Senior Development Manager

Join Superdrug Head Office- Make a Real Difference Every Day!

Location: Field Based


Salary: Competitive

Why Superdrug?

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.

We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

Here's the exciting bit… A day includes:

We are seeking a proactive and commercially minded Senior Development Manager to support the Property Department with both scheduled and reactive tasks. This role plays a vital part in delivering commercial initiatives and owning the look and feel of the Superdrug and Savers portfolio. Responsibilities include setting the commercial development agenda, designing and developing all new innovation and the costing and delivery for all roll outs. This person will need to work cross functionally with excellent project management and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Head of Implementation, you will work closely with the commercial teams to agree new fixture requirements, fixture design and rollout programme for any category that requires an innovative solution to enhance both the look and feel of the product and the customer engagement.
· You will monitor and evaluate the retail market to understand what innovation is taking place in different sectors.
· Working with our commercial teams, you will define the brief for all new fixture development, whilst considering cost, design, delivery and ESG.
· You will prepare and present board papers, requesting project CAPEX approval.
· You will follow ASW procurement process, conducting all tenders and quotation processes.
· You will work with space planning team to understand the space and location of any new solution, agreeing target stores based on segment.
· You will take Health and Safety matters into consideration and ensure we are compliant.
· Ability to manage a project from concept to implementation, whilst considering operational and cost efficiencies.
· Manage and own the critical path for all fixture development projects whilst considering the efficiencies of any roll out
· Management of external facilities and stock control, ensuring fixture arrives in the right place at the right time.

This job is a good fit for you if:

· Have great drive, and an ambition to achieve.
· Your commercial acumen is second to none. You will be decisive, results driven and can work creatively to find solutions that benefit our businesses.
· Have a healthy, positive regard for your colleagues and always place their safety, as well as our customer’s safety as the utmost priority.
· You are proactive and take pride in providing great advice.
· You’re great with people, highly self-motivated, yet able to operate within a team culture. You’ll have a sense of fun and be able to take people with you on a journey.
· You have strong presentation and reporting skills and be able to explain complex issues and their proposed solutions at all levels to the business.

What you’ll need:

· You will have project management experience and contract management.
· You will have experience in managing a team at a good level
· Commercial experience working within the retail sector balancing technical and commercial decisions.
· You’ll have the ability to travel within the UK.
· Your prior experience will demonstrate successful work with external contractors, design agencies and project or implementation managers.
· The ability to undertake projects yourself as well as working in larger teams either with colleagues and/or our partners in external firms.
· Experience in both vendor management and procurement management.
· The ability to use Microsoft suite including Outlook, Teams, Excel, Powerpoint and Word as well as online and internal databases

Here's what's in it for you:

• 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
• 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
• 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
• Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
• Company pension matching and bonus
• We offer Stream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
• We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
• Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
• Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support
• Come and be part of something special!

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