Category Planner
2 weeks ago
At the core of Food for Later is the Category Planning & Ranging team. We are responsible for optimising and delivering the category and overall Food Commercial strategy in Food for Later through key events, secondary space, in the aisle and across channels. Every day we champion our customers, spot new commercial opportunities, and consider the impact on store colleagues to orchestrate a delicate balancing act that drives our team to greater success.
**What you need to do
- Planning and execution of the Food for Later Category Plan
- Support cross functional category teams and teams across other divisions in implementation of Food for Later category workstreams
- Lead our flexible space strategy, performance and execution
- Optimise growth of Food for Later through all channels by building close relationships with the wider business to help you spot opportunities for mutual success
- Work alongside a range of stakeholders from Buyers through to Marketing, Nectar360 and Space teams and external teams in our supply base to implement category strategy
- Lead our relationship with Insights to keep the category team abreast of all customer, market and category knowledge that will impact our strategy or provide new opportunities for growth
- Support Nectar360 & our buying teams to maximise activation that drives performance metrics
- Work with the Head of Category Planning to support ongoing category strategy development, and delivery of key projects
- Support and grow your team by role modelling our valued behaviours, setting clear direction, and coaching them through challenges, with a clear focus on their development and wellbeing Balance week to week performance optimisation with longer term (12 months plus) strategic planning
**What you need to know and show**
- Proven customer-centricity, with a solid foundation in insights across qualitative and quantitative sources, including EPOS & Panel data
- Analytical and hypothesis-led approach to problem solving, capable of interpreting multiple complex sources and communicating the ‘so what?’ simply and impactfully
- Commercially astute with laser-sharp focus on delivering against KPIs
- Excellent stakeholder management, able to build strong relationships across all levels of seniority and deliver through cross-functional teams
- Efficient and organised, thrives off planning and coordinating, with experience of successful project management
- Relentless focus on spotting opportunities for improvement
- Resilient to working with high degree of ambiguity and changing priorities Ability to think strategically and link ideas together with the support of data and analysis
**What decisions I can make including budget**
- Ownership of the Food for later Category plan and process, from conception through to activation in stores Influencing of wider category through insight, analysis and projects
**Directly or indirectly manages**
Team of 2 Category Planners (C4)
**Support we will provide**
- Category expertise through Trading (buyers, range analysts, category assistants, merchandisers, category planners), Supply Chain, Technical & Development
- Corporate, BU, Category and customer insights & tools
- Corporate development offer, both behavioural and technical
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