Commercial Planning Co-Ordinator (Ranging)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Secondment
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 06 November 2024
Requisition ID: 271665
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Here, everything in our stores starts out in Food Commercial. Whether it’s the product, proposition, packaging or price, or the fact that something tastes great, our team is responsible for all food items available in store, digitally and on demand. You’ll discover it’s incredibly fast-paced. People here are in it together and not afraid to take risks. They’re enthusiastic too, and their amazing leadership team is right behind them. The knowledge and experience you gain here could set you up for career moves, anywhere else in the business. So, if you’re passionate about food and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.
Joining our Commercial Delivery team at Sainsbury's means being part of an organisation that is dedicated to maximising commercial and operational value across all brands and channels. The Commercial Planning Range Co-ordinator will support the Commercial Planning Controller (Ranging) to coordinate all forecasted commercial activities for the internal stakeholders. The role will be responsible for activities that support the gathering of forecasts from the trading categories, and other related functions and support the forecasting compliance in Food Commercial. At Sainsbury's, we value attention to detail, organisational skills, and effective communication, and we provide a supportive and flexible work environment that allows for a strong work-life balance. Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning as we strive to deliver exceptional value to our customers while fostering personal and professional growth.
What you'll do:
1. Build the annual Ranging Calendar across GM and Food and act as the interface into Retail for labour planning and into commercial teams for gathering all activity planning.
2. Work with the Commercial Planning Controller and Retail to ensure sufficient labour is allocated to implement all space and range activity.
3. Build relationships with category teams and support them in compliance with the ranging processes.
4. Own the governance process of GM progress meetings at key points in the ranging process and hold multiple cross-functional teams to account for on time delivery throughout the process, giving the teams a rating based on compliance to the process.
5. Provide progress tracking and report on compliance to timings and targets to the business on a weekly basis, as well as providing weekly summaries of what is landing in store.
6. Act as the single point for provision of management information on ranging, including: week by week retail labour activity; product information for key events; compliance tracking to key ranging process milestones.
7. Support the Commercial Planning controllers with the Argos Critical path process and the Sainsburys Services team workload forecasting process.
Who you are:
As a Ranging Coordinator for the Commercial Delivery team at Sainsbury's, you have brilliant planning & organisational skills, with the ability to adapt to changing needs of the business. An analytical mindset to understand how activities and requests impact the forecast plan and the interdependencies between activities. You are self-motivated to work on own initiative with good communication ability, written and verbal, to engage with a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders. You have the ability to prioritise and respond accurately under pressure with a high level of focus on customer service with demonstrated ability to establish and maintain excellent internal & external customer relationships. You have an understanding of current ranging and commercial processes and knowledge of retail labour planning and routines. You should also be a strong user of Excel and project planning tools and have process management experience and knowledge of how to improve day to day working practices, with great attention to detail for keeping records and ability to document and share issues concisely and accurately.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
* Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day.
* We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover.
* You may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform.
* Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday.
* We offer benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well as access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
* We give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.
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