Commercial Planning Manager

We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love.

Role Purpose:

• Support the development of the Commercial long-term strategy, identifying new opportunities and solving complex business challenges.
• Ensure alignment of the Commercial strategy which will drive growth & profitability across all channels.

What’s the job?

• Responsible for the development framework, co-ordination and alignment of the commercial strategy within B&Q and Kingfisher.
• Provide recommendations on strategic initiatives, through analysis of insight and data.
• Build OKR capability within commercial; coaching teams to craft impactful OKR’s, strengthen cross functional alignment and ensure a regular cadence.
• Act as a SME on OKR knowledge, facilitating training and providing recommendations for frameworks and systemisation for reporting.
• Programme manage cross-functional teams in the implementation of strategic initiatives, providing support and guidance to ensure strategic priorities are integrated into day to day operations.
• Programme manage new business initiatives to support the delivery of the horizon strategy, providing regular updates to key stakeholders.
• Analyse new market trends, industry dynamics, competitor landscapes and emerging technologies to inform strategic decision making.
• Drive innovation in B&Q through highlighting and recommending new business opportunities and growth drivers.
• Represent commercial in cross functional strategic discussions, ensuring alignment on business initiatives.
• Lead and create Commercial presentations for the B&Q board, Kingfisher GE and PLC board, ensuring they are engaging, clear to understand and all data and information accurate.

Key Business Relationships:

• Work closely with the Commercial Director and D’ofs to facilitate an annual business planning cycle and craft annual OKR’s.
• Assist the commercial leadership team in delivering strategic priorities, tracking OKR’s and addressing business challenges.
• Ensure support of cross-functional teams to deliver business priorities.
• Collaborate with the Customer and Digital team to review data sources to make informed decisions and recommendations.
• Collaborate with the Finance team to review performance, identify profitable opportunities and build business recommendations.
• Continuously drive great stakeholder engagement across B&Q and Kingfisher, articulating plans, influencing peers and guiding the senior leadership team.
• Work collaboratively with the B&Q Strategy and PMO team.

Deliverables:

• Ensure development of strategic and comprehensive Category plans that drive significant evolvement of B&Q.
• Support the Commercial Director in developing a new working and engagement model for B&Q/O&S.
• Lead and embed the implementation of the new OKR framework and culture across the commercial function.

What we need:

• Strategic mindset with the ability to simplify complex problems.
• Ability to analyse data, draw insights/recommendations and translate them into realistic and implementable plans.
• Problem-solving skills, including being able to think creatively.
• Strong networking skills to ensure synergy and alignment in strategic initiatives.
• Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Robust programme management skills.
• Strong proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and Monday.com.

What’s in it for me?

As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are. We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business. We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!

So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk for any recruitment adjustments.