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Wholesale Seasonal Lead

Scunthorpe

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Job ID 1060212 Job Category Summer Jobs, Wholesale Hours per Week 37.5 Salary Work Level 4

Date posted 10/17/2025

Please note this is an OD vacancy. This means that only impacted at risk colleagues will be considered in the recruitment process, please therefore ensure you answer yes when asked this screening question. Anyone who applies that is not at risk will either have their application declined, or if the vacancy remains unfilled, will be considered following a round of internal and external advertising.

Purpose	Manage the strategy and execution of seasonal events across Co-op Wholesale. This role is accountable for owning seasonal strategy, delivering relevant ranges, ensuring supply chain readiness, and aligning marketing and sales to maximise impact.
Reports to		Line Manager of
Contribution	Own the end-to-end strategy and execution of seasonal events across Co-op Wholesale, ensuring plans are aligned to Co-op’s commercial goals and values. Deliver timely, relevant, and exciting seasonal ranges that resonate with wholesale customers and reflect current trends, partner needs, and market opportunities. Drive supply chain readiness, working closely with logistics and inventory teams to ensure accurate forecasting, stock availability, and smooth delivery during peak periods. Align seasonal marketing activity with brand strategy, ensuring campaigns are impactful, consistent, and tailored to wholesale audiences. Collaborate cross-functionally with trading, supply chain, marketing, finance, sales and digital teams to ensure seasonal plans are operationally feasible and commercially successful. Use customer and market insights to shape seasonal propositions that drive engagement, loyalty, and sales. Ensure promotional activity is well-timed and effectively executed, maximising visibility and impact across wholesale channels. Champion continuous improvement in seasonal planning and execution, identifying opportunities to streamline processes and enhance performance year-on-year. Contribute to Co-op’s purpose and values by delivering seasonal experiences that reflect our commitment to community, fairness, and customer care.
Behaviours	Co-operation (EXPERT) – My team and I excel at wise and effective collaboration by identifying internal expertise to create opportunities for all teams and departments to connect, in order to achieve and surpass strategic business goals. Future Focused (EXPERT) – I actively encourage my team to share information, insights and trends. I inspire them to focus on revenue growth, member value, market impact and community benefit, ensuring that they align their strategies and activity to maximise profitability. Inspirational Communicator (EXPERT) - I communicate in a clear, concise, appropriate, memorable and inspirational manner that engages others and encourages them to trust me. I listen to others first to understand Endless Inclusion (EXPERT) – I make time to ensure that my team is known for influencing positive, inclusive change throughout Co-op. I help others to understand how bias can affect decision making and how different opinions can help to come to better decisions. I share relevant and meaningful insights from the external market to unlock creativity, capture opinions on inclusion and shape training within the organisation. Developing Others (EXPERT) - I take full responsibility for the performance management, coaching and mentoring of my team, unlocking their full potential and developing individuals to be their best. I personalise the development journey for each, creating development plans based on an understanding of their personal intent, personality and the organisations requirements to encourage development, and to ensure the right development takes place.
Empowered to	Own the end-to-end seasonal strategy across wholesale, including planning, execution, and performance review of all seasonal events. Make decisions on seasonal range selection, ensuring relevance, customer appeal, and alignment with commercial and brand objectives. Lead supply chain readiness for seasonal events, including forecasting, inventory planning, and delivery coordination to ensure operational excellence. Align and influence seasonal marketing activity, ensuring campaigns are consistent with brand strategy and tailored to wholesale audiences. Collaborate cross-functionally with trading, supply chain, marketing, finance, and digital teams to ensure seasonal plans are feasible and impactful. Use customer and market insights to shape seasonal propositions and promotional strategies that drive engagement and sales. Optimise seasonal execution by refining timelines, processes, and communications to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Champion continuous improvement in seasonal planning, identifying opportunities to enhance future events and team ways of working. Represent the wholesale seasonal strategy in planning forums and leadership discussions, ensuring visibility and alignment across the business.
Capabilities	Ability to build strong working relationships with key contacts/stakeholders across the organisation Great communicator across all channels – with proven experience of translating technical / complex matters into simple and accessible language Significant knowledge and experience within trading Inspiring Communication – ability to inspire a team to deliver the trading plan through clear deliverables Listens to others and acts as a voice for the trading team Be open to new ideas and new ways of doing things Strong financial acumen Leadership – ability to engage, inspire and motivate colleagues within reporting line and across the wider Co-op Be able to create a ‘one team’ mentality to drive cross functional working and cross pollination of ideas and ways of working .
Work Level Descriptor	Accountability Contributes significantly to medium-term strategic planning for the function, ensuring alignment of activity within their own team. Plans and co-ordinates work within a team, ensuring the right capabilities are in place to deliver effectively now and in the future, and responding to change that impacts on their area of responsibility. Manages team delivery in accordance with agreed budgets. Impact Acts as a voice for their wider team, advising senior leaders to ensure challenges, learnings and opportunities experienced across the business inform strategic decision-making. Empowers and enables their immediate team to deliver the short-term plan within clear decision-making parameters, providing resources and guidance to support them. As an individual contributor, provides thought leadership to help shape the function's response to challenges, and approach to delivery of the medium-term plan. Creates a Co-op culture of inclusivity which allows colleagues to be themselves always, where everyone can reach their potential. Co-operation Collaborates with peers to deliver great work that enables the function to succeed. Co-operates with other teams and SMEs to get to the best outcome for the Co-op in their work.