We’re the UK's number one choice for homewares – we’re ambitious about our brand, about being a good company, and about profitable growth.
With 13 million active customers in the last 12 months, we offer over 85,000 products, including our own Dorma and Fogarty brands, across 200+ stores. We operate the UK’s largest Made to Measure factory for curtains and roman blinds. We’re also developing products to help customers live more sustainably by introducing new materials and circular design and broadening our Conscious Choice product lines.
Our purpose is ‘to help create the joy of truly feeling at home, for now and for generations to come.’ We have three ambitions: ‘ambitious about our brand’, ambitious about being a good company’, and ‘ambitious about profitable growth’. We’re focused on growing as the number one choice for home, furniture and more, loved by our customers shopping more frequently in a fast-moving, post-pandemic environment.
Central Merchandise Team
The Central Merchandising team plays a key role in all stages of the product lifecycle, taking on the tasks that require a consistent approach so are better completed Centrally.
Our shared values of 'act like owners', 'keep listening and learning', 'long term thinking', and 'stronger together' help ensure we are always finding better ways of doing things and spending our time focusing on what’s important.
The following behaviours are some examples of how these values materialise for Central Junior Merchandiser at Dunelm.
- Developing relationships that help build mutual success.
- Making decisions with integrity, in line with our purpose and values
- Coming up with ideas or improvements - everyone can have a business changing idea.
- Enjoying the opportunity to take ownership and do the right thing.
- Seeing tasks through to completion and delivering on promises, asking for support as you need it.
- Being committed and wanting to do your best for others.
- Having a ‘can do’ mindset, being optimistic and determined about the challenges ahead.
- Having courage to speak up when you see things that could be improved.
What you'll be doing
The Central Junior Merchandiser plays a vital role in the Commercial team structure. You will be the main point of contact for the Buying and Merchandise teams when they need to upload or change data in our systems.
You will support the assistant’s development and work as a team to complete all daily tasks on time.
You are an expert on key processes and understand the impact data changes can make on the wider business. You will make sure data changes do not impact our Stores, Warehouses or Customers in a negative way.
Day to Day responsibilities include
- Ensuring data is correctly maintained in Sunflower and uses have the appropriate access for their role.
- Supporting the uploading of new products through accurate Article Creates
- The maintenance of Master Data in SAP through the change request process.
You will have a specialist Project area to own, working independently and completing alongside your day-to-day responsibilities. This could include managing the Critical Path for new launch lines or updating the till product lists for our Pausa coffee shops.
What we'll look for in you
- A Strong Central Junior Merchandiser will take Pride in their work and have a ‘Right first time’ approach to the daily tasks presented to them.
- You will Build professional expertise in the core daily tasks becoming an expert in SAP, Sunflower, and other systems to help others to make the right decisions.
- Use the project to become a real expert in that area, with the ability to challenge the commercial teams where they fall behind and ensure they keep true to their promises.
- It can get busy during peak so you will need to manage Timelines/ deadlines and prioritise tasks.
- You will need to be organised with a can-do attitude.
- You will see tasks through to completion and deliver on promises, asking for support as you need it.
- We're seeking a candidate who actively contributes ideas and improvements—because anyone can spark a game-changing innovation!
