Job Description
Closing date:
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