Distribution Performance Analyst

John Lewis Partnership; Bracknell; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail partnership in Bracknell is hiring a Distribution Performance Analyst. This role focuses on enhancing operational performance through analysis of data and insights across the Supply Chain. The ideal candidate will have experience in data handling and financial analysis along with a strong background in retail. This position offers the flexibility of hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Experience in end to end Supply Chain (Grocery, FMCG retailer ideal).
• Ability to work with ambiguous data and briefs.

Responsibilities

• Quality and timeliness of analysis, reporting and insight.
• Provide analytical support to develop business cases.
• Identification of trade offs and opportunities.
• Support improvements in productivity.

Skills

Data handling / Analytical skills

Financial acumen

Deep data and analytical experience in Supply Chain

Highly process and data driven

Experience in benefit tracking

Job description

Apply on JLP Jobs - the official careers website for John Lewis Partnership, John Lewis & Partners, and Waitrose & Partners.

About the role

As a Partner in our business your number one focus is to work collaboratively to create more value for our customers and our business, driving distribution performance to deliver the partnership plan. As Distribution Performance Analyst, you will create accurate and high quality reporting and performance insight to understand and improve productivity performance across the Waitrose Distribution P&L and inform stakeholders’ decision making. Working with Supply Chain colleagues you will form the basis of operational decisions made in the Supply Chain where the operational impact and costs of change are being assessed and understood. You will enhance the development of solutions to improve business performance and mitigate identified issues across multiple areas. Alongside supporting operational performance, you will input into longer term development initiatives and projects. You’ll apply commercial expertise, external market awareness and judgement in order to perform complex analysis/scenario modelling and you’ll be an expert in building dynamic and slick financial models based on a sometimes ambiguous brief or data set. You will work across the Supply Chain as well as with a range of stakeholders within the Partnership, and externally such as suppliers and third party logistics providers.

At a glance

Official Partnership role title: Distribution Performance and Budgeting Analyst

Salary: Up to £65,000, Annual depending on experience.

Contract type: This position is a Permanent role

Location: This role is based at our Bracknell Head Office.

Working pattern/flexible working - The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The Supply Chain Performance & Budgeting team aim for around 2 days a week in the office/on site at our distribution centres to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings.

Key responsibilities

• Quality and timeliness of analysis, reporting and insight that drive measurable evidence of improvements to financial performance and costs in the Supply Chain
• Provide analytical support to develop business cases for the Supply Chain strategic portfolio and change programmes and track benefit delivery
• Identification and effective surfacing of trade offs and opportunities - operational improvement within Supply Chain and beyond
• Quality of analysis to support improvements in productivity through effective and proactive identification of risks and opportunities, as well as effective assessment of impact of operational change in Waitrose

Essential skills/experience you’ll need

• Deep data and analytical experience in end to end Supply Chain (Grocery, FMCG retailer ideal)
• Highly process and data driven
• Experience in benefit tracking and monitoring
• Data handling / Analytical skills, ability to work with ambiguous data and briefs
• Financial acumen

Desirable skills/experience you may have

• Experience developing business cases
• Good understanding of BI and Data Warehouses

Various full-time, 35 hours, this can be discussed later in the recruitment process

The partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note

Important points to note: Some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications, and therefore, we recommend you apply early. If you require a reasonable adjustment due to a disability which means you may need longer to complete your application please contact us as soon as possible.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.