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About the Role
Utilize data and insights to collaborate with Forecasting and Inventory teams to improve Demand Weighted Availability (DWA) performance. Requires a comprehensive business overview to align channel-specific and Business Unit (BU) priorities for strategic decision-making across Retail and E-Commerce.
Responsibilities
- Optimize Forecasting & Inventory performance by addressing forecast accuracy, stock placement, enhancing DWA, reducing operating costs, and improving inventory turns through continuous improvement plans.
- Monitor store performance against similar stores/grades/formats to find opportunities for improving trade.
- Coordinate backstage stock control with stores, retail operations, and space teams to minimize operational impact and maximize customer stock availability.
- Investigate sales and stock flow queries, conducting root cause analysis and gaining consensus on actions to minimize unproductive backstage stocks.
- Manage actions within the critical path action plan for Supply Chain & Logistics contribution to new and renewal store openings, collaborating with BUs to optimize availability.
Requirements
- Number-oriented analyst with strong mathematical skills, a commercial approach, and an interest in retail Store and Supply Chain Planning.
- Proficient with tools for extracting, structuring, and analyzing large data sets (e.g., Data Bricks, Hadoop, Beam, SQL, Python, XLS, PPT) with an awareness of data trends and exceptions.
- Experience using tools and techniques to collate and interpret feedback from different data sources.
- Understanding of Continuous Improvement frameworks and approaches.
- Knowledge of statistical forecasting systems and techniques and their application for strategic and tactical outcomes.
- Understanding of inventory planning standard methodologies, sales forecasting, and supply chain processes.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to listen, take feedback, influence outcomes, and collaborate with key partners.
Skills
- Data Analysis
- Forecasting
- Inventory Planning
- Supply Chain Processes
- Continuous Improvement
- SQL
- Python
- Data Bricks
- Hadoop
- Beam
- XLS
- PPT
- Communication
- Collaboration
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Benefits
- 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and a household member.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days.
- Discretionary bonus schemes based on personal objectives and business performance.
- Generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
- Tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes.
- Perks and discounts via M&S Choices portal.
- Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies.
- Access to 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist for wellbeing support.
- Charity volunteer day.
About the Company
- M&S is an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever-evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop.
- Ambitious about the future of retail, disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era.
- Transforming how we work together and offering exciting opportunities.
- Strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by colleagues, customers and suppliers.
- Committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best.
- Support each other and work together to win together.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.