We're transforming our Food business across Ireland, protecting everything customers love about M&S while building a simpler, faster and more efficient supply chain. From launching new products to supporting major trading events, our team plays a critical role in ensuring customers can find the products they want, when they want them.
The Ireland Supply Chain team sits at the heart of the business, connecting stores, support centre teams and suppliers to drive great outcomes for customers. It's a fast-paced environment where you'll have the opportunity to influence decisions, solve problems and make a visible impact across the operation.
As a Supply & Demand Planner, you'll play a key role in keeping products available for customers across Ireland. Working closely with suppliers, stores and cross functional teams, you'll use data, insight and commercial understanding to forecast demand, manage stock and respond to changing customer needs. This is an opportunity to shape decisions, improve performance and contribute to a growing and highly visible part of the M&S Food business.
Due to high interest, this role may close earlier than advertised. We recommend applying as soon as possible.
What you’ll do
- Manage stock and availability across Ireland, making informed decisions to balance customer demand, operational priorities and commercial performance.
- Analyse complex demand and trading data to make effective forecasting decisions in a fast moving retail environment.
- Influence suppliers and stakeholders across Ireland and the UK to drive improvements in availability, service and waste performance.
- Support seasonal events, promotions and product launches, helping the business trade successfully throughout the year.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, challenge existing ways of working and drive better operational outcomes.
Who you are
- Bring proven experience in supply chain planning, forecasting, replenishment or a highly analytical role where you've used data to influence business decisions.
- Make well considered decisions when faced with competing priorities, ambiguity and changing trading conditions.
- Use data confidently to generate insight, solve problems and support effective decision making.
- Influence stakeholders at different levels, using insight, expertise and data to drive better decisions.
- Work effectively in a fast paced environment where priorities can change quickly and continuous improvement is expected.
What’s in it for you?
Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.
Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:
- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you
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.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
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Skills Required
- Proven experience in supply chain planning, forecasting, replenishment or a highly analytical role
- Ability to make considered decisions amid competing priorities, ambiguity and changing trading conditions
- Confident use of data to generate insight, solve problems and support decision making
- Ability to influence stakeholders at different levels using insight and expertise
- Ability to work effectively in a fast paced environment with changing priorities and a focus on continuous improvement
What We Do
At M&S, we're dedicated to being the most trusted retailer, prioritising quality and delivering value. Every day, we bring the magic of M&S to our customers, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us. For over a century, we've set the standard, doing the right thing and embracing innovation. Today, with over 65,000 colleagues serving 32 million customers globally, we're putting quality products at the heart of everything we do. Tomorrow holds boundless opportunities with us. We're pioneering digital innovation and shaping the future of retail where our values drive every action. We stay close to customers and colleagues, always curious and connected. Our decisions are bold, our actions ambitious. Transparency is paramount, with straightforward, honest communication. We're constantly innovating, always striving for the best. Our focus is on aiming higher and winning together, combined with wise financial decisions to secure our future. Join us at M&S to shape the future of retail.
