Assistant Merchandise Planner Review

Managing the financial/commercial side of a sales sub category under the guidance of a manager, working in conjunction with buying, trade planning, technical and foreign hub based teams. Promo planning, risk/opportunity highlight/managing as you try to help steer the to achieve category kpi's, e.g market share, sales value, profit, stock holding.

Came into the role with limit experience putting any skills into practice within a professional environment. Some skills include: Communication - both external and internal (liaising with multiple teams to ensure a coherent flow of information), excel (experts and courses), time management, people management (expectations for example), creating and giving presentation, data analysis,

Really enjoyed course. Although learning was separate to job, the course was inline with all the skills i needed to improve within my role. The programme allowed me to move departments (and be promoted) at my own pace (before completion) so i wasn't left waiting for it to end.

built in partnership to make the course relevant to my work. course learning started a few months into job to allow time to settle into the role before learning began. Study days allowed me to complete the course comfortably and wasn't left doing a lot of work in my own time.

I received a paid study day once every 2 weeks for 2 years which allowed me to comfortably complete that side of the course. There was also opportunity for a further 10% of my time to be used to upskill, gaining experience from a variety of colleagues both in my category and within other job roles.

Support has always been available from both tesco and Peopleplus. [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions] from peopleplus was always available to answer emails/calls with queries as well as prompt marking, regular development days and the use of conference calls for some additional modules. all feedback was clearly noted so it was easy to understand

The modules are heavily linked to my role and in a fairly logical order. when i first began the modules were around communication forms/types for example which was useful as someone new to the professional world. The course is business and admin related so stretches beyond the entry role (helping me perform in my promoted role also)

There is an apprenticeship and graduate society where lots of events are organised for example networking over breakfasts/ lunch/ dinner, but also talks from local business' and tesco business senior leadership to show their stories and career journey. team rounders has occurred in the summer and i am involved in a tesco football group

Yes

The experience of moving down to welwyn garden city on my own at 18 has been made a lot easier by the supportive and professional teams working within the business. Since then there have been a lot of opportunity for progression as i gain new skills and take on different projects.

Be open minded, i was unsure what the course would involve and wasn't fully sure what the job i was applying for entailed. Be interested, look into what's important to tesco and maybe some key initiatives they have going on for example with the sustainability and packaging project