Marks & Spencer
Location Planning Manager
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What You Will Do
- Lead the development of the store estate strategy across the East of England and North East London, providing expert insight and recommendations.
- Assess opportunities for new stores, relocations, extensions, closures and estate optimisation through detailed location planning analysis.
- Analyse large and complex data sets to identify trends, opportunities and risks that support investment and estate decisions.
- Develop and present business cases for property initiatives, ensuring recommendations are commercially robust and strategically aligned.
- Build strong partnerships with Retail Regional Managers and key stakeholders across Property, Finance, Customer Insight and Store Development teams.
Who You Will Be
- An analytical and commercially focused professional with experience in location planning, market analysis or a related discipline.
- Curious about customer behaviour, retail trends and the factors that influence store performance.
- Confident working independently while managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
- A strong communicator who can translate complex analysis into clear and actionable recommendations.
- Comfortable influencing stakeholders at all levels, including presenting findings and proposals to senior leaders.
What You Will Bring
- Experience delivering analytical projects using large data sets and multiple data sources.
- Strong technical and analytical skills, ideally including experience with GIS platforms, sales forecasting models or predictive analytics.
- Experience using tools such as Excel, Power BI, SQL, Python, Alteryx or similar analytical software.
- An understanding of business case development and financial appraisal techniques.
- Excellent stakeholder management, presentation and relationship-building skills.
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What’s in it for you
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever-evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value and service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
- 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days.
- Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
- A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
- A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
- Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
- Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues, including our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist for you and your family.
- A charity volunteer day to support a cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
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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.
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