market strategy manager

We're looking for a technical data and market strategy manager to join our team here at Starbucks UK. A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired. Where your voice is brewed into everything we do. At Starbucks, we're all about you.

As part of this role, you'll be responsible for leading the strategic direction of market planning and location analytics, driving high-impact decisions across the UK portfolio. This role will own setting the vision and strategy for market planning, overseeing the development of advanced analytics frameworks and guiding our internal and external partners through complex decision making processes.

We'll look to you to bring your proven experience in market planning and real estate analysis with experience using geospatial data sets in a fast paced retail or hospitality environment. We're looking for analytical an strategic thinker with expertise in spotting opportunities to add value and drive the business forward. Being an excellent communicator with the ability to articulate complex information clearly and persuasively to stakeholders at all levels is critical for this role.

About
The best part about this role is that no two days are ever the same Working as our technical data and market strategy manager, you'll get involved in:

• Providing strategic oversight of the new store pipeline, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals and challenging assumptions to drive quality and performance
• Defining and leading the UK market planning strategy, integrating geospatial analytics, demographic trends, and commercial insights to identify optimal growth opportunities
• Leading the development of sophisticated impact assessment tools to evaluate cannibalisation, market saturation, and competitive dynamics
• Utilising data to develop thorough recommendations with associated data tracking and reporting, with a particular focus on spatial datasets and mapping
• Partnering closely with third-party data providers and consultancy partners to ensure access to high-quality, real-time data sources that support dynamic market planning
• Developing and presenting high-impact reports and dashboards to senior leadership, tracking performance against strategic KPIs and influencing investment decisions
• Overseeing site visit protocols and local market assessments, ensuring strategic alignment and commercial viability
• Acting as the primary strategic advisor for market planning to licensees, ensuring alignment and consistency across site selection and approval processes

In return, we'll offer you a competitive salary and benefits that include:

• 25 days holiday a year (plus Bank Holidays)
• Up to 10% bonus
• Flexible benefits – in addition to the benefits listed here we'll also provide you with an additional 4% to allow you to select the benefits that suit you
• Life assurance and private medical insurance for yourself
• Comprehensive training (including coffee knowledge) and access to Starbucks Global Academy (our online learning platform to help continuously develop yourself)
• Free bag of coffee each week and a 30% partner discounts on food, beverages, and merchandise
• Discounts with local and national retailers (cell phones, gym memberships, entertainment tickets, hotels, etc.) through Perks at Work platform
• Subscription to Headspace
• Home Sweet Loan (Interest-free loans that can be paid back over 12 months to help pay your rental deposit)
• Bean stock options for all partners (own part of Starbucks)
• A free 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme available to you and your family

So, if you're looking for a new opportunity, with us you'll be welcomed, you'll be challenged, you'll be inspired. Here you'll be heard. Because here, you're a part of it all. Here you belong.

Starbucks is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All applicants and partners will be treated fairly, without regard to race, religion, sex, nationality, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity and expression.

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