Capacity & Network Planning Manager

Sainsbury’s Group; City of Westminster; Sur place; GBP 60 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Employee discounts

Pensions & life cover

Private healthcare

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loans

Salary bonus up to 20%

Résumé du poste

Sainsbury’s Group is seeking a highly analytical Location Planning & Analytics professional to lead capacity expansion for Digital (Groceries Online). You will model network capacity, maintain a live network plan, and collaborate with stakeholders on investment opportunities to optimise delivery territories.

With strong GIS experience (ArcPro preferred), advanced Excel/SQL skills, and excellent presentation abilities, you’ll translate complex data into strategic decisions that shape the online

Qualifications

• Strong analytical capability with large data sets and modelling experience.
• Proficient GIS skills with spatial data interpretation and ArcPro knowledge.
• Experience in location planning or retail property planning.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills for senior stakeholders.
• Good knowledge of UK geography and market presentation capabilities.

Responsabilités

• Lead the Digital (Groceries Online) capacity expansion planning and network modelling.
• Develop and maintain a live network plan for strategic property and capacity decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define investment opportunities and financial viability.
• Identify tactical opportunities to alleviate capacity constraints and optimise delivery areas.
• Present complex analyses to senior leadership to inform online retail strategy.

Connaissances

Excel

SQL

GIS

PowerPoint

UK geography

Outils

ArcGIS ArcPro

Description du poste

You are a highly analytical and strategic professional with a strong background in location planning and analytics within the retail industry. Your expertise in handling large datasets, developing complex models, and utilising GIS tools enables you to drive the capacity expansion strategy for the Digital (Groceries Online) sector, ensuring optimal network planning and property investment decisions. With exceptional communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, you play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Sainsbury's digital customer experience through data-driven insights and strategic planning initiatives.

You will play a crucial role in overseeing the Digital (Groceries Online) capacity expansion strategy planning process through robust network, location, and capacity planning modelling. Your responsibilities will include managing and iterating the online store network capacity model to ensure it reflects operational reality and operating model requirements, as well as developing a live network plan to inform a strategic property and capacity plan for Digital. You will collaborate with key stakeholders to define a pipeline of investment opportunities and manage the financial viability of capacity investment programmes, while also working to identify tactical opportunities to alleviate capacity constraints and optimise delivery territories. Your advanced analytical skills, knowledge of Geographical Information Systems, and ability to present complex analyses to senior stakeholders will be essential in driving the success of our online retail operations.

• Highly analytical and comfortable working with large data sets and developing complex models. This includes strong Excel and SQL skills.
• Accomplished knowledge of Geographical Information Systems - ArcPro preferable, and be able to think spatially in your analysis and appraisal.
• How to apply advanced GIS skills to ensure we present, interpret and model our data spatially - ensuring geographic consideration forms an integral part of our thinking.
• Experience within retail property / location planning industry.
• Good knowledge of UK geography.
• Strong PowerPoint capabilities and able to present complex analysis in clear and engaging ways to senior stakeholders.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you'll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there's always the chance to try something new - whether that's as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we'll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them
We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury's. As the link between sellers and buyers, retail and head office, our Retail Operations team is the cog that keeps things running. With teams focused on store-facing activity, labour, transformation, online, delivery and contact centres, we touch almost every part of the business. It's an incredibly fast-paced environment, where you need to pivot not just daily, but often hourly. So while we plan as much as we can, it's vital that we all think beyond our job descriptions and look for ways to optimise and improve everything we do. There's also a real team ethos here. After all, it's people like you who will truly transform this part of the business.
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave.