Assistant Commercial Planner

4 months ago

London, United Kingdom M&S Full time

**Summary**

As M&S accelerates the transformation of the business to deliver a full global range, we have an exciting new opportunity in the International within a new Buying and Merchandising team. A key strategic initiative is to change the way we work to deliver a new “push” buying model. We are looking for someone who is passionate about product, has a great commercial acumen and can be agile to work at pace within a small team.
**All the details**

**What's in it for you**

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - becoming a part and playing your part. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special
- 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
- A first-class welcome to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development. Having options to progress is something we’re proud of at M&S.
- Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal objectives.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website. Including GymSave - that offers up to 25% off Gym Memberships and the option to become an M&S Shareholder using our ShareSave & ShareBuy Schemes
- Charity Volunteer Day - A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
- A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
- Every colleague at M&S has access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support - this includes access to our 24/7 Virtual GP, PAM Assist to support you & your family as well as many other schemes

**What you'll do**

As an Assistant Commercial Planner you will contribute to the growth of our International Clothing & Home business using a new Push Model, through the effective planning, buying, and trading of a global product range we need to ensure we deliver the profitability targets for M&S including our Franchise Partners.

You will work closely with the International Merchandising and Buying teams to deliver key targets across Clothing and Home and our Franchise Partners, Plan, Buy, Move and Trade our global seasonal range to support in delivering the buying and merchandising accountabilities of our new International Franchise Model.

Promoting a global mindset within the business to ensure the needs of our International customers are put first and our partners budgets are delivered.
- Understand and manage the seasonal critical path and the commercial trading calendar to ensure the team is on track to deliver all the milestones
- Analyse and present “Lessons Learnt” using sales and orderbook data to identify all product opportunities to support building the future strategy to optimise sales and profit
- Own grading plan for the push model stores
- Own sales plan and stock management of NOOS and Core Essentials lines
- Use a range plan tool to drive out the optimal options aligned to key financial budgets
- Manage the buy sheet for each Partner updating line detail once catalogue is selected. Maintaining buy chart with changes post catalogue closure
- Track end to end fulfilment of full seasonal orderbooks, monitor priority line fulfilment, highlighting risks and proposing alternatives where required
- Analyse and present weekly trade updates to the team and share with relevant stakeholders

**Who you are**
- Strong commercial acumen & planning skills
- Numerical, analytical, and interpretive skills
- Proactive, positive approach and ability to flourish working in a fast-paced agile team
- Creative problem-solving abilities
- Ability to initiate and build strong relationships with key stakeholders, with strong communication, influencing, and organisational skills.
- Confident with Excel and PowerPoint
- Able to fully utilise relevant IT systems IBT, Power BI, Digital Range Builder, Range Planner.

**Everyone's Welcome**

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’re an in-person business and have core collaboration days in our Support Centre each week. For most teams, this is 3 working days where we come together to collaborate, innovate, and serve our customers brilliantly.

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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