Clothing Trade Planner
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: 22 January 2026
Requisition ID: 400045022
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.
Our Clothing business is gearing up for an exciting year, and we’re looking for someone who thrives at the centre of fast‑paced commercial decision‑making. As a Clothing Trade Planner, you’ll bring together insights, teams and plans to make sure we deliver brilliant customer experiences across our stores and online. You’ll play a key role in shaping how we plan and execute trading activity, working with partners across Commercial, Retail, Marketing, Digital and Supply Chain to create clarity, spot opportunities and strengthen how we show up for customers. If you enjoy connecting the dots, influencing outcomes, and helping teams work smarter, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact.
What You’ll Do
In this role, you’ll bring together commercial, customer and operational priorities to create a clear, aligned and compelling trading narrative for Clothing. You’ll work closely with a broad network of partners, from Commercial and Digital to Retail, Marketing, Supply Chain and Finance - ensuring opportunities, risks and dependencies are understood and acted upon. You’ll support the coordination and visualisation of our customer plan, champion best practice across the trade planning community, and help drive continuous improvement in how we plan, execute and