Range Optimisation Manager
| Posting date: | 24 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £60,000 to £70,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 August 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester, Greater Manchester, M60 0AG |
| Company: | Co-op Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1043268_1721829395 |
Summary
Range Optimisation Manager
£60,000 to £70,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5)
In this role you'll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and coming into our Manchester office at least once a month (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).
We're looking for a Range Optimisation Manager to join our Propositions team, where you'll own, develop, and embed our approach to optimise our ranges across customer, commercial and operational outcomes. We'll look to you to support and lead the Range Optimisation team who use our market-leading store clustering and ranging tools and systems to help deliver against agreed objectives and guardrails as part of our range and merchandising strategy. If you have the experience we are looking for, we can offer you the opportunity to drive our Co-op proposition and brand to make sure the right range is in the right place at the right time for our customers and member owners.
What you'll do
- Own our range guardrails and principles and our store clustering strategy ensuring these are delivered against through range reviews
- Drive the change needed to embed our range optimisation approach, principles, and guardrails
- Lead, coach and develop the Range Optimisation team, empowering them to deliver against range review objectives
- Find opportunities and take an innovative approach to make sure we are continuously improving and future proofing our range Support and input into projects, tests and trials to find new ways of making our ranges even better
- Use data and insights to make sure we are optimising our tools and systems to help us get the right ranges in the right stores
- Be commercially driven to do the right things for our business, customers, and member owners
This role would suit people who have
- The ability to motivate through inspirational leadership and to deliver business needs through a successful team
- The ability to champion change and invest time building strong relationships with a variety of internal and external partners
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present, challenge, and influence
- Experience and understanding of product lifecycle and range review process
Why Co-op?
If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).
- 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
- Private healthcare for you
- 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
- YuLife app - rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands
At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.
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 and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing
Please note that we may close applications for this role early.