Planner - Level 3

Join us on a 12-month fixed-term contract supporting the Central Planning Lead to deliver the end-to-end planning process across Fashion, Home & Beauty. You’ll help drive fully aligned sales and stock plans, ensuring combined Business Unit plans deliver against agreed strategic and commercial objectives.

Working cross-functionally from Merchandising and Marketing through to Product Development, Supply Chain and Space Planning, you’ll play a key role in coordinating planning activity, strengthening systems and reporting, and enabling a clear, consolidated FH&B view.

We’re looking for a commercially minded, results-focused planner with strong analytical skills and a collaborative approach to help power the next phase of our transformation.

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.

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, 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…

• After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 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 access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you’re passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

Your key accountabilities will include

• Monitor targets for made stock, intake, OTIF, cost of reductions and options management. Complete relevant data roll ups & collation to provide clear BU and C&H view on progress against targets, risks and opportunities.
• Support the BU Planning Manager by providing commercial information as required on trading activity e.g... Sale, promotional activity, seasonal planning, review summaries, weekly sales.
• Act as a central point of contact for issues relating to the merchandise planning and control process, including attribute management, IDL and RTW management.
• Assist in the planning and lockdown of each launch ensuring all issues are resolved with the Merchandisers. Monitor and report on OTIF, including status 3, ways vs targets and adherence to critical path.
• Complete the Commercial Review preparation as directed, providing the relevant analysis and commentary to the BU Planning Managers and Central Planning Lead.

Your skills and experience will include

• You will need to have good merchandising skills and a knowledge of IT systems and stock interdependencies.
• Strong numerical & analytical skills
• Identify risks, opportunities, and simplification of ideas
• Develop and enhance reporting tools and documentation.
• Provide data‑driven recommendations to optimise cost, availability, and performance.

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.