Category Planning Manager

4 weeks ago

Bracknell, Bracknell Forest, United Kingdom ENGINEERINGUK Full time
About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a Category Strategy Manager to join the Commercial Planning team and be a key member of the Category Proposition Group Leadership team. As a Category Strategy Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the Head of CPG in developing an ambitious yet realistic 1-3 year commercial plan for the CPG, which defines the priority areas for investment and other areas of focus in support of the overarching 1-3 year Commercial and Customer strategic Plan.

Key Responsibilities
  • Deliver specific projects in support of delivering the overall CPG plan, bringing together data and insight to create clear Category strategy plans and regularly review progress against both the overall CPG plan and the individual category strategies.
  • Act as the voice of the customer in the CPG team, keeping up-to-date with market trends, competitor and supplier activity, and ensuring that Waitrose performance is understood and held to account against this context.
  • Work as part of the category management team to embed the new thinking on category roles and new commercial performance tool outputs into the category management process, with a focus on continuous improvement.
What You'll Be Doing
  • Work with the CPG leadership team to develop the 1-3 year commercial plan for the CPG, including the priority areas for investment, category strategy, COGs, and efficiency, and deliver against clearly defined targets.
  • Closely track performance against this plan and coordinate necessary inflight actions.
  • Use the Category Roles Framework and Category Strategy process, as well as input from the lever owners, to create clear and deliverable multi-year Category Strategies across the levers, which deliver improved performance against customer and commercial metrics.
  • Steer cross-functional teams of 20+ people on each category strategy project, ensuring they deliver against stretching customer and commercial targets with clear ownership and accountability of all required actions and follow-up, benefits tracking, and corrective action taken where necessary.
  • Partner with Commercial Managers and Value Chain Analysis team to ensure that Category strategies are supported by forward-thinking and deliverable supplier strategies, which deliver sufficient COGs efficiencies.
  • Use data and analytics from multiple sources, including Customer Insight, BrandView, ShopperI, Kantar, Business Objects, and suppliers, to build strategies that mesh all insight together to win with customers and deliver commercial targets.
  • Support Range Reviews and other lever deep-dive activities within Category Teams, where appropriate, and collectively drive improvements in assortment and space KPIs, including performance density, line density, and in-shop efficiencies.
  • Support the Space team, leveraging the data and insights for category reviews, but also day-to-day operational improvements, ensuring the direction and integrity of the 'strategy' remains on track over the 1-3 years.
  • Ensure the continuous improvement of the Category strategy process, leveraging best practice and input from suppliers, where appropriate, and incorporating the latest thinking from lever owners.
  • Partner with the insight and analytics teams to ensure that we are using data and insight in strategy formulation and decision-making with ever-increasing sophistication.
  • Be the best practice insight/analytics champions in Trading, role-modeling and coaching so that the Trading division is continuously upskilled in its use of data and analytics.
  • Focused ad-hoc Category support, where required.
Essential Skills
  • Experience in strategy development, ideally in a retail or commercial environment.
  • Senior Buying or Category management experience or commercial equivalent.
  • Financial acumen with very high numeracy, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
  • Extensive experience with stakeholder management and influencing.
  • Comfortable with presenting and skilled in data storytelling.
Benefits of the Partnership and the Role
  • Hybrid Working.
  • Full-time working holiday entitlement, 25 days holiday, plus public and bank holidays.
  • Excellent work-life balance, including focus on well-being and flexible working and our market-leading equal parenthood leave policy.
  • Defined Contribution pension scheme, where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay), and, after three years' service, you'll receive an additional Partnership contribution of 4% of pay, regardless of whether you pay in or not.
  • You'll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete your Earning Membership, that's 25% off in John Lewis & Partners (12% off electrical products) and 20% in Waitrose & Partners.
  • Simple cycle to work support scheme.
  • Health Care cover.
  • Car allowance.
  • We're really proud of our exclusive hotels based in some of Britain's most stunning areas, and you're welcome to explore them from day 1.
Next Steps
  • The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions.
  • Once you've submitted an application, the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a 1-stage virtual interview.
  • You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process.

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