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.

From Percy Pig to the freshest M&S Select Farms produce, we grow, source, and develop our own products to give our customers family-ready food that's unbeatable on flavour and innovation.

We need motivated people who are ready to bring their whole self to work and give it their all in a fast-paced team committed to being the best. After all, this is not just food… This is M&S Food.

This is not just any job this is a M&S franchise range planner job! M&S have an exciting oppertunity · To ensure the right products are ranged to the right stores - matching our customer’s buying patterns, testing new products and market and evaluating the incremental benefit.

Key accountabilities and measures

• Work with the Franchise leadership team to ensure range updates are delivered to agreed timelines through effective project management
• Create and manage the range for a franchise commercial unit, ensuring the ranges are updated to the highest standards through the application of an agreed range change approach
• Analyse multiple sources of commercial data (financial, customer, competition and market) to help inform and implement ranging improvements
• Compile and analyse targeted data to maximise micro space opportunities across the estate.
• Communicate results & drive impact. You will take a major role in presenting the story to partners and driving impact.
• Coordinate across space range and display, categories and Retail teams to build and deliver category action plans.
• Engage with Retail teams and Heads of Retail to ensure strategy is being implemented in stores, and franchise partner feedback is being incorporated as part of the planning process
• Work with managers, build a food strategy and catalogue to support the customer missions, driving individual franchise partner performance whilst handling each partner’s requirements
• Drive continuous improvement of processes and ways of working inside and outside Franchise
• Achieve range targets, ensuring we optimise for: Customer need states met, ease of shop, operations, supply, waste and product margins
• Provide range related management performance information, at varying levels of granularity, including: Stocking point and planogram level – helping identify further opportunity for range enhancements

You will have Excellent project management with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy. You will be proactive and solution driven, a strong team player – enthusiastic with an ability to self-motivate and motivate others. You have good knowledge of Microsoft Suite including Microsoft Excel and Power BI. Knowledge of the Space Range, Display, NPD, Supply Chain and Procurement processes and critical paths. You have knowledge in food Analytics Query Tool (Business Objects), JDA Suite Including: Assortment Optimization, Space Planning, and Intactix Knowledge Database.

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk smart/flexible working.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process. If you consider yourself to have a disability or learning difficulty which means you are unable to complete the application process online, please get in touch either by phone on 0345 300 3725 or by email recruitment.online@marksandspencer.com so we can make alternative arrangements for you.