Partner Officer – Supply Chain

£32,000 - £40,000 plus benefits (Work level 6A) 

Manchester city centre, you’ll work in a hybrid way, with one or two days in the office and occasional travel to visit society partners (find out more about our hybrid working policy at https://jobs.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy) 

Full time, with weekend work scheduled around 5 weekends per year 

We’re looking for a Partner Officer to join our Supply Chain team at Co-op. In this role, we’ll look to you to provide support to our FRTS (Federal Retail Trading Services) society partners, and our Nisa wholesale business. You’ll be responsible for managing relationships with key wholesale and buying group partners, acting as a liaison between Co-op Supply Chain, independent society members and Nisa.  

If you can bring us the great communication and analytical skills that we’re looking for, we can offer you the opportunity to make a real impact on the way we do business, and to gain great exposure across our Supply Chain as well as connecting with a range of external partners. 

What you’ll do

• Work as part of a team of four Partner Officers, each aligned to designated categories across Supply Chain 
• Manage relationships and influence across a wide variety of key partners, both internally and externally - from partner supply chains and a variety of wholesale customers to Co-op colleagues in Supply Chain, Trading, Operations and Logistics 
• Use a range of data from different systems to monitor partner performance, making sure that key targets are being met 
• Represent Supply Chain in various working groups and monitoring groups
• Make sure that all relative competition law, regulatory and legislation compliance training are always adhered to across the team 
• Be trained on process compliance, competition law, and SAP
• Create clear communications including for seasonal events, and send these out to society partners 

This role would suit people who have

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present information to a range of audiences at different work levels 
• Great relationship building skills with the confidence to engage with and influence colleagues and partners 
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to draw key insights out of large and complex data sets
• Good general IT skills, with the ability to use Microsoft Excel at intermediate level (you’re comfortable using tools such as pivot tables and VLOOKUPS) 

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.

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 and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing

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.