Format Partnerships Assistant

Format Partnerships Assistant
£25,000-£29,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 6B) 
Manchester city centre - in this role you’ll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and at least once a week in the office 
Monday-Friday, 37.5 hours, full time

We’re looking for a Format Partnerships Assistant to join our team and support us in maximising opportunities through existing and new partnerships to deliver innovative ways to meet the changing needs of our customers and member-owners. We’ll look to you to build strong relationships with teams internally as well as with our external partners and support us with maintaining our processes to allow us to constantly grow our partnerships and expand into more stores. Joining a small team, you’ll gain fantastic exposure to how our stores and partnerships work, providing an exciting opportunity to develop your skills in a key area of our business.

What you’ll do

• Support our in-store partnerships by attending regular meetings, tracking actions and next steps and making sure we’re being efficient as a team
• Work with teams internally to resolve any partner issues
• Manage the invoicing process, working closely with finance teams to track and reconcile partnerships invoicing and income
• Manage the day to day activity of smaller partnerships, working with teams across Co-op
• Compile, analyse, and share transaction data with our partners and support in recommending ways to improve our customer and member-owners experience 
• Create governance process documents to make sure we’re working within agreed frameworks

This role would suit people who have

• A keen interest in working with partners and some knowledge of how partnerships work within retail
• Excellent relationship building skills with colleagues and external partners, and the ability to constructively influence and challenge where required 
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team in an ever-changing environment 
• Strong organisation skills with high attention to detail
• The ability to analyse data and use this to support effective decision making

Why Co-op?

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with …