Supply Chain Planning Analyst

Co-op; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused retailer in Manchester is seeking a Supply Chain Planning Analyst to optimize product availability. In this role, you'll analyze data to reduce wastage and forecast demand, impacting customer satisfaction and operational performance. The position offers a competitive salary and great benefits including holiday allowance and a pension plan.

Benefits

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Annual bonus based on performance

Pension with up to 10% employer contributions

Subsidised onsite gym access

30% off Co-op branded products

Qualifications

• Experience of working with large datasets, spotting trends and drawing insights.
• Ability to adapt and react to changes and conflicting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Track the performance of specific store formats and provide root cause analysis.
• Support strategic activities and make recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Analyse data for stores to enable informed decision making.

Skills

Outstanding relationship building and influencing skills

Excellent analytical skills

Strong Excel skills

Job description

Overview

Supply Chain Planning Analyst
From £34,000 to £41,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 6A)
5 over 7 days working pattern, with up to 8 weekend working days per year
Manchester city centre. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way, splitting your time between home and coming into the office for a minimum of two days a week.

We’re looking for Supply Chain Planning Analysts to join Co-op’s Supply Chain team. In this role, you’ll help optimise product availability for specific store formats —making sure our customers can access the products they need, when they need them. You’ll use your analytical skills to interpret data, reduce store wastage, and influence demand forecasting. It’s a great opportunity to build your expertise and understanding of how our stores and supply chain operates.

What you’ll do

• Track the performance of specific store formats and feedback issues to supply chain, logistics, providing root cause analysis and resolution
• Support any strategic activity and make recommendations on new initiatives to facilitate continuous improvement
• Analyse data for stores, using the insights to enable informed decision making and accurate forecasting
• Promote the importance of the profitability framework to stores
• Identify and resolve customer facing availability issues
• Build strong relationships based on confidence and trust with stores and across relevant functions within the supply chain
• Use your great communication skills to provide a framework for profitable sales and take onboard feedback

This role would suit people who have

• Outstanding relationship building and influencing skills with colleagues across multi functions
• Excellent analytical skills with experience of working with large datasets, spotting trends and drawing insights from these
• The ability to easily adapt and react to changes and conflicting priorities
• Strong Excel skills – including V-lookups, formulas, and pivot tables

Why this job matters

Availability and waste are two of the biggest challenges in retail supply chain—and this role tackles both. By ensuring our stores are stocked efficiently and sustainably, you’ll directly impact customer satisfaction, operational performance, and profitability. Your insights will help shape smarter forecasting and support continuous improvement across our estate. It’s a role where your work will be felt by colleagues, customers, and communities alike.

Why Co-op?

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development

Building a diverse environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme at Disability Confident Scheme - Co-op Colleagues and more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion at Diversity and Inclusion

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.

As part of your application, you\'ll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes up to 50 minutes. If you\'re a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.