying team which adhere to legislation and brand guidelines
Help with the review and evaluation of the effectiveness of promotions
Producing communications for stores and ensuring teams have the information they need.
Creating reports and analysing data for sales and category meetings.
Supporting the development of more efficient ways of working and helping improve existing processes
Being the go-to person who keeps everything organised and running smoothly behind the scenes
Always seek out fresh ways to work through technology and/or Ai that can boost the business and move things forward.
Actively developing your ability to use AI effectively and think critically about outputs
This job is for you if:
You are health and beauty obsessed and love staying up to date with the latest trends
You’re resilient and would thrive in a fast-paced, everchanging environment
You know you add value through your ability to build great collaborative relationships
You understand the importance of your role in the business and take pride in your attention to detail
You’re ambitious and eager to learn the first step in the buying journey
You are motivated by delivering results and can easily work to deadlines
You get satisfaction though seeing the products for the category you support out on store shelves for our customers to buy
Your adaptable approach means you can easily pick up a new way of working or process
Your curious and can challenge where you see an opportunity for us to do better
Committed to join in, have some fun and celebrate everyone’s hard work
Builds great working relationships based on trust, respect and takes into account others needs
Regularly asks for feedback and uses it to improve and grow
Breaks down problems into smaller, manageable steps for easier resolution.
What you’ll need to succeed
Excellent organisational and communication skills: written and verbal
Excellent attention to detail
Ability to work to deadline and prioritise workload
Able to work both following process and on own initiative
Flexible and adaptable
Team Player
Confident energetic approach
Excellent PC skills – Microsoft Office packages especially Excel
A passion for developing a career in Buying
Here's what's in it for you:
- 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
- 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
- 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
- Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
- Company pension matching and bonus
- We offer Stream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
- We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
- Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
- Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support
- Come and be part of something special!
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