Critical Path Assistant

4 weeks ago

Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Asda Full time

Job Title:
Critical Path Assistant

Location:
Asda House

Employment Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Hours Per Week: 37.5

Salary:

Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category:
Buying

Closing Date: 2 July 2024


We are recruiting for a Critical Path Assistant to oversee the GM Critical Path Process and escalate issues when resolution is proving difficult.


"Everything about Asda"
We are a values-led organisation. As such we, encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.


Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month.

We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.


"Everything you'll love "
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Hybrid and flexible working - everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda have it on point. (2/3 days office working)
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Discretionary bonus
  • Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts
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Company matched pension
  • Looking forward to the future
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25 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays
  • Making sure you take time for your self and switch off
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13 paydays a year - who doesn't love an extra payday?
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Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions
  • Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us
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Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year - really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year
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Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business. (Link to grad scheme on Asda page)
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Free city centre parking - you can also use it outside working hours

Plus much more

_ "That's more like it"_

"Find your role"

  • Build and maintain all Critical Paths on the GM modular range change system.
  • Facilitate amendments to GM Critical Paths
  • Monitor weekly cannonball process:
  • Provide relevant challenges to delegates (Inc Grade B's)
  • Produce timely and accurate minutes of the sessions.
  • Improve efficiency of the cannonballs and outputs to give teams back as much time as possible.
  • Liaise with Store Retail Operations Business Partners between sessions to ensure successful resolution of issues
  • To support the GM Range Change Critical Path Manager in ensuring the hrs for activity are correct and updating relevant teams with any issues /amends
  • Support all teams to ensure all milestones are met on time.
  • Update the GM Senior Leadership Team with the status of range changes and ensure accurate information is presented in the board report.
  • Reduce the complexity of documentation to allow one best way of working. Use relationships within Central Planning to develop systems to achieve this.
  • Investigate with GM Critical Path Manager new Project Management tools to provide improvements and simpler documentation.
  • Manage, facilitate and present training courses on GM modular range change system, CP and RCCS
  • Facilitate autopsy sessions on all Critical Paths including all GM functions at all levels to improve implementation of ranges.
  • Contribute to successful range exit by processing markdowns through our Markdown Optimization tool (MDO), working with the category teams to ensure the right products are marked down in the right stores, at the right time. Initially this will focus on restrictions, with the opportunity to manage deleted items as the rollout of this project continues.
  • OD 500 GM lines: twice yearly data trawl and review. Timeline for completion to teams and publishing of data, documents for completion.
  • Range document control for range creation, liaison with commercial/ wider Business Support teams teams on input and ability to use for 3RD Party Suppliers.
"
Let's find out about you"

  • Excellent communication, organisational and influencing skills effective at all levels of the business
  • A commitment to team work
  • A commitment to attention to detail & getting things right, every day
  • Plenty of initiative
  • A talent for thinking analytically and creatively
  • Excellent PC skills including Excel
  • Passion for the customer
  • The confidence to challenge and influence people
  • Ideally have an understanding of critical path & merchandising processes
  • The ability to organise, prioritise and work well under pressure to tight deadlines
  • Experience in training
  • A high degree of self motivation and autonomous working
- "_
_Find your everything at Asda" - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach._
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