Trade Planning Manager

Summary

M&S Food is changing, and fast! We are undergoing one of the biggest transformations in retailing today to build a bigger, better, fresher food business.

We are looking for a Food Trade Planning manager to ensure the smooth running and coordination of the trade plan across foods. This is a high exposure role at the heart of our Food business which will work cross functionally within the food group to ensure propositions are well planned, executed and delivered in line with critical path.

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.

All the details

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - becoming a part and playing your part. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values.

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

• 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
• A first-class welcome to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development. Having options to progress is something we're proud of at M&S.
• Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal goals.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website. Including GymSave - that offers up to 25% off Gym Memberships and the option to become an M&S Shareholder using our ShareSave & ShareBuy Schemes.
• Charity Volunteer Day - A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
• A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• Every colleague at M&S has access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support - this includes access to our 24/7 Virtual GP, PAM Assist to support you & your family & free access to the UnMind App as well as many other schemes.

Key Accountabilities

• Have an overarching understanding of the trade plan, supporting the delivery of the Food Group strategy.
• Manage and maintain relationships across the Food Group including buying teams, supply chain, marketing and retail operations to ensure alignment cross functionally, in order to enable successful delivery of the trade plan from vision stage right through to implementation in store.
• Coordinating and gathering data for meetings and presenting and leading sessions.
• Ensuring all trade plan documents are accurate, up to date and delivered within critical path.
• Ability to analyse data and escalate any risks that may affect the trade plan or critical path.

Key Skills

• Stakeholder management - comfortable managing stakeholders at peer level as well as more senior.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Solution driven with confidence to work proactively and independently.
• Personable with great communication and influencing skills, with the ability to challenge effectively at peer level as well as more senior.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Energetic and enthusiastic.

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.