Online Demand and Delivery Planning Manager

Job Title

Online Demand and Delivery Planning Manager

Location

George House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

Category

Support, Training and Sales Effectiveness

Closing Date

19 December 2024

“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 mean 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.

“Everything you'll love.”

• Hybrid and flexible working – everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda has it on point. Flexible working means you work where it works to meet both your needs and the business needs.

• Discretionary bonus – Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts.

• Company Pension Scheme matched to a limit – Looking forward to the future.

• Minimum 24 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off.

• 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year.

• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares, so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best; the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us.

• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George – with extra discounts running throughout the year – really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year.

• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes – we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business.

• Free city centre parking – you can also use it outside working hours.

Plus, much more!

“Find your role”.

• This is a significant high-profile managerial role in the Online George.com team with key responsibility for central management of all online metric plans and forecasts for the channel. You will play a key role between key stakeholders marketing, commercial, and logistics on the plan creation and re-forecast short and long term. This role sits in the leadership team for George.com and reports directly to the Director of Online for George.com.

• Leading and executing short-term to long-term forecasts for online across demand sales, volume performance, trade performance, and margin performance.

• In year responsible for reforecast across online metrics working closely across key business stakeholders Trading and Finance.

• Support the delivery of the Gross Profit & Variable Profit challenges of the business to improve overall Net profit return.

• Prioritize customers based on profitability in partnership with Online Director and Brand Director.

• Working in partnership with Online supply teams to manage the Asda Logistics operation across the 5 fulfillment sites.

• Working in partnership with Operation leads, to ensure key logistic partners deliver a fulfilment operation that meets our needs and growth ambitions.

• Working in partnership with Asda Logistics to plan and reforecast sales volumes to support the delivery of the cost plans and delivery proposition.

• Key role in cascading the Online commercial plans with business stakeholders including Online Proposition, Online Trade & Merchandise, and Brand.

• As part of the George.com leadership team will be an active participant in process improvement and strategic direction aligning with business priorities.

• Sets strategic direction on delivery price strategy and develops future opportunities to increase revenues whilst remaining competitive to the market.

• Manage the George.com Delivery service proposition, including management and forecasting the delivery income.

“Let's find out about you.”

• Ideal candidate has over 3-5 years of experience in a demand planning role.

• Possess strong analytical skills, with experience handling large data sets and a proven ability to develop demand forecasting systems.

• Depth of experience across reporting and analysis tools such as Power BI, Google Analytics beneficial.

• Fantastic communication and relationship building to manage all stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to build and maintain a strong network of peers and contacts across Leadership tiers.

• You will be comfortable challenging and influencing situations whilst maintaining solid internal and external connections.

• Demonstrate strong knowledge of online planning and fulfilment operations integral to the role.

• You will achieve results through inspiring and motivating cross-functional teams influencing action where needed and deliver against the strategy.

“Find your everything at Asda” - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach.

We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.

Work Where it Works

Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to choose where you’ll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus

• £5,700 company car or car allowance

• Company pension up to 7% matched

• 10% colleague discount, free parking, and many additional rewards.

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.