Forecasting Manager
Hybrid
Bracknell, United Kingdom
Freelance
10-03-2025
Job Specifications
About The Role
Waitrose & Partners prides itself on being different. Our intention is to combine the convenience of a supermarket with the expertise and service of a specialist food shop. Add this to our unswerving dedication to our customers and the highest respect for our suppliers (the provenance and traceability of our food is vital) and, of course, the environment and you can start to see we’re a bit more than ‘just’ a supermarket. We are recruiting for a Forecasting Manager to join our Ambient Merchandising team in Beers, Wine, Spirits and Non Food.
About The Role
Salary - £49,600 - £74,900
Contract type - This is a Secondment/Fixed Term Contract position ending November 2025.
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 team aim for around 1-2 days a week in the office to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings.
Location - This role is based at our Bracknell Head Office.
Interviews - These will be held in person w/c 17th March.
What will you be doing?
As a Forecasting Manager, you will lead a CPG Forecasting team to deliver all elements of the forecasting plan, and the creation of accurate demand forecasts for all items, locations and demand streams, including ecommerce, ensuring that the team individually and collectively play a full part in the success of the CPG, and that the critical balance between availability, wastage and stock holding is achieved.
You will act as the technical expert and coach for your own team, ensuring consistent application of processes through coaching and development. Share this knowledge across other merchandising teams as appropriate, drawing on the skills and knowledge of the Super Users as necessary.
You will also support the Manager, Forecasting in setting the strategic direction of the trading directorate forecasting plan. Work with the wider Merchandising team to drive robust improvements and processes that contribute to the success of the department.
Essential Skills You’ll Need
Strong people management experience
Complex data and analytics
Stakeholder engagement
Leading others
About 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. If required, you’ll find out more about vetting throughout the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays.
We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.
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.
About the Company
We’re on a journey, an ongoing experiment to find happier, more trusted ways of doing business and all of our Partners have a part to play. By joining the Partnership you’ll be joining a different kind of business. One that seeks to make a difference, not just to its Partners, but to the lives of everyone. It’s this shared purpose that drives us, guides us, and we believe that by working together, in Partnership, we can help create a place with happier people, for a happier business and a happier world. #FindYourHappi... Know more
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