Overall Purpose:

Driving forward our capacity and growth agenda with smart, robust and perceptive data based decisions and recommendations. Embrace a variety of analytical and modelling techniques to shape and challenge the thinking within retail, property and the wider business – allowing our channels to grow at pace.

Knowledge Required – What you’ll be doing

DRIVE PROFITABLE SALES GROWTH

• Responsible for ensuring that key databases and analytical tools uses across the Delivered Sales team are kept up to date, with clean data that reconciles to internal and external sources. Develop and maintain our suite of databases to ensure they are user friendly and fit for purpose
• Identify and drive forward capacity enabling initiatives across the Delivered Sales Operations and Delivered Sales Operational Development teams. Employ strong analytical capabilities to quantify the size of the prize and our priorities
• Identify opportunities within the Online operating model and space utilisation to release additional capacity across the network
• Apply your advanced GIS skills to continually refine our network territories – balancing capacity, productivity and operational priorities. Work collaboratively with the Analytics, Planning and Retail teams to successfully implement territory changes

INNOVATION AND GREAT EXPERIENCE FOR OUR CUSTOMERS

• Plan and forecast growth projection for future capacity planning, built up from an innovative demand model. Ensure we can understand who the Online shopper is, where they live and how likely they are to shop with ourselves or competitors
• Develop and maintain a model to measure and track our network capacity in-order to inform our investment strategy. Understand and capture the operational realities (demand profiles, changing consumer trends, and productivity movements) to ensure we can model capacity accurate

KEEPING THINGS SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT TO REDUCE COSTS

• Identify and drive forward capacity enabling initiatives across the Delivered Sales Operations and Delivered Sales Operational Development teams. Employ strong analytical capabilities to quantify the size of the prize and our priorities
• Improve the efficiency of processes used by building and automating models using Visual Basic, SAS, Alteryx and associated tools as well as incorporating a spatial approach through the use of GIS
• Apply your skills and analytical capabilities to support other Online strategic priorities, potentially outside of the team (e.g. within Planning, Forecasting and Analytics). Champion the tools and benefits of spatial analytics and be the lead GIS user across the group.
• You’ll support the development and use of GIS tools.

Skills Required – How I do my job

MY JOB

• Provides long and short term direction to team by sharing Iceland’s plans, continually reviewing performance.
• Understands the root cause of problems and creates proactive solutions to drive a customer service culture.
• Responsible for ensuring the capacity and demand model used within Online are regularly updated with robust and accurate information; ensuring that models are used to their optimum to improve both the quality & efficiency of output
• Business cases for efficiency driving projects delivered to a high standard, communicating requirements and benefits in a clear, concise, easily understandable manner within agreed deadlines
• Drive the development of database enhancements to improve our knowledge base and the quality of the analysis going into strategic decisions
• Work with other members of the team to improve the timeliness and content of information used in Online Property

MY TEAM

• Is focussed to train, coach and develops others to provide a talent pool for the future.
• Manages the team’s performance with focus on efficiency and productivity holding direct reports accountable.

MYSELF

• Demonstrates high levels of self-awareness and accepts accountability to drive their personal development.
• Takes responsibility and ownership for company decisions, driving personal change with pace and urgency.
• You’re highly numerate with first-rate analytical skills.
• You have an eye for the detail and able to spot trends, themes and ideas that don’t always easily stand out.
• Able to work with large data sets and digest accordingly.
• You can work with multiple teams and support their analytical requirements – particularly where spatial modelling is required.
• You’re able translate desktop analysis to operational reality.
• Ability to combine analytical perspectives with a pragmatic approach.
• You can apply inventive analytical solutions to help shape our Online Property strategy.
• You’ll be able to challenge and stretch thinking beyond business as usual.
• A strong interest in grocery and online retail

MY ICELAND

• Proactively prepares others within their network for change to manage resistance positively.
• Has effective relationships with managers, customers and departments to get things done.

Attitude – “How I am in my job”

• I demonstrate pride in the Iceland brand through my actions
• I focus first on the customer offering
• I openly and actively challenge myself and others to make things simpler and better
• I create and show positivity whilst accepting the reality of the situation
• I make business decisions to deliver the pace and urgency required in others

Specialised Skills & Knowledge

• How to use Excel to an advanced level
• Experience of designing and building complex models and simulations: Excel, SAS, Visual Basic, Alteryx
• Very strong knowledge of GIS (MapInfo preferable)
• Good PowerPoint capabilities
• Experience of working in an analytical roles and applying spatial insight methods
• Expert knowledge of statistical modelling and analysis techniques
• How to present complex analysis in clear and engaging ways to senior stakeholders
• The make-up UK Grocery market and it’s online operators
• Demonstrate good understanding of how Delivered Sales works in stores at an operational, organisational and cultural level, and use this to develop relationships and capacity / growth opportunities

• Join a leading Australian retail brand
• High impact role supporting our continued growth
• Visa sponsorship & relocation assistance to Melbourne

About Coles

We’re one of Australia’s leading retail organisations. For over 100 years, we’ve been a highly regarded and much-loved part of Australian life. And while we’re immensely proud of our history, we’re also very excited about our future growth. This is a unique opportunity for you to join some of the greatest minds in global retail and enjoy the relaxed lifestyle that we’re famous for Down Under.

Today, Coles is one of Australia’s iconic retailers, providing a range of fresh food, groceries, general merchandise, liquor, and fuel to millions of customers every week. We have a combination of over 2,500 retail outlets across Australia covering Cole’s supermarkets, Coles Express fuel and convenience sites, liquor stores under Liquor land, Vintage Cellars and First
Choice Liquor branding. While some things have changed over the years, one thing remains the same – our customer first strategy. We have over 112,000 fantastic team members across the country that are focused on making life easier for our customers and making a difference to the communities we serve every day.

Our property team looks after one of the most dynamic portfolios in the country. Working with teams across the business, we provide a range of services from location planning, site acquisition, leasing, and renewals, through to development, construction, and asset management. We’re growing too, so it’s a great time to jump on board and build your career.

What you’ll be doing

Here at Coles Group, we have ambitious store opening plans for our Liquor brands!

Reporting to the Head of Location Planning, you will be at the heart of this growth story as you advise where to open new stores across and determine the level of sales that they could generate across our Food, Liquor and Fuel businesses.

This role is accountable for setting new space targets for multiple Liquor brands (Liquor land, Vintage Cellars, First Choice Liquor Market). Producing an ambitious network plan to provide a pool of opportunities from which future space, sales and profit growth can be drawn will be pivotal to the success of this position.

You will also:

• Present property proposals and insight to varied senior managers
•  Produce strategic reports to senior stakeholders on a regular basis
• Lead a small driven team and support the future development of this team
• Manage a detailed and actionable post investment reviews on all major capex decisions
• Partner strongly with senior stakeholders with relevant stakeholders across the group.

Good things you’ll need

We are looking for someone who has comprehensive location or network planning experience with developed leadership skills to manage a small of skilled analysts.

You’ll also need:

• Relevant tertiary qualification; Geography, Town Planning, Economics, Property etc.
• Previous location or network planning experience, preferably with a large retailer or specialist retail/ property consultancy
• Clear demonstration of driving change processes within a team
• Presenting property proposals and insight to Board Directors/ General Managers
• Strong ability to lead and develop a team
• Comprehensive skills in analysing data, conducting reviews, and trending results to identify and drive sales building opportunities
• Confidence to voice your own opinion and provide independent advice

Please note that applications will close on Sunday 15th May.

Given the state/ territory of the position you are applying for, and to enable Coles to provide a safe environment for its team members, there may be a requirement for you to receive a COVID-19 vaccination before commencing work for Coles, unless you are medically exempt.

Given this, you will be required to disclose your COVID-19 vaccination status as part of your application for employment with Coles. You may be required to provide further evidence of vaccination status as part of your application.

At GEOLYTIX we seek new and innovative ways to make spatial analytics accessible, exciting and indispensable.  Our customers span the retail, financial, property, leisure and food & beverage industries, across the world.

We build innovative solutions to support our clients to make better decisions combining various forecasting methods and statistical models, GIS and web tools to create bespoke solutions.  We are always looking to do things better.

We have fun and value every member of our team.

Are you our next Location Planning Partner?

The role of the Location Planning Partner is to be the key link between our customers and the rest of the Geolytix team.

The Location Planning Partner understands and can articulate the art and science of location analysis and is passionate about its value in decision making.  They also understand the broader context of our customers businesses and how location analysis fits within that.

