Assistant Own Brand Manager

We're looking for an Assistant Own Brand Manager to join the Own Brand team, within the retail support centre. The team is involved in strategic planning for the food business, helping to set its own brand direction and goals. In this role, you'll be at the forefront of the food business. It's a big role, and if you have the creative mind-set and real passion for retail that we need, we can offer you an exciting chance to create a big impact, while developing your skills and gaining a wealth of experience. What you'll do

• Lead projects and tasks to deliver own brand goals and targets.
• Take ownership of key categories by building relationships with the commercial and category teams to ensure own brand strategy is delivered.
• Ensure delivery and enforcement of own brand guardrails
• Utilise and understand data and use it to inform and support decision making
• work cross functionally, communicating with a range of internal and external colleagues
  
  A strategic and organised approach with good time management skills
• The confidence to engage and challenge colleagues at all levels of the business
• A resilient and hard-working mind-set, with experience handling a high-volume workload
• Strong analytical skills and good numerical ability
• Good general IT skills with the ability to use programmes in the Microsoft Office Suite comfortably (such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
  
  At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.
Building a diverse environment We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job. We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply. If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

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 bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn