Are you passionate about the power of data, algorithms, and predictive modelling to transform how retailers plan, buy and trade? Do you love solving complex business problems and turning them into intelligent product solutions? If you’ve worked in demand forecasting, merchandising, data science, or planning systems within fashion, food or general merchandise, this could be your next big move.
We’re building a next generation AI powered Planning Platform as part of our multiyear transformation, modernising how we plan ranges, forecast demand and make decisions across FH&B. This Product Manger role will own the Demand Forecasting product, shaping the future of how we use machine learning, data science and advanced algorithms to deliver better accuracy, more agility, and improved sell through.
This is a chance to help shape one of the most impactful products in our end-to-end transformation, and to bring modern forecasting to life at the scale of one of the UK’s most iconic retailers.
If this sounds like you, or someone you know, we would love to hear from you? Come help us build the future of planning at M&S.
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.
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, 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.
What you’ll do
Your key accountabilities will include
Lead the product vision for our forecasting module, from strategy to execution
Work closely with roles across the Planning Platform programme and stakeholders such as merchandising & supply chain teams
Translate complex forecasting problems into clear and explainable business impacting product solutions
Improve model performance, interpret forecasting metrics, and drive user adoption
Build tools that help our colleagues make smarter, more confident, more data driven decisions
Who you are
Your skills and experience will include
- You’ve worked in retail forecasting, planning, trading, merchandising, supply chain, or analytics
- You understand seasonality, stock flow, promotions, trend patterns, launch curves, and store behavior
- You’re curious about machine learning and comfortable with data heavy product challenges
- You have a strong mathematical background and are comfortable working with numbers, patterns, and model outputs
- You have experience in and a genuine passion for data, machine learning, algorithms, and predictive modelling, and enjoy collaborating with data scientists and engineers
- You’re curious by nature and motivated to dig into the ‘why’ behind forecast changes and accuracy shifts
- You can explain complex technical concepts simply and bring cross functional teams with you
- You love building products that solve real world problems for real users
Everyone’s welcome
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.
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