At TJX, the partnership between merchandising and buying teams is crucially different. Collaborating daily, the teams develop in store and e-commerce strategies designed to excite our customers.
Merchandising takes an entrepreneurial approach to planning and trading to drive business, while our buyers constantly seal the best deals by securing new opportunities in the marketplace. The merchant skills overlapping both functions provides the dynamic flexibility that helps us deliver exceptional value to our customers. Learn more about our Merchandising and Buying career path.
Start date: Feb 2025, or July 2025
Location: Watford
Duration: 12 weeks training, followed by a full-time role in Merchandising
Here’s what you’ll need in order to join our diverse and committed team.
Educated to degree level in any discipline
As well as a passion for our business and retail
The ability to understand what makes commercial success
Always putting the customer first
Strong numerical skills are required
You'll need to be able to work well in a team, and get the best out of those around you
As well as the confidence to share your opinions with others
You must be a proactive individual with the ability to use your initiative to drive the business
A willingness to take risks, make mistakes and learn along the way
European language skills are a real plus – particularly business-level German or Italian
To ensure we attract and retain the best talent, we offer a range of great benefits to all employees. Your exact salary and benefits package will be discussed with you at the offer stage of the application process. However, all associates will receive:
These apply to products in our stores and online. You’ll also have access to multiple double discount weekends.
We give generous holiday allowances relevant to your location. The number of days will rise as you spend more time with us.
When you join us, you’ll be entitled to become a member of the Company Pension Scheme. We’ll share more information about this when you start.
You’ll receive ongoing learning and development opportunities and support throughout your career at TJX.
You can get interest free season ticket support relevant to your location.
We recognise that moving to another country can be daunting, so we’ll help you make that transition easier by providing support if you’re relocating from outside of the UK.
We offer paid paternity, maternity, shared parental and adoption leave.
You’ll have access to join an onsite gym and discounted sessions/classes throughout the UK.
When you join the programme, you’ll be part of a diverse cohort from a variety of backgrounds. Following a comprehensive induction, your journey here will begin as an allocation analyst in the merchandising team, learning how to analyse and trade your business. You’ll experience the importance of the merchandising and buying partnership and how they work together to deliver value to our customers both in-store and online.
You’ll gain broad experience of the merchandising function by working in different product areas, developing your entrepreneurial skills, building strong relationships and learning from the experts. All of which will prepare you for the exciting challenges ahead.
Meet some of our associates who’ve experienced our graduate programmes and hear their stories about life at TJX Europe.
One of the reasons the graduate IT programme stood out was because of the immersive nine-week engineer cohort training. This was very insightful as I got to learn new practices like agile methodology and new software for Full-Stack understanding. This was encouraging as it showed TJX really cared about my learning and development.
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Curiosity, learning and collaboration are three things which I wholeheartedly believe make this company work so well.
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TJX has been a fantastic place to start my career; they really encourage personal development and learning in a supportive environment where I always feel valued.
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The culture at TJX is great; everyone is very friendly and I always feel supported during my training. They have given me the opportunity to work on new technologies.
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I’ve grown my knowledge and skills considerably within the year I have worked at TJX and I continue to receive incredible support and encouragement from my peers.
Read moreOur merchandising function is full of opportunity. In addition to our core merchandising teams, you could join our store merchandising, e-commerce and merchandising development teams.
We’re a flexible European business, so once you’ve developed your career in merchandising, you could go on to be a buyer – or move into other areas of business that excite you. Opportunities extend across our European offices, so language skills are always an asset.
The Merchandising & Buying career path
Our brand new campus in Watford has been created to fit our culture and inspire and encourage teamwork.
