Pricing and Promotions Manager

Summary
M&S Food is changing, and fast. We are redefining our business to be more relevant, more often to more people. Given the scale of the opportunity within the group, this is an exciting time to join us.

Reporting to the Snr Pricing & Promotions Manager, you'll be responsible for supporting the key strategic initiatives across Pricing & Promotions, synthesising and communicating key insights, and engaging stakeholders to secure buy-in.

We need motivated people who are ready to bring their whole self to work and give it their all in a fast-paced team committed to being the best. After all, this is not just food... This is M&S Food.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.
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What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - becoming a part and playing your part. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special...

• 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
• A first-class welcome to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development. Having options to progress is something we're proud of at M&S.
• Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal goals.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website. Including GymSave - that offers up to 25% off Gym Memberships and the option to become an M&S Shareholder using our ShareSave & ShareBuy Schemes
• Charity Volunteer Day - A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
• A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
• Every colleague at M&S has access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support - this includes access to our 24/7 Virtual GP, PAM Assist to support you & your family & free access to the UnMind App as well as many other schemes

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Act as a consultant on pricing and promotions strategy to other functions, develop frameworks and tools that help to deliver a consistent and data-led approach to pricing and promotions management and be an ambassador for strategic analysis and data-led decision making across the business.
• Drive key strategic pricing and promotions initiatives for the Food business e.g. Remarksable value, Dropped & Locked campaigns
• Form close working relationships with Trading teams to influence the development of a strategic approach to pricing and promotions, providing insight and pricing/promo recommendations
• Working closely with trading teams and external suppliers to maximise and improve the accuracy of our data and product matches to better reflect our true price position in the market.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Experience in Pricing & Promotions
• Ability to manage a variety of stakeholders, developing robust processes, eye for detail and ability to articulate findings
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with an excellent attention to detail and focus on quality/accuracy of output
• Analytical thinker with the ability to dissect complex problems and generate innovation solutions, including advanced Excel (e.g. logic, modelling)
• Desirable - experience with coding and querying large data sets (e.g. SQL, Python)

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