E2E Inventory Data Analytics Manager - Supply Chain Planning

What’s in it for you  

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re 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 with us. 

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special… 

• 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household. 
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days! 
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business. 
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance. 
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills. 
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing. 
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family. 
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family. 
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work

What you’ll do 

Your key accountabilities will include 

• Implementation of new processes /reports /systems /tools to maximise opportunities and minimise disruption to our business
• Scope future strategies and develop improvements to the End to End Supply Chain capability. Enabling a better flow of product from supplier to customer, so we can improve our sales and increase our profit
• Determine the root cause of issues today and the capabilities required to drive the outcome, develop and manage a project plan(s) to deliver that outcome and lead a small team to deliver this
• Prototype tools in an agile way that help digitalise our supply chain, drive insights and build the capability to work by exception
• Build a process map of M&S supply chain flows end to end from Supplier to Store that identifies issues with the ‘as is’ and the actions needed to reach a ‘to be’ state that solves these challenges

Who you are 

Your skills and experience will include 

• Structured approach to solving complex supply chain issues, experience with continuous Improvement frameworks and approaches
• Proficient in use of different tools for extraction/structuring/analysis of large data sets (Hadoop/Beam/SQL/Python/XLS/PPT)
• Experience of storytelling and presenting information to drive action
• Ability to Build and maintain great relationships with key partners across different teams, with strong communication skills, being both collaborative and assertive as the need arises
• Ability to lead, inspire and motivate a team through effective line management, coaching, workload planning, career development and feedback

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. 

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