Franchise Range Planner

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Marks & Spencer Full time

M&S Food is changing, and fast We are undergoing one of the biggest transformations in retailing today to build a bigger, better, fresher food business.

We need motivated people who are ready to bring their whole self to work and give it their all in a fast-paced team committed to being the best. After all, this is not just foodThis is M&S Food.

We are currently recruiting for a Franchise Ambient Range Planner to join the M&S team

Key Accountabilities and Measures
- To ensure the right products are ranged to the right space, in the right stores within agreed timelines through effective project management
- To provide a commercial, customer and supply perspective to range principles whilst ensuring customer needs are met
- Deliver range that makes product areas easy for customers to shop, drive volume sales, margin and support efficient replenishment
- Work collaboratively with partners and internal stakeholders on several Ambient ranges in core displays within agreed timelines

Category Ranging
- Responsible for several categories in Franchise; owning and communicating the ranging strategy for those categories, driving performance through effective utilisation of range to reflect customer mission and seasonality, delivering ranging within critical path
- With the Commercial Managers, driving franchise partner performance whilst managing each partner’s requirements e.g. BP contract, CQUIN & HRS (health legislation for Hospitals).
- Achieve range targets, ensuring we optimise sales & operations efficiency: Customer need states met, ease of shop, operations, supply, waste and product margins
- Analyse multiple sources of commercial data (financial, customer, competition and market) to help inform and implement ranging improvements
- Coordinate across SRD, categories, partners, supply and Retail teams to create and deliver category action plans.
- Provide range related management performance information, at varying levels of granularity, including: Stocking point and planogram level - helping identify further opportunity for range enhancements

Stakeholder Engagement
- Work with the Franchise Commercial Managers to lead & drive consistency across ranging principles, data analysis and communication & engagement
- Engage with Franchise Supply Chain team on range changes within requirements of the agreed critical path
- Hold Display team accountable to maximising and measuring micro space opportunities of core category ranges
- Inform and update Franchise Partners of ongoing range activity affecting their stores, and incorporating their feedback as part of the planning process
- Engage with Retail teams and Heads of Retail to ensure SRD strategy is being implemented in stores, and franchise partner feedback is being incorporated as part of the planning process

Key Skills
- Excellent project management with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy
- Excellent ranging analysis, interpretation and problem-solving skill
- Enthusiastic and keen to challenge established ways of working in the pursuit for improved process
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Suite including Microsoft Excel and Power BI
- Knowledge of the Space Range, Display, NPD, Supply Chain and Procurement processes and critical paths
- Food Analytics Query Tool (Business Objects)
- JDA Suite Including: Space Planning, and Intactix Knowledge Database

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.

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