Senior Value Strategy Manager

Senior Value Strategy Manager 
Up to £65,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 5)
Manchester – hybrid working between home and two days a week in the office https://jobs.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy 
We’re looking for a Senior Value Strategy Manager to join our Value and Trade Planning Team at Co-op.

Our Value and Trade planning teams, are focused on improving the experience for customers and members, driving growth and profitable sales in Foods. In this role, you’ll be part of our customer leadership team, developing and owning the Value Strategy, engaging and aligning teams to ensure strategies land effectively in store.

Why this role matters

You’ll play a key role in transforming the Food Business, using customer insight and data to create clear, joined-up plans with Trading teams, ensuring we consistently do the right thing for our customers and the business.

What you’ll do

• Own, develop and bring to life the Value strategy, making sure it’s understood and executed across the Food Business aligning the relevant teams 
• Develops a customer- led value proposition, translates customer insight and data into clear, joined up value strategies that directly address customer pain points 
• Influence and engage senior stakeholders across Foods to ensure the customer is at the heart of decision making, continuously balancing commercial and customer outcomes 
• Galvanise teams across the Value levers of Price, Promotions, Range & Quality, to develop a strategy that bridges the customer and commercial strategies 
• Partner with finance, trading, and customer teams to embed a customer-first, data-led approach in all decision-making, with budgets aligned to the value strategy  
• Recommend and shape changes to category roles and value levers, working  through the right forums to bring others with you to drive profitable sales 
• Leads engagement of the value framework to ensure a single version of the truth is embedded for what good value looks like.

What you’ll bring

We’re committed to making our roles accessible, so we focus on what really matters. To thrive in this role, you’ll bring:

• Experience leading in a customer-facing retail environment, with a genuine passion for doing the right thing for customers, alongside delivering commercial results 
• The ability to think strategically, seeing the bigger picture while delivering practical outcomes in Retail 
• A talent for bringing ideas to life strategy in a way that’s engaging and easy to understand
• Strong relationship-building skills, with confidence to influence and challenge positively
• Deep understanding of all key proposition, customer and commercial roles in retail 
• Ability to digest complex data sources and use these to challenge the status quo

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:

• Competitive pay including additional shift allowances
• Holidays starting from 30 days per year (including bank holidays)
• 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores
• Private healthcare
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Stream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Free employee assistance programme with extensive health, financial and wellbeing support
• Access to credit unions for loans and savings, plus rental deposit loans and season ticket loans
• Free eye tests every 2 years
• On-site facilities including a subsidised canteen and free parking

A place you’ll belong

We're building diverse and inclusive teams that reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and are committed to creating a workplace where colleagues can feel like they belong, supported by our inclusive policies and the ways we work.

We're proud to be part of the Disability Confident scheme and offer interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for a job. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, we'll support you.

Learn more about our recruitment process at Your Co-op Application Journey and our inclusion commitments at Diversity and inclusion at Co-op

We welcome applications from veterans, reservists, and military families. We’re proud to support meaningful careers, not just jobs, for those with Armed Forces experience and their partners.

As part of the application process for this job, you'll need to complete two online assessments.  It will take around 20 minutes to complete these tests.
We reserve the right to remove a vacancy before the scheduled closing date.