Supply Chain Q-Commerce Demand Planner

Supply Chain Q-Commerce Demand Planner
£34,680 - £40,800 plus great benefits (Work Level 6A)
5 over 7 days working pattern with some occasional weekend working (up to 8 weekend days per year)
Manchester city centre, in this role you’ll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and coming into the office at least once a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at jobs.colleagues.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

12-month fixed-term contract

We’re looking for a Supply Chain Q-Commerce Demand Planner to join us and help us maintain excellent working relationships with our Q-Commerce Partners, stores and all our support centre functions. Making sure that we can bring more of our great products to our customers across the country at the right time every time.

In this role, you’ll have the unique opportunity to work closely with our Q-comm, Supply Chain and Commercial teams. In Supply Chain, we’ll look to you to identify new strategic approaches to maintaining great availability of products to our existing channels (including Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat). If you can bring us the analytical skills and the collaborative working style we need, we can offer you the chance to play a key part in our business.

What you’ll do

• Build relationships and work collaboratively with partners across the business and externally, supporting them and making sure we’re getting things right first time
• Respond to partner queries (internal and external to Co-op) about our products and processes, offering fact-based recommendations using information available
• Represent Supply Chain in regular forum groups, holding colleagues and teams to account where necessary and ensuring our partners and customers are at the forefront of decision making
• Attend weekly MI sessions and use data to influence and identify opportunities for growth
• Drive the 2025 Supply Chain Q-commerce strategy

This role would suit people who have

• Experience in a retail trading and Supply Chain working environment
• Excellent influencing and relationship management skills, from internal colleagues to senior leaders
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Excel, and the confidence to use and learn new systems
• Previous SAP experience or experience using forecasting/replenishment systems
• Proven experience of delivering significant change at store level across hundreds of sites

Why Co-op?

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

Building a diverse environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme at Disability Confident Scheme - Co-op Colleagues and more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion at Diversity and Inclusion

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes.