Senior Agronomist and Resillience Lead

As Senior Agronomist and Resilience Lead, you'll take ownership of the agronomy approach to resilience across Produce, working with category teams, growers, suppliers and technical specialists to drive best practice and influence future strategy. You'll be responsible for leading key technical workstreams, supporting category resilience plans and representing Produce within wider resilience projects across the business.

Alongside resilience leadership, you'll own a category supply base, helping to shape sourcing, varietal and innovation plans that support quality, consistency and availability. Working closely with suppliers and growers, you'll use your technical expertise and industry knowledge to deliver solutions that support both customer expectations and business objectives.

This role will suit an experienced agronomist who enjoys combining technical expertise with strategic influence, building strong partnerships and leading work that has visibility across multiple teams and disciplines.

Due to high interest, this role may close earlier than advertised. We recommend applying as soon as possible.

What you'll do

• Lead the Produce resilience agenda, shaping strategy, influencing decision making and helping embed resilience principles across the supply chain.
• Own a category supply base, developing trusted partnerships with suppliers and growers to deliver exceptional quality, consistency and availability.
• Drive sourcing, varietal and innovation plans that support long term category performance and keep quality at the heart of the customer offer.
• Collaborate with commercial, technical and category teams to solve challenges, identify opportunities and deliver key business objectives.
• Represent Produce within wider resilience programmes and across the industry, bringing expert agronomy insight to strategic discussions and decisions.

Who you are

• Bring a degree level technical qualification or significant relevant industry experience within the food sector.
• Combine strong agronomy expertise with a sound understanding of horticultural production and grower relationships.
• Influence, engage and build credibility with a wide range of internal and external partners.
• Develop strong supplier and grower partnerships that create value for customers and the business.
• Understand customer needs, brand values and the commercial importance of sustainable supply.

What's in it for you?

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger, helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
• Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

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.

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