AT A GLANCE

Official Partnership role title: Distribution Performance and Budgeting Analyst
Salary - Up to £65,000, Annual depending on experience.
Contract type - This position is a Permanent role
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 Supply Chain Performance & Budgeting team aim for around 2 days a week in the office/ on site at our distribution centres to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings.
Location - This role is based at our Bracknell Head Office.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE YOU’LL NEED

• Deep Distribution financial, budgeting and P&L development experience within a retail environment
• Deep data and analytical experience in a complex, Grocery retailer Highly process and data driven
• Experience in benefit tracking and monitoring
• Data handling / Analytical skills, ability to work with ambiguous data and briefs

DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE YOU MAY HAVE

• Experience developing business cases
• Experience in Finance or a Financial Qualification
• Good understanding of BI and Data Warehouses

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Partner in our business your number one focus is to work collaboratively to create more value for our customers and our business, driving distribution performance to deliver the partnership plan. As Distribution Performance Analyst, you will create accurate and high quality reporting and performance insight to understand and improve productivity performance across the Waitrose Distribution P&L and inform stakeholders decision making. Working with Supply Chain colleagues you will form the basis of operational decisions made in the Supply Chain where the operational impact and costs of change are being assessed and understood. You will enhance the development of solutions to improve business performance and mitigate identified issues across multiple areas. Alongside supporting operational performance, you will input into longer term development initiatives and projects. You’ll apply commercial expertise, external market awareness and judgement in order to perform complex analysis/scenario modelling and you’ll be an expert in building dynamic and slick financial models based on a sometimes ambiguous brief or data set. You will work across the Supply Chain as well as with a range of stakeholders within the Partnership, and externally such as suppliers and third party logistics providers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Quality and timeliness of analysis, reporting and insight that drive measurable evidence of improvements to financial performance & costs in the Supply Chain
• Provide analytical support to develop business cases for the Supply Chain strategic portfolio and change programmes and track benefit delivery
• Identification and effective surfacing of trade offs and opportunities - operational improvement within Supply Chain and beyond
• Quality of analysis to support improvements in productivity through effective and proactive identification of risks and opportunities, as well as effective assessment of impact of operational change in WR