Trade Planning Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Non Food
Closing date: 14 October 2024
Requisition ID: 249595
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. From fragrance to car care, clothing and pots and pans, our General Merchandise team delivers all the non-food items for Sainsbury’s, Habitat and Argos customers. This multi-brand environment means you get to work across most areas. You can also be a pioneer, because the team believes in being brave, iterating and learning as they go. They also develop deep connections to other departments, which opens up a lot of different career opportunities for you. What’s certain is that you’ll spend time on the shop floor to get closer to customers, and bring a broad perspective and the full support of your manager with you wherever you decide to develop next.
Joining Sainsbury's as a Trade Planning Manager means being part of an impactful and energetic team at the heart of shaping our short-term trade response and long-term planning. With the unique opportunity to work across all our brands and channels, including Sainsbury's, Argos, Tu, Habitat, and Nectar, you will play a crucial role in orchestrating the development and execution of a bold Trading Plan. Collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders, you will have the chance to influence and collaborate with senior leaders, driving commercial plans that deliver an exceptional shopping experience for our customers. With a focus on commercial and customer planning, analytics, and operational excellence, this role offers a dynamic environment where you can have a tangible impact while working with a diverse and inclusive team.
As a Trade Planning Manager at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in co-ordinating a broad range of inputs to deliver an integrated trading plan and a singular narrative that ensures cross-functional teams align in how we serve our customers. Working closely with functions such as Commercial, Digital, Retail, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Finance, you will define effective plans and deliver large-scale trading initiatives. Your responsibilities will include leading end-to-end event planning and execution, regularly reviewing and adapting the plan, translating and challenging planning inputs, supporting the PIR process, representing GM in various forums, collaborating with reporting and merchandising teams, and working closely with the Sainsbury's and Argos A & R teams to ensure effective trade execution. Additionally, you will need to understand the tensions and drivers between commercial, operational, and customer performance, while mobilising resources and playing a role in creating an inclusive, values-driven culture. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to both short-term trade response and longer-term planning, collaborating with stakeholders across all brands and channels of the organisation.
What you need to know and show
- Strategic orientation & well-developed hypothesis led problem solving capability.
- How to take a directional brief through to a comprehensive, multi-functional plan, and deliver it
- Experience and working knowledge of multi-channel retailing across a number of commercial, analytical and operational disciplines such as Commercial, Digital, Marketing, Retail and Supply Chain
- Strong understanding of the corporate strategy, goals, and customer insights.
- Strong project management experience and organisation skills, with experience of working collaboratively and cross functionally. Demonstrated ability to lead teams to deliver projects
- How to create strong stakeholder maps, define ARCI’s and enhanced ways of working.
- Strong commercial acumen and analytical skills – you know how to work through ambiguity and evolving priorities at pace
- Ability to chair or facilitate utilising a range of coaching, presentation, or problem-solving techniques, that can be utilised across multiple functions and audiences
- Highly competent in developing a broad range of engaging, relevant content, or analysis, utilising a variety of tools including to but not limited to Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).