Portfolio Planner 

£32,000 - £38,000 plus excellent benefits including 10% pension contribution and 28 days holiday (Work Level 6A) 

12-month Fixed Term Contract

5 over 7 days working pattern, with up to 10 weekend working days per year 

Manchester city centre. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way, splitting your time between home and coming into the office at least 1 day a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy)

We’re looking for a Portfolio Planner to join Co-op’s Supply Chain.  In this role, we’ll look to you to help optimise store on-shelf availability for new stores and refit stores, making sure that our customers have access to the products that they need, when they need them. We’ll also need you to use your analytical skills to interpret data to understand how we can reduce store wastage and make decisions that strategically influence the store demand forecast. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills and gain great exposure within retail supply chain. 

What you’ll do

• Track the performance of your refit / new stores and feedback issues to supply chain and logistics, providing root cause analysis and resolution 
• Support any strategic activity and make recommendations on new initiatives to facilitate continuous improvement
• Analyse data for stores, using the insights to enable informed decision making and accurate forecasting 
• Promote the importance of the profitability framework to stores
• Identify and resolve customer facing availability options
• Build strong relationships based on confidence and trust with stores and across relevant functions within the supply chain
• Use your great communication skills to provide a framework for profitable sales and take onboard feedback

This role would suit people who have

• Outstanding relationship building and influencing skills with colleagues across multi functions
• Excellent analytical skills with experience of working with large datasets, spotting trends and drawing insights from these 
• The ability to easily adapt and react to changes and conflicting priorities
• Intermediate Excel skills – you’re able to learn V-lookups, formulas, and pivot tables

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
• Private healthcare 
• 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 colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.