Range Planning Manager

Range Planning Manager 
£42,000 to £52,000 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 around once a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy)

We’re looking for a Range Change Schedule and Process Manager who’s full of ideas and ready to make a real difference. 

Why this role matters

As the UK’s biggest community retailer, it’s important that our ranges reflect what our customers need and expect from us. In this role, you’ll help us plan and deliver the work that gets the right products into our Co‑op Food stores at the right time for our customers. If you can bring the experience and fresh thinking we’re looking for, we’ll give you the chance to grow your career while making a positive impact in our communities.

What you’ll be doing

• Developing and maintaining our range change schedule so it supports our customer strategy and commercial goals, while being manageable for our stores, colleagues and infrastructure. You’ll use our PowerApp platform as the foundation for this work.
• Owning and improving our range change processes, making sure they’re simple, effective and support the delivery of the schedule.
• Tracking how we’re performing against the schedule and taking the right action when risks, challenges or delays appear.
• Working closely with teams across the business to make sure the schedule stays relevant, prioritised and fit for purpose in a fast‑changing environment.
• Supporting projects and ad‑hoc range changes, adapting processes and timings where needed so we can stay agile.
• Helping shape and maintain our annual plan for range changes, making sure that it’s customer‑led, commercially sound and operationally efficient.
• Building strong relationships with colleagues and partners across Co‑op to make sure we’re working together in the right way.

This role would suit you if you have

We’re committed to making our roles as accessible as possible, so we only ask for the minimum criteria. To thrive here, you’ll need to bring:

• A strategic mindset and a good understanding of how range changes affect customers, our commercial performance and our operations.
• Great communication skills, with the confidence to bring new ideas to life by working closely with partners and internal teams.
• Strong planning and organisational skills, with great attention to detail.
• The ability to adapt quickly, understand complex problems and help shape practical, effective solutions.
• Experience creating, maintaining or embedding processes, ideally within grocery retail or a supplier environment.
• Able to pick up new systems quickly 

Why Co-op? 

At Co-op, we’re owned by our members. And because we’re owned by you, we can do right by you. So when you join us, you’re not just taking a job, you’re joining a movement. We’re an organisation that puts people and communities first, and we’re powered by purpose. We want this to be a place where you can thrive, so you’ll also receive:

• 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.