Produce & Floral Strategy Manager

Summary
M&S Food is changing, and fast! We are undergoing one of the biggest transformations in retailing today to build a bigger, better, fresher food business.

From Percy Pig to the freshest M&S Select Farms produce, we grow, source, and develop our own products to give our customers family-ready food that's unbeatable on flavour and innovation.

We need motivated people who are ready to bring their whole self to work and give it their all in a fast-paced team committed to being the best. After all, this is not just food This is M&S Food.

We are on a mission to transform our business, making it more relevant, more often, to more people. With the immense opportunities within our group, there's never been a more exciting time to join us.

All the details
As a core member of the category team, reporting to the Head of Trade Produce & Floral, you'll play a pivotal role in reshaping and revolutionizing our customer proposition. Your responsibilities will include driving the category reset and transformation process, providing crucial analysis and insights, and taking ownership of programme management.

Join us and be a part of this thrilling journey to redefine our business and make a lasting impact!

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:

• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 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:

• Leads strategy and implementation of Transformation Plans across all Produce Core Category groups, driving real change and market-leading innovation.
• Never rests in their pursuit for ultimate quality at every tier and puts the customer at the heart of every product related decision.
• Demonstrates the ability to take partners on a journey and influences and leads strategy throughout the wider business.
• Carry out all Programme Management activities including programme planning, risk and issue management, decision logs, reporting and governance, benefit/ KPI measurement.
• Collaborate with teams across the business, including Trading, Product Development, Marketing, Finance, Range & Display and Retail to develop fully integrated category plans that can be delivered effectively and efficiently.
• Follow P&PP (Product & Packaging Pathway) development process, leading highly complex projects to ensure critical path targets are met for cluster, communicating with internal and external partners.

Who you are
Your skills and experience will include:

• Consistent track record at communicating, negotiating and influencing at all levels.
• Ability to handle and lead colleagues & supply base to drive a high-performance culture, pushes boundaries and encourages others to do the same.
• Supportive, approachable, adaptable, resilient and positive.
• A clear decision maker, able to provide clarity to their team.
• A strong strategic planner, using market and customer data to develop product propositions, ensuring we lead the market with a consistent record of clear and successful range strategies.

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.