About this role
Job Title
Modular Planning Analyst
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Fixed Term
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits.
Category
Planning
Closing Date
11 February 2026
Purpose: Support the deployment of right range, right store
“Find your role”
The Range Analysts sit within the Supply Chain function within the Central Space, Range and Display team. Range Analysts will take on a pivotal role between Customer, Commercial, Data and Analytics, and category Modular Planning. Informed by insight you will improve range integrity to create clustered or store specific recommendations that are deployed through the BY software and handed over to Modular Planning to build planograms.
The Analyst will review ad hoc range deployment requests. Including store queries, availability review, or inventory queries and make recommendations that aligns to overall strategy, and handover to the category Modular Planners for deployment.
You will be able to work within the critical path timings and ensure no late handovers and collaborate with commercial business unit teams to deploy.
You Will:
- Work closely with Commercial, Customer and Data Insights teams to review and analyse range recommendations at modular category level.
- Use Customer and Commercial data to support the strategic and commercial scope. Use demographics, store format information and price sensitivity reports to add an additional level of data analyse to all recommendations.
- Review ad hoc range deployment requests. Including store queries, availability review, or inventory queries and make recommendations that aligns to overall strategy, and handover to modular planning for deployment.
- Work within the critical path timings and ensure no late handovers.
- Lead Range deployment handovers with category, presenting to Modular Planning and supporting them to create a plan to deploy and understand the impacts of the recommendations. Requirement to be able to talk through the analysis process and have open conversations with the category teams about expectations on range deployment. This may require some level of negotiation.
- Confidently present Range deployment recommendations to a wider group of Commercial stakeholders in scoping meetings.
- Keep up to date with ranging insights, market trends, latest training and software upgrades to deliver ranging recommendations in-line with business strategy.
“Let's find out about you.”
- You will be able to manage your own workload, being able to prioritise projects and ad-hoc requests where necessary, ensuring project milestones are achieved.
- You will have a keen eye for detail, ensuring the detail shared with the wider team is off the highest standard.
- You will have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written and be confident presenting your work.
- Have data analytics skills to be able to analyse large sets of numerical data.
- You must have the ability to adapt to significant change and challenges, finding creative ways to overcome barriers.
- Strong excel capabilities, with a history of using formulas and pivot tables
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
Discretionary company bonus
Company pension up to 7% matched
15% colleague discount in store and online
Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves
Other facts
About Asda
It’s hard for anyone to imagine just how many different career possibilities there are at Asda. Ours is a big business, and beyond the roles you might be familiar with on the shop floor (or on your doorstep), there are hundreds of others you don’t get to see.
In fact, because our business is changing so rapidly, there are new roles being created at Asda all the time. Technology is changing how we do things every day, helping us to reimagine retail to make life better for our customers, in-store and online.
For those with imagination, can-do, integrity and a willingness to embrace change, the possibilities at Asda are limitless. Take a look around and see where a career at Asda could take you.
What you'll do
- The Modular Planning Analyst will support the deployment of range recommendations and collaborate with various teams to ensure timely handovers. They will analyze data to improve range integrity and make recommendations aligned with the overall strategy.
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