Supply Chain Analyst - Projects

Closing date : 10-10-2025 Supply Chain Planning Analyst

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.

Track the performance of specific store formats and feedback issues to supply chain, logistics, providing root cause analysis and resolution

• Analyse data for stores, using the insights to enable informed decision making and accurate forecasting
• Build strong relationships based on confidence and trust with stores and across relevant functions within the supply chain
• Outstanding relationship building and influencing skills with colleagues across multi functions
• The ability to easily adapt and react to changes and conflicting priorities
• Strong Excel skills – including V-lookups, formulas, and pivot tables

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.

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).

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.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk / apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme at Disability Confident Scheme - Co-op Colleagues and more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion at Diversity and Inclusion

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment.