At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience, from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.
The teams at our Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.
If you’re willing to get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.
Halfords operates a Hybrid working policy with this position bring based 2 days per week at our Support Centre in Redditch, West Midlands.
As a Commercial Planning Executive within our Commercial Operations team, you'll sit at the heart of how Halfords plans and governs commercial activity across range reviews, trading strategies, promotional planning, and category development. Working closely with the Commercial Planning Manager, you'll maintain and improve the planning frameworks, trackers, and reporting views that keep commercial delivery aligned, visible, and on track across multiple categories and functions.
Day to day, you'll be consolidating information from across the business, maintaining the stage-gate process through range reviews, producing reports, and building integrated planning views that give decision-makers a clear and reliable picture of where things stand. A meaningful part of the role is also looking at how things are done and finding ways to improve them, whether through better tooling, smarter use of Microsoft 365, dashboards, or exploring how AI and automation can reduce manual effort and sharpen planning accuracy.
This role will involve a level of admin at times and requires someone who is comfortable working without a rigid task list. You'll need to be curious, autonomous, and willing to push for better ways of doing things. The upside is real breadth and exposure, where you'll get a genuine view of how a major national retailer operates commercially, working across multiple functions and with plenty of scope to shape the role as it grows.
Support the Commercial Planning Manager in governing and reporting on range review delivery, ensuring alignment with trading strategies, milestones, promotional plans, and commercial priorities
Maintain and continuously improve planning tools, trackers, and reporting views using Microsoft 365 applications, ensuring data is accurate, accessible, and clearly communicated to stakeholders
Support the identification and monitoring of workload forecasts, resource demands, planning risks, and delivery constraints, enabling timely escalation where needed
