# Range Optimisation Manager

**Company**: Co-op
**Location**: United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: £60,000 - £70,000
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We're looking for a Range Optimisation Manager to join our Customer team and help us deliver the right products, in the right stores, for our customers and member-owners. You'll lead and develop our Range Optimisation team, working with colleagues across Customer, Commercial and Operations to embed our approach to range optimisation and drive strong customer, commercial and operational outcomes.

**What you'll do**

- Own our range guardrails and principles and our store clustering strategy, making sure these are delivered 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 our strategic objectives

- Liaise closely with our customer and commercial teams to help translate category strategies into optimised range assortments

- Support and input into projects, tests and trials to find new ways of making our ranges even better

- Use data and insights to optimise our tools and systems, helping us get the right ranges into the right stores

- Use sound commercial judgement to support decisions that deliver the best outcomes for our business, customers and member-owners

- Build strong relationships across the business, influencing stakeholders, navigating differing priorities and helping teams reach effective decisions

**What you'll bring**

- Experience leading, coaching or developing others, with the ability to bring people together to achieve shared goals

- The ability to build strong relationships and lead change across multiple stakeholder groups

- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and manage difficult conversations when needed

- Experience within category management, ranging, merchandising or a similar commercial retail environment

- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to balance customer, operational and business priorities

- The ability to remove barriers, navigate complexity and help teams make effective decisions

**Benefits**

- 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

- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)

- 30% discount on Co-op products and 10% off other brands

- Stream – early access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it

- Virtual healthcare including GP appointments, mental health support, nutrition and fitness advice

- 24/7 colleague support service

- Training and support for your development and career progression

- Cycle-to-work scheme

## Skills

### Required
- range optimisation
- category management
- merchandising
- commercial awareness
- leadership
- communication
- influencing

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