Head of Commercial

£130,000 to £140,000 plus excellent benefits including up to 10% employer pension contribution, private healthcare for you and your family, and a company car or £8,000 car allowance (Work Level 3)

Manchester city centre, in this role you will work in a hybrid way (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy )

We’re looking for a motivated Head of Commercial to join us at Co-op. In this role, you’ll work as part of our Senior Leadership team to lead Co-op’s multichannel Commercial functions, developing and delivering mid to long-term strategy and commercial success in line with our vision and values.

It’s a big job, and people leadership, strategic thinking and commercial awareness will be key to success. It’s a great time to join the team, and if you have the skills we need, then we can offer you the chance to shape the way that we work in a really exciting and high-profile area of our business.

What you’ll do

• Act as a key member and contributor of Co-op’s Senior Leadership team, taking accountability for the delivery of circa. £9.5bn sales per annum
• Help to set the strategic direction of the business via the 5-year business plan, actively representing Co-op’s proposition externally, and fuelling growth and investment, while being fully accountable and responsible for the profit delivery of Food
• Empower leaders in the team to contribute to the strategy and execution of profit delivery, as well as collaborating with Co-op leaders across Food, Wholesale, Ecommerce, Franchise and other teams across our wider Co-op

This role would suit people who have

• Excellent communication skills across all channels, with proven experience of translating technical / complex matters into simple and accessible language
• Significant knowledge and experience within Commercial
• Leadership skills, and the ability to engage, inspire and motivate colleagues within a reporting line and across the wider Co-op
• Great influencing skills with the ability to interpret Co-op’s Food strategy and translate into priorities for commercial delivery

Why Co-op?

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• Company car / car allownace
• 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 app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
• YuLife app – rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

Building a diverse environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. 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