Commercial Planning Assistant

Holland & Barrett; Nuneaton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Commercial Planning Assistant to enhance their Supply Chain team. This role is pivotal in managing stock levels, building relationships with suppliers, and ensuring promotional forecasts are met. The company values inclusivity and innovation, providing a supportive environment for employees. With hybrid working arrangements, you will have the flexibility to balance office presence and remote work. Join a team dedicated to making health and wellness accessible while thriving in a diverse workplace that celebrates unique experiences and backgrounds.

Benefits

Employee Discount - 25%

Pension company contribution

Exclusive benefits and savings

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Ability to work cross-functionally with various teams.
• Intermediate Excel skills for data management.

Responsibilities

• Manage stock replenishment and vendor relationships.
• Ensure promotional forecasts and availability are met.
• Maintain key documents and manage purchase orders.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Relationship building

Creative problem-solving

Intermediate Excel skills

Data interpretation and manipulation

Job description

Join our team and be part of a company that truly lives its values. With our expertise and commitment to innovation, we aim to build trust and make health and wellness accessible to all. By fostering inclusivity and care, we work collaboratively to improve the well-being of our colleagues, customers, and communities.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and solutions driven Commercial Planning Assistant to join our Supply Chain team, aiding in the maintenance of stock levels of defined portfolios, assisting in the creation of promotional forecasts and ensuring the upweighted volumes are communicated to vendors in a timely manner and ensuring we maintain target availability across designated sub-categories for all channels and territories, guaranteeing great availability every day and ensuring promotions and new range availability are delivered and maintained at the required levels.

Key Responsibilities

• To be responsible for stock replenishment for a group of suppliers & Sub-categories.
• To build & maintain daily relationships with our supplier base and ensure they are performing to the required standards as stated in the vendor manual.
• To manage the open order book ensuring purchase orders are prioritised to minimise out of stocks and drive availability instore and on-line.
• To ensure promotional forecast & availability is delivered to the required levels.
• To ensure range review availability is delivered in a timely manner to ensure success.
• To manage PO's and ensure they are closed in a timely manner.
• To maintain key documents with up to date and current information i.e. open order book, co-pack ordering model.
• To manage our vendors OTIF performance.

Location:

This role is based in Nuneaton, and may be occasionally required to travel to our London Hub or to any other location of H&B. We support flexibility and productivity of our employees by hybrid working arrangements with minimum 2 days presence in the office.

Key Requirements

• Ability to work cross functionally – Category teams, warehouse.
• Ability to create effective relationships with vendor base.
• Ability to create effective relationships with the wider Commercial Planning team, ensuring best practise is met and maintained across the function.
• Able to think creatively to solve problems.
• Intermediate Excel skills.
• Ability to interpretation and manipulation of data.

Our Benefits for this role include, but not limited to:

• H&B Employee Discount - 25%
• Pension company contribution
• Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers.
• And many more!

We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.