Logistics Assist Development Manager - FTC

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Job Description

NB: This role can be based from one of our 3 Distribution centres in Welham Green, Bradford or our Castle Donington site a minimum of 3 days a week. The role will also require regular travel between these sites. As we believe in order to stay close to customers, our support teams need to be in the office to develop skills and ideas through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected!

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special:

1. After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
2. Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
3. Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
4. A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
5. A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
6. Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
7. Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
8. Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
9. A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Provide data-lead analysis to demonstrate the financial and operational benefits of a proposed change. Post-deployment, clear metrics are used to measure the benefits for the relevant programme governance team.
• Support in identifying areas of underperformance or future performance risk across the network and support in identifying and actioning opportunity for improvement across efficiency, capacity, availability and proposition.
• Support where required in the development and implementation of business cases to secure capital investments.
• Responsible for gathering and cleansing appropriate data to support problem-based analysis.
• Support in the detailed solution design of logistics improvement activities always considering the end user. Completing this through providing clear business requirements, prioritisation process and impact assessments to technical and non-technical teams.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• A self-motivated individual who has a methodical and analytical approach to problem-solving.
• The ability to create, and use, multiple streams/sources of data and then utilise this insight to quantify decision making and support in strategic recommendations to drive the business forward.
• A phenomenal communicator who is capable of simplifying complex information and presenting it in a clear and concise way.
• Capable of using advanced Excel/Power Bi to solve complex problems, and effectively communicating and sharing this data with a diverse range of technical and non-technical partners.
• Ability to complete data gathering via SQL, or similar data programming language, from Warehouse Management/Control Systems style platforms.

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're reinventing, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're redefining 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 would 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.

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