About You

• You will be able to interact comfortably with our customers, interpreting their needs and engaging senior management
• You can deliver clear, engaging written and verbal presentations and papers, communicating across all types of stakeholders
• You have strong analytical skills and can integrate and interpret quantitative and qualitative data to produce practical and commercially relevant outputs
• You know your way around a GIS and understand a variety of forecasting techniques
• You want to be original and are consistently looking for innovation
• You enjoy the world of retail, and have a good grasp of geography
• You’re a people person, building relationships with colleagues and clients as you lead projects

Your qualifications and experience

• Around 2-3 years location planning experience
• A university degree – ideally geography, town planning, economics, statistics or similar
• Relevant industry sector knowledge ideal but not essential
• A strong communicator with the ability to work with colleagues and clients remotely across the globe
• Be able to provide evidence of attention to detail, proactivity and managing deadlines

Other stuff

Our offices are in Leeds and Clerkenwell, London. The role can be located in either. Competitive salary. We’re a young and growing company who embrace flexible working; full time or part time, family friendly hours and/or working from home days considered.

Interested?

If you are interested in this role and are looking for your next challenge, please send your CV and cover letter to careers@geolytix.co.uk.

You can also find out more about the company and this role on the Geolytix website here: Are you our next location planner?

No agencies please.

Make a positive difference to a top FTSE 100 Retailer’s Property Team

Sainsbury’s Property division is responsible for all Sainsbury’s trading and non-trading property assets, including supermarkets, convenience stores, Argos and offices, industrial and retail depots. It all adds up to give us responsibility for the 4th largest retail estate by number of shops (Over 2,100, and still growing) and the 2nd largest by floor area.

As a Senior Location Planner you’ll draw on market intelligence, location planning expertise and commercial understanding to recommend appropriate investment to satisfy customer demand across all channels – Supermarkets, Convenience, Online, Argos and other brands. You’ll have an opportunity to play a key part in setting the strategy for assigned regions in terms of both new space requirements and use of existing space.

To be successful in this role you’ll need to demonstrate excellent analytical skills and expertise in location planning or/and site research techniques combined with understanding of customer needs.

More about the role:

• Utilise market data and a thorough understanding of performance of Sainsbury’s estate to define and evolve a network strategy across all channels (for assigned regions) that delivers optimum access to the UK market.
• Proactively identify growth opportunities and priority areas for investment.
• Be an expert on retail landscape and population and demographic change in relevant regions, with good general working knowledge of remainder of UK. Use this expertise to proactively undertake analysis that provides direction for wider business.
• Leverage strong engagement skills to achieve buy-in from wider business, presenting recommendations with authority at relevant forums.
• Challenge proposals that do not meet network strategy requirements or are not in the best strategic interests of the company.
• Lead improvements in methodology and processes.
• Stay abreast of output of Post Implementation Review sessions for new stores, identifying any emerging trends in performance for geographies or location types etc. Ensure any learnings related to methodologies/processes used in Location Planning team are embedded and communicated to wider teams as appropriate.
• Prioritise & manage location planning requirements for assigned regions.
• Work in partnership with Property Development to drive delivery of the Property Strategy, recommending priority areas for investment.
• Manage provision of accurate sales forecasts for new stores, extensions and trade transfers to deadlines.
• Role model best practice in line management of assigned Location Planner.
• Contribute to development of wider team.

More about you:

• Experience of location planning / site research techniques, applications and approaches.
• Excellent analytical skills, combined with a good understanding of customer needs.  Recognition that the customer is at the heart of all capital investment decisions.
• Ability to integrate quantitative (nectar data, segmentation, etc.) and qualitative information (retail feedback, customer research, etc.) to support investment decisions
• Ability to communicate complex analysis clearly to colleagues from different disciplines and build long-term, collaborative engagement with stakeholders across the business.
• Experience communicating analysis and recommendations to senior management.
• Willing and able to challenge accepted practices and processes
• Good planning, organisational and prioritisation skills
• Highly numerate
• Experience of GIS
• Valid driving licence

Benefits:

As a Senior Location Planner you’ll receive a host of great benefits. As well as a competitive salary, rewarding bonus scheme and private healthcare, you will receive a huge range of learning and development opportunities, generous holiday, access to a save-as-you-earn scheme, pension scheme and staff discounts at Argos, Sainsbury’s and Habitat.

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

PLEASE TELL THEM, YOU HEARD ABOUT THIS JOB HERE FIRST!

We are looking for a Property Analysis Manager to join us for 12 months Fixed Term Contract.

