Primary Planner

**Job Title**: Primary Planner
***Location**: Asda House
***Employment Type**: Full time
***Contract Type**: Permanent
***Hours Per Week**: 37.5
***Salary**:
Competitive salary plus benefits.

**Category**: Business Planning
***Closing Date**: 28 April 2025

**“Everything about Asda”**

We are a values-led organisation. As such we, encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone’s input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

**Asda Primary Logistics**

Asda Primary Logistics is a commercial and service function that is part of Asda Logistics Services

Primary operations plan, execute and manage over 3000 loads of suppler stock into our Asda Depots per week. We carry 70% of fresh and 40% of ambient food stock into our sites for onward delivery to our stores

Our aim is to be the default option for all Asda suppliers by offering first class service and lowest cost whilst generating revenue for ALS

The operations team are based in Rochdale and have a dedicated office with first class facilities. We believe in an open culture where respect and engagement are embedded into our ways of working

**“Find your role”**

Purpose
- The role is to plan and execute the primary plan to deliver first class service to our depots and stores

**Responsibilities**:

- Execute planning activities for the primary network whilst within a team of planners who cover 7 days per week of activity.
- Achieve specific goals in your area of responsibility by working with internal and external customers
- Analyse and use data to improve service to our customers

**Skills**:
Work at intermediate level to
- Analyse potential solutions and create recommendations based on the expected benefits, costs, and overall value to key stakeholders
- Interpret, contribute to or lead business case creation with all departments
- Produce updates and best practice on complex MS documents, databases on departmental systems.
- Resolve complex queries from internal and external customers and suppliers by providing information on policies and procedures
- Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching. Develop and maintain an understanding of relevant, external technology regulation and industry best practices.

**Everything you'll love**

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- 15% colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks - helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves