Overview
Menswear – Lead Trading Manager –
Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.
Summary
We are looking for a dynamic and strategic leader to drive the Retail vision within our Business Unit. This role is pivotal in shaping and delivering the BU strategy, trading plans, and customer-focused initiatives to achieve commercial success.
You will act as the voice of Retail, ensuring alignment across all functions and delivering exceptional results for our customers and stores.
All the details
What You Will Do
- Shape Strategy: Contribute to BU strategic planning, influence stock planning and customer availability, and align BU strategy with new store openings.
- Drive Trading Performance: Lead the national delivery of the Fashion, Home & Beauty sales plan, collaborate on events and campaigns, and identify medium/long-term opportunities to boost commercial performance.
- Champion the Customer: Use customer insights and marketing data to inform activity, ensure effective communications to stores, and deliver layouts tailored to customer missions.
- Enable People & Collaboration: Build strong relationships with Store Directors, Regional Managers, and cross-functional teams to create collaborative ways of working.
- Manage Financial Controls: Support BU budgeting, identify trading opportunities, and champion cost-saving initiatives to improve efficiency.
Who You Are
- Experienced leader with a background in Senior Store or Regional Management.
- Skilled in building strong business relationships and influencing stakeholders at all levels.
- Passionate about customers and knowledgeable about shopping trends and market insights.
- Commercially astute with strong decision-making and judgment skills.
- Resilient, agile, and adaptable to change with excellent planning and organisational abilities.
- Confident communicator who can challenge and influence effectively.
- Familiar with FHB operations and the M&S Way, with a proven ability to deliver results.
What’s in it for you?
Working at M&S means being part of something bigger – helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.
Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:
- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you
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.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
