# Planner

**Company**: Marks & Spencer
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

Ready to turn commercial insight into action? Join our team as an Outlet Planner on a 12-month fixed-term contract and help shape plans that deliver real results. Working closely with the Outlet Planning Manager, you’ll bring together key commercial information, roll-ups and analysis to align Outlet and Business Unit plans, highlight risks and opportunities, and ensure priorities are implemented effectively.

**Your key accountabilities will include**

- Monitoring targets for made stock, intake, OTIF, cost of reductions and options management. Completing relevant data roll-ups and collation to provide a clear BU and Outlet view on progress against targets, risks and opportunities.

- Facilitating the merchandise budgeting and planning process for stock and commitment, ensuring that all key operational and strategic decisions are incorporated within agreed timelines.

- Working with the Data & Reporting team to shape reporting requirements and develop automated self-service reports for the BUs.

- Assisting in developing and adhering to the end-to-end critical path and identifying any operational issues.

- Supporting the Planning Manager by providing commercial information as required on trading activity, such as markdowns, promotional activity, seasonal planning, review summaries and weekly sales.

**Your skills and experience will include**

- Strong merchandising skills.

- Knowledge of business IT systems and stock interdependencies.

- Strong numerical and analytical skills.

- Strong influencing and communication skills.

- An understanding of non-buying support areas, such as Space, Logistics, Pricing & Promotions.

**What’s in it for you?** Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation.

- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more.

- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours.

- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future.

- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one.

- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal.

- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave.

- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services.

- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you.

## Skills

### Required
- merchandising
- analytical skills
- communication skills

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