Clothing Event & Trade Planning Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Food Commercial
Closing date: 28 August 2025
Requisition ID: 400011798
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Here, everything in our stores starts out in Food Commercial. Whether it’s the product, proposition, packaging or price, or the fact that something tastes great, our team is responsible for all food items available in store, digitally and on demand. You’ll discover it’s incredibly fast-paced. People here are in it together and not afraid to take risks. They’re enthusiastic too, and their amazing leadership team is right behind them. The knowledge and experience you gain here could set you up for career moves, anywhere else in the business. So, if you’re passionate about food and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as the Clothing Event & Trade Planning Manager means becoming a crucial part of our clothing business unit's growth journey, with a focus on change improvement and optimisation within the commercial operating model. In this role, you will have the opportunity to unite stakeholders behind customer trading and commercial plans, driving collaboration, agility, and future-focused thinking to deliver winning customer events and propositions. With a commitment to creating an inclusive and values-driven culture, you will play a key role in shaping compelling customer propositions, fostering cross-collaboration, and facilitating impactful reviews to drive strategic priorities and customer-centric execution.
What you'll do
As the Clothing Trade and Event Planning Manager at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in uniting stakeholders behind the customer trading and commercial plan to deliver winning customer events and propositions. You will coordinate a broad range of inputs to deliver an integrated plan for Clothing, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure strong execution across all channels. Your responsibilities will include analysing and anticipating competitor activity to inform strategic planning, translating customer insights and market knowledge into actionable plans, managing the trade and promotional plan based on customer needs, overseeing the critical path through a stage gate process, and driving cross-collaboration for key licences and events to create compelling customer propositions. Additionally, you will lead by example in fostering a values-driven, inclusive culture where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential.
Essential Criteria
- Hybrid working 2 days a week from our Coventry store support centre
- Demonstrable experience in developing and delivering multi-functional plans from directional briefs, involving collaboration across Commercial, Digital, Marketing, Retail, and Supply Chain disciplines
- Proven ability to facilitate cross-functional meetings or workshops, using coaching, presentation, and problem-solving techniques tailored to varied audiences
- Competence in creating engaging and relevant content or analysis, using tools such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to support strategic planning and execution
- Demonstrated understanding of multi-channel retailing, with practical experience across commercial, analytical, and operational functions
- Ability to manage trade and promotional plans, including prioritising propositions based on customer needs and implementing customer-centric processes for events and macro space change
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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: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. 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, salary 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. 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. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
