Planner - Third Party Brands

Marks & Spencer Plc; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000

Job description

From Merchandising and Marketing - Product Development and Design, through to Supply Chain and Space Planning - our mission is to bring stylish wardrobe, home and beauty essentials to our customers via an easy, inspiring shopping experience online and in store that will delight them every time.

As we accelerate the transformation of our business to suit the changing needs of our customer, we need results-orientated colleagues that not only have a passion for our product, but a strong team working ethos, creativity and a healthy commercial aim to join us on our journey.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

As the Planner in 3PB your role will be to assist the Planning Manager and support the wider team in the commercial planning process for brands. You will be imperative in delivering the sales, stock and intake targets and work collaboratively across key stakeholders (Buying & Merchandising, Finance, Supply Chain & Logistics, Commercial Planning) to ensure the plan is delivered.

What you'll do…

As the 3PB Planner your key accountabilities will include:

• Partner the Planning Manager to ensure key strategic and commercial plans are developed, implemented and milestone dates achieved.
• Support the delivery of the merchandise budgeting and planning process for stock and commitment ensuring that all key operational and strategic decisions are incorporated within the agreed timelines.
• Monitor targets for stock, intake, cost reductions and ways management for Brands and drive actions across Brands to ensure delivery. Identify deviations from targets, raise them to the business, and support the creation of a reaction plan.
• Support the Brands team with the delivery of the Plans to the agreed timescales working with Merchandisers / Buyers and embedded Finance.
• Deliver the Planning process across Brands, developing a one best way in with standardized & consistent documentation that enables easy roll ups across Brands and as determined for clothing. Track the end-to-end critical path for the Brands and identify key issues.
• Work with the Central Planning and Reporting teams to ensure that the relevant Brands MI and reporting is available on time and feed ad hoc BU requests into the relevant teams.
• Support the Brands to optimize / reduce stock holding by identifying slow / unproductive lines requesting the appropriate action is taken. Manage and challenge repricing / promotions / RTVs for the Brands, working with the Commercial & Operations team to execute the changes.

Who you are

Your skills & experience will include:

• Strong data analytics.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Adaptability.
• Problem Solving.
• Collaboration.
• Strategic Planning.

Everyone’s welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.