Our International business has the exciting job of bringing our famous clothing, food and home products to over 32 million customers worldwide. Collaborating with our partner businesses, different countries and cultures, you'll work with colleagues around the world to help us reshape International as we know it.

Our ambition is to more than double International retail sales online, so there's never been a better time to join the department and make your mark as we continue to build inclusive and diverse relationships, and put the business and our colleagues at the forefront of every decision we make!

What you'll be doing...

• Identify opportunities and recommend logistics solutions to deliver the International growth ambition to deliver the our plan and the longer term horizon
• Develop logistics solution to support both continuous improvement, issue resolution and strategic change across all logistics channels and feed into the project pipeline to support the C&H roadmap
• Develop business cases including the operational and financial analysis and present in a way which drives clear decision making
• Complete RFPs to support detailed business case costing, evaluation of operational change and work with operational teams to ensure solution design is optimal and meets requirements
• Deliver projects to agreed timescales and to achieve expected outputs within budget
• Ability to work under pressure and with a diverse group of stakeholders and gain agreement across business regarding benefits and impacts to the business and customers
• Ability to work cross functionally and lead internal and external stakeholders through a common set of objectives and deliverables.
• Understand programme dependencies and work across teams to ensure change is delivered effectively and in a joined up way with thorough understanding of the E2E Supply Chain network.
• Work with the business change function to ensure change management meets requirements and works towards the overall programme / project objectives
• Identification, monitoring and managing of project risks, including working with key stakeholders to agree mitigation strategies and escalations where necessary with a particular focus on maintaining service to our partners and channels
• Stakeholder management: Provide status updates at the appropriate level according to the audience and facilitate decision making to ensure critical path is kept

The skills you'll need...

• Strong International Supply Chain and logistics experience covering both D2C and B2B inc Marketplace and having an excellent understanding of what is required for best in class delivery operations.
• Strong strategic thinker with a bias for action and delivery
• The ability to work under pressure in an environment which values fast, impactful delivery
• Ability to set direction when dealing with ambiguity
• Excellent understanding of what is required for best in class D2C and marketplace delivery operations
• Financially literate with high level of numeracy, analytical and reporting skills. Competent with Powerpoint and high proficiency with Excel
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills through both verbal and written media to initiate and build strong relationships with wider project team & build a network of supportive colleagues in wider business
• Great stakeholder management skills across senior stakeholders, project teams and business leads and the ability to listen, gather input, summarise and feedback requirements

This is an excellent opportunity to join us at an exciting time of change and transformation! In exchange for your experience, we will reward you with a competitive salary and market leading benefits package.

Interested? Apply here!

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. Applicants with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation either by phone on 0345 300 3725 or by email recruitment.online@marksandspencer.com, so we can make alternative arrangements for you.