Location Planning and Assessment Manager

About the role

This is an exciting time to join our Estate Planning team, as Waitrose looks to open new shops and relocate existing in service of our Partnership Estate strategy. As a Location Planning and Assessment Manager, you will support the estate assessment and identify areas for new growth, utilising your own initiative, judgement and recommendations. This is a unique opportunity to support strategic decision-making and contribute significantly to our estate's success. Join us in this dynamic environment where your skills and expertise will make a tangible difference.

In addition to your contractual pay, any time worked between 22:00 - 06:00 will attract Night Premium at a rate of £5.00 per hour. This will also apply to existing Partners who have enrolled onto Enhanced Hours Premium arrangements.

• Expected Salary: £46,500 - £63,000 per annum
• Contract type: This position is a temporary contract with an expected end date of 03/01/2027.
• Working pattern/flexible working: This is a hybrid working role, therefore your time will primarily be split between working from home and the Head Office. Additionally, regular site visits will be required nationwide.
• Location: This role can be based in Bracknell or London.

Please note: A full UK driving license is required to fulfil the travel requirements of the role.
 
Key responsibilities:

• Recommending sales forecasts for new store locations identified by our Property Acquisitions Managers
• Managing forecasting tools and external suppliers to develop necessary tools, setting briefs, and ensuring compliance with service level agreements.
• Collaborating with finance, customer, and real estate teams to review the performance of new space openings, analysing reasons for over and under performance.
• Using insights from performance reviews to suggest improvements to the opening process, forecasting, and propositions.
• Contributing to strategic business projects with spatial considerations, providing clear recommendations through analytical techniques.
• Evaluating the impact of online growth on physical estate sales forecasting.

Essential skills you’ll need 

• Catchment analysis and location planning experience in a retail environment
• Use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
• Advanced Excel skills to undertake financial analysis 
• Good communication skills- will be preparing and delivering presentations
• Project Management experience
• Ability to influence upwardly stakeholders
• Full UK driving license

Desirable skills/experience you may have

• Experience of grocery opening programmes in the convenience sector
• Experience defining and continually updating target locations for retailer
   

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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:  

It’s important to note that 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. 

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