Head of Retail Development - Co-op Wholesle

£105,000 (Work Level 4) plus excellent benefits

In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between Scunthorpe and home (find out more about our hybrid working policy at jobs.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

In line with the Internal Mobility Policy, we’d like to make you aware that there is a preferred candidate who has been identified for this opportunity.

We’re looking for a Head of Retail Development to join Co-op Wholesale.Since 1977, we’ve championed independent retailers to thrive with Nisa – and now, we’re entering a bold new chapter as Co-op Wholesale. It’s the same spirit, with bigger ambition: bringing the power of Co-op to more local businesses than ever. And with that, exciting opportunities are on the rise, like this one.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for the design and delivery of the Co-op Wholesale retail development change programme. You’ll work to drive improved capability and effective ways of working across Co-op Wholesale. We’ll look to you to make sure there is increased adherence to brand, improved loyalty, and an improvement to profitability.

What you’ll do

• Be responsible for the design and delivery of the retail development change programme, deploying it through existing teams to positively impact retailer loyalty
• Design and deliver processes and ways of working that ensure proposition adherence, brand standard application, and sustainable sales values that drive profit per customer
• Lead the implementation of profit recovery work with retailers, ensuring full collaboration with legal and finance teams to mitigate risks
• Design and deliver the ‘Value Add Programme’ for Co-op Wholesale to provide retailer value to key convenience partnerships
• Address retailer challenges, managing necessary shrinking to grow, collaborating across the leadership community and with Customer Experience teams
• Act as a change leader, working closely with business-as-usual functional owners

This role would suit people who have

• Experience working in a wholesale environment
• Experience in independent retailer trade activation and transformational change with propositions and the field
• The ability to operate up to board level, with the confidence to influence and challenge senior partners
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, whilst always being customer focused

Why Co-op?

Here you’ll do work that matters. We’re a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit, you’ll have an opportunity to help us build a stronger Co-op and stronger communities. You’ll also get a package that includes:

• A company car or £6,000 car allowance
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• 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 – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Grocery Aid – 24/7 access to a range of emotional, financial, and practical support services for you and your family

Building an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

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.

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 and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

Please be aware that we may close applications for this role early