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Do you want to influence our long-term growth and success?\nTogether, we tackle business challenges, enhance our performance and unlock the true potential of our data to drive forward the supply chain function. We have exciting opportunities to join an expanding area of the business and play a pivotal role to create great availability to our existing and new customers. This role has a heavy influence on the future of Morrisons’ supply chain, you'll be working at a fast pace at the heart of decision making, using data and influence to make improvement and change!\nAs a member of our team, you will lead on building business rules-based algorithmic approaches to increase the accuracy, automation, and intelligence of settings and forecasts. You will own the project plan and timelines, manage risks and issues, and champion the project vision and outcomes.\nYou’ll be responsible for:\nLeadership: Leading, motivating, and coaching team members to drive technical competence and functional knowledge.\nStrategic Planning: Playing a pivotal role in creating the system development plan and dictating development priorities aligned with company objectives.\nExpert Oversight: Acting as an expert across store ordering, supplier ordering, demand forecasting, and pricing.\nStakeholder Influence: Presenting ideas and investment requirements to senior stakeholders and creating project plans for \"right first time\" implementation.\nOperational Excellence: Validating and managing forecast improvement developments to deliver availability and maximise efficiency while minimising stock and markdowns.\nInternal Conscience: Striking the balance between quality model development and diminishing returns to ensure business-focused solutions.\nMore about you\nWe are also looking for the following:\nProven Leadership: Experience in shaping and developing strategy and translating it into operational delivery.\nAdvanced Technical Skills: Strength in all areas of process, people, and data, including a proficient level of SQL and data manipulation tools.\nDomain Expertise: Strong understanding of all aspects of food supply chain and operational mechanics.\nChange Management: Experience implementing change into an operation and the ability to lead stakeholders through the change curve.\nProblem Solving: Ability to provide \"out of the box\" thinking and creative problem-solving to solve complex business problems \nMore about our perks\nWe value your hard work and commitment, and in return, we provide:\nPrivate healthcare\nCar Allowance\nGenerous holiday entitlement\nDiscretionary bonus scheme\n15% discount in our supermarkets and convenience stores from the day you join us\nAdditional 10% discount card for a friend or family member\nGenuine career progression and development opportunities - read more about our Leadership School here\nSubsidised staff canteen\nFree parking\nCompetitive pension and life assurance\nHealthcare / Wellbeing benefits including Aviva Digital GP\n'MyPerks' with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more\nOptional payroll charity donations\nA range of family-friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave\nAlive with activity, our modern Head Office is home to our corporate teams that make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, Morrisons Daily and a subsidised restaurant. We are within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - and we even have free parking!\nAt our Head Office you will expect to find supplier showcases, charity fundraising and celebrations all year round for the events that mean the most to our colleagues.\nThere’s more to our business as it’s fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve got lots of fresh opportunities for you to play your part in our success. 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