Demand & Forecast Analyst - Secondment Role
- Team
- Support Functions
- Store
- London Support Office
- Location
- London, Greater London
- Contract type
- Temporary
- Position type
- Full Time
- Salary
- Competitive + Benefits
- Closing date: 23rd July 2026
How We Hire
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.
About the role
This section tells you all you need to know about the position and its responsibilities, outlining everything we hope to see in a successful candidate.
Summary
Resource & Scheduling Analyst
This is an exciting 12–18 month secondment opportunity, offering the chance to gain valuable experience and contribute to key business priorities.
Join our Central Store Operations team as a Resource & Scheduling Analyst, where you'll play a key role in ensuring our stores have the right resources in place to deliver an outstanding customer and colleague experience. Working closely with store and central teams, you'll use forecasting, scheduling, planning tools, and data-driven insights to develop accurate resource plans, support business transformation initiatives, and drive continuous improvement across the retail operation.
This is an exciting 12–18 month secondment opportunity, offering the chance to gain valuable experience and contribute to key business priorities.
Join our Central Store Operations team as a Resource & Scheduling Analyst, where you'll play a key role in ensuring our stores have the right resources in place to deliver an outstanding customer and colleague experience. Working closely with store and central teams, you'll use forecasting, scheduling, planning tools, and data-driven insights to develop accurate resource plans, support business transformation initiatives, and drive continuous improvement across the retail operation.
All the details
What you'll be doing
- Develop, maintain, and deliver accurate store resource plans, forecasts, and scheduling demand curves, ensuring plans reflect customer trends, business activity, and operational changes.
- Support the configuration and ongoing optimisation of the My Schedule system, ensuring resource models remain aligned to business processes, policies, and store requirements.
- Provide insight and recommendations on resource deployment to help stores balance customer service, colleague experience, sales performance, and operational efficiency.
- Produce and enhance planning-related reporting and management information (MI) to support effective decision-making and drive continuous improvement.
- Build strong relationships with store and central stakeholders, supporting the implementation of resourcing processes, change programmes, and transformation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of retail operations, including store processes, working practices, and retail systems.
- Highly analytical with excellent numerical skills and the ability to interpret data to make informed recommendations.
- Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with planning, forecasting, and scheduling tools.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships across multiple teams.
- Forward-thinking, proactive, and committed to personal development and continuous improvement.
- Experience working with resource planning and workforce management systems such as Logile and Blue Yonder.
- MOST qualification in time and motion studies.
- Experience supporting operational change, business transformation, or workforce planning projects.
- Knowledge of forecasting methodologies and demand planning principles.
- Experience developing reporting, dashboards, and operational insights to support business decision-making.
- Central Store Operations teams.
- Store Operations teams.
- Food and Clothing & Home trading and operating model teams.
- Store leadership and colleague communities.
- A broad range of stakeholders supporting business transformation and operational projects.
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever‑evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value and service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
- 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third‑party brands for you and a member of your household.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days.
- Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
- A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
- A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
- Industry‑leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
- Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues, including our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist for you and your family.
- A charity volunteer day to support a cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
- 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.
Meet the Team
Being an in-person business
We're at our best when we're close to customers, and for many of us at M&S, that means working in store every day.
To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected. It also means we can solve problems as soon as they arise, learn and grow as a team, build trust, and get closer to our colleagues.
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Make Your Mark
Opportunities to be heard
Your voice and your ideas matter here. Our 8 colleague networks are places to find support, listen to each other and encourage debate. You can pitch ideas ‘Straight to Stuart’, our CEO, or get involved in our BIG (Business involvement Group).
Experience the business
You’ll spend 7 days each year helping in store and getting closer to our customers. We also organise Insight Days, so you can learn more about specific business units, like Foods.
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Benefits
How to Apply
Here’s what to expect at each stage of the application process. This can change depending on the role you’ve applied to. If you need any reasonable adjustments made at any stage, let us know and we can help.
Send us your application
Fill in our short application form and hit submit.
Online assessment
Depending on the role, you may be invited to take part in an online assessment. Should you be invited to an online assessment your Talent Acquisition Partner will be more than happy to support you with any questions.
Interview
We'll invite you to join us for an interview. This could be remote or in person. Here, we'll ask you some role based technical questions and examine the behaviours we're looking for.
Decision
After we’ve decided, we’ll be in touch. If you’ve been successful, we’ll officially invite you to join the team and let you know the next steps.
Demand & Forecast Analyst - Secondment Role
- Team
- Support Functions
- Store
- London Support Office
- Location
- London, Greater London
- Contract type
- Temporary
- Position type
- Full Time
- Salary
- Competitive + Benefits
- Closing date: 23rd July 2026
- Reference: 121752