In this role, you will…

Provide strategic geographical and financial analysis and presentation support to our European Property department across UK, Eire, Germany, Poland, Austria & Netherlands plus future new markets. This role will require strong presentation skills and an ability to formulate and debate an opinion with objectivity and confidence with senior leaders across Europe.

This role will also involve working closely with other areas of the business including Merchandising, Marketing and Business Planning & Analysis (BP&A). This role may require travel across Europe for meetings and site visits.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for all geographical analysis to the Property, Finance, Marketing and Merchandising team to support decisions on new stores, relocations and expansions across UK, Eire, Germany, Poland, Austria & Netherlands plus future new markets using MapInfo Geographical Information System (GIS) software
• Responsible for preparing demographic and financial analysis for monthly Property Board Meetings
• Develop strong working relationships with Property team based in UK and Germany to maintain and update our Property Strategy across Europe for each fascia and country and support investment in new locations across Europe
• Work with Property Acquisition team to forecast ‘Sales Steal’ (Cannibalisation) impacts for new store openings, and work with BP&A/Merchandising post-opening to continually develop our understanding and refine our forecasting capability
• Manage Customer Postcode Capture Process each year (Agree timings, liaise with Ops/IT/Marketing on set-up, monitor weekly compliance, process raw data, generate customer catchments and customer profiles, share findings across business)
• Responsible for all data and analysis within our GIS software (MapInfo). Manage the software and data budget to ensure maximum value
• Develop a strong working relationship with external providers of data/software to understand market developments
• Maintain Demographic data (e.g. Population, Purchasing Power) within Property ‘Store Database’ and share with BP&A, Store Ops, Merchandising, Marketing
• Ensure key data e.g. Shopping Population by Town is updated/shared amongst the Property Acquisition Team across Europe

Key Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Excellent working knowledge of MapInfo and associated data
• Strong Presentation skills, ability to present to senior leaders
• Demonstrates objectivity and confidence in challenging circumstances, particularly when discussing decisions and strategy with senior leaders
• Strong analytical skills – can hold multiple perspectives in-mind and incorporates opposing perspectives to drive strategic decision-making
• Ability to build productive working relationships with peers and senior leaders
• Customer focused with great communication skills – shares outputs, decisions and examples to help explain decision-making
• Ability to work in fast paced, evolving environment – can work in the grey and use cross-functional knowledge to help make well-informed decisions
• Stays up-to-date with market and future trends, investing time to think strategically and using insights to inform future strategy

PLEASE TELL THEM, YOU HEARD ABOUT THIS JOB HERE FIRST!

UK Commercial Strategy Consultancy, Central London

Seeking an experienced data scientist to play a pivotal role in developing a new asset management analytics platform for the global commercial real estate market

• 5+ years’ experience in data science & analytics, uncovering strategic insights and improvements in business practices with SQL and Python proficiency
• Track record in drawing insights from a broad range of key business datasets, developing appropriate data visualisation outputs that communicate trends & predictions (Tableau, PowerBI & Excel)
• Experience in project performance and analysis, with management of the data research & execution process
• Collaborative mindset to work with the consulting team, clients, and various stakeholders

Contact Steve Halsall at steve@redtigerconsulting.co.uk to discuss this role

You will need the following experience:

• Manage index production of property investment data
• Write reports on the analysis
• Client-facing role with great networking into international investment companies
• Would suit property researcher with desire to manage teams

Contact Paul Halsall at paul@redtigerconsulting.co.uk to discuss this role

UK Commercial Strategy Consultancy, Central London

Seeking an experienced consultant in retail and commercial property to join a growing team, with project management and client relationship responsibility.

• 3-5 years’ experience in the property sector, with strong knowledge of the UK retail sector
• Ability to deliver across multiple projects of varying size
• Proven background in handling and managing data sources and insights
• A track record in team leadership responsibilities

Contact Steve Halsall at steve@redtigerconsulting.co.uk to discuss this role

International Real Estate Advisor, Hybrid/London

Seeking an experienced individual with a location strategy background to work on wide-ranging retail & leisure projects

• 6+ years’ experience in location analytics with skills in GIS, demography & property data (Power BI knowledge would be advantageous)
• Track record in delivering client consultancy projects, including pitch/presentation support to wider retail team and ability to manage multiple projects
• Creative & collaborative mindset for working on team projects and business initiatives with key interest in the retail & leisure sectors
• Ability to research and produce market insights from various data sources across Europe.

Contact Steve Halsall at steve@redtigerconsulting.co.uk to discuss this role