Own Brand Strategic Growth Manager
£38,000 to £45,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 6A) 
Manchester City Centre, in this role you’ll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and coming into the office once or twice a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at https://jobs.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy ).  

We’re looking for a Strategic Growth Manager to join our Own Brand Strategic Growth team. You’ll join a team that are champions of Own Brand, full of ideas and most importantly, passionate about food. We’ll look to you to take ownership of your categories and play a key role in ensuring that Own Brand participation targets are met and growth opportunities through Own Brand are identified.

You’ll also support the day-to-day delivery of our strategy, working collaboratively across a variety of internal teams to bring ideas to life and make a real impact. This is a great opportunity to shape the future of Co-op’s Own Brand offering and help us deliver excellence that our customers and member-owners expect.

What you’ll do

•    Be responsible for delivering growth by driving volume through Own Brand sales
•    Identify and source new opportunities in categories where leveraging own brand is beneficial for our customers and members but also financially viable
•    Collaborate across multiple departments to deliver strategic goals
•    Act as an Own Brand champion by being the voice of our customers and a keen observer of market trends 
•    Use data and insight to guide decisions, support negotiations and tell a meaningful story
•    Negotiate confidently with the wider business

This role would suit people who have

•    Proven experience in a commercial, category or brand-focused role 
•    Strong data analysis skills, with the ability to interpret and tell a compelling story with data 
•    Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and inspire partners and colleagues at all levels 
•    Great negotiation skills and a proactive mindset, you’ll spot and pursue opportunities and be comfortable dealing with any challenges

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

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.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
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 up to 50 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.