Store Performance Planner Fixed Term Contract

As a Store Performance Planner, you play a critical role in proactively supporting our Main Chain Food Store Estate for all long-term forecasting and changes to store demand. A role in the Store Performance Team involves stores being at the heart of what we do; working collaboratively with Store Operations, Supply Chain, SRD, and Category teams. You will actively see opportunities to improve store sales, availability, and waste to drive positive volume and sales growth, whilst being able to quickly root cause and identify solutions to any issues. This is an exciting role that gives you the opportunity to work alongside many functions of the business to enhance store performance. What you'll do Your key accountabilities will include Play your part in the delivery of the Food Group Sales, Availability and Waste targets. Accountability for proactively driving the performance in stores across Workstreams and Categories. Actively see opportunities to improve sales, availability and reduce waste to drive positive business performance Deliver great forecasting, such as for: local events, recapture and deflection and disruption to trade Co-ordinate store forecasting for major business events including Christmas & Easter Exploit business reporting solutions and tools available to provide periodic trend analysis on performance to drive swift decision making and actions Own workstreams end to end, to support stores and drive improvement across the business Build on and establish great relationships across the business to create awareness and improve Store Performance Who you are Growth mindset and naturally curious Strong analytical skills - ability to interpret data and identify solutions to improve performance and competent in Excel Strong mathematical skills Great partner management - a pivotal part of the role will involve collaborating with a range of partners Strong verbal and written communication skills - being clear and concise Everyone’s welcome We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen. We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together. If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process