Description
Ready to turn commercial insight into international growth? Join us as an International Franchise Partner Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping the success of our franchise operations across multiple global markets.
You’ll build strong partner relationships, turn weekly actions and monthly performance insights into results, and champion the high operational standards our customers expect. Working alongside the Regional Partnership Manager and teams across the business, you’ll help deliver ambitious transformation programmes and bring our three-year growth plan to life.
Your key accountabilities will include
- Work closely with BUs and Franchise Partners to agree a forward trade plan, build a retail budget and ensure the smooth delivery of the 3-year planning process that is then agreed with partners.
- With our partners, you will shape and agree the seasonal launch dates, selling and collection plans, key promotions and events and markdown strategy across all channels and BU’s alongside the BU teams to ensure stock into sale, sell through and profit targets are finely balanced.
- You will work closely with the Supply Chain team to ensure the critical path for delivery is clear and network capacities can support the operational requirements.
- Support the Finance teams to analyse, model and review the commercial effectiveness of the trading plan and to make recommendations for future mechanics and tactical trading responses.
- Input into the quarterly business review process and analyse in-season trading performance working with the franchise partners and M&S teams to adapt and adjust in response to changing customer mindsets and market conditions.
Your skills and experience will include
- Strong commercial and trading acumen alongside confident analytical ability.
- Experience in building effective stakeholder relationships at all levels and working collaboratively across multiple functions to achieve a consensus and deliver an end goal.
- The ability to negotiate successfully with partners to reach an agree a joint annual business plan, shipment plan and in trading decision making.
- Highly organised self-starter that is capable of working independently as well as playing a key role in a high performing partnership team.
- Previous Retail experience in market in a selling or trading role and/or store leadership experience is desirable.
Benefits
- 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.
Work Environment
- To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.