Merchandise Planner, Food & Grocery

At a glance

Role Title: Planner Food & Grocery Merchandising

Position: This is a Permanent Position

Location: Bracknell

Salary: £39,900.00 - 68,500.00, Annual

Hours of Work: Full Time, 35 Hours.

We know flexible working is important to you, and it is important to us, too. The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based on your personal needs while balancing the needs of the business. The Merchandising Operations team aim for at least 2-3 days a week in the office to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings, but again, they are flexible on this. The role is based at Bracknell.

About The Role

As a Merchandise Planner, you will be focused on creating, optimising, and delivering plans for supplier ordering and stock replenishment that result in the right amount of stock, in the right place, at the right time, building on the demand forecasts.

Planning activity is an integral part of the work of each Category Proposition Group to deliver the trade plan, and it has a direct impact on the delivery of key stock KPIs (availability, explained wastage, stock holding).

Some Of Your Key Responsibilities Include

• Optimize stock availability for all Food & Grocery customers to reach sales category targets and control wastage and working capital costs.
• Using insight from the Category Proposition Group and analysis of historical performance, plan all items for promotions, deals and events to meet targets.
• Providing data and experienced-based insight to enable evidence-based decision making in the Category
  
  

Essential Skills

• Evidence of using data for analysis and decision making
• Collaborating on projects to deliver solutions for business success
• Influencing and managing supplier and customer relationships
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel & Google Apps
  
  

Benefits Of The Partnership And The Role

• You will enjoy 25% discount at John Lewis and 20% in Waitrose
• The Partnership has a competitive pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay)
• Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy
  
  

Find out more about our Benefits: https://www.jlpjobs.com/about/benefits/

Next Steps

The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process").

Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a face-to-face interview at Bracknell, commencing week 03/02/25.

You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you.

Please note that we occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend that you apply early.

For internal partners only - Please view the job outline below using your John Lewis email address:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q98l-68SPpsf8Fvso3F6z3uNbnelkQbo/view

External Applicants, please see the job outline attached to the bottom of the JLP Job posting for this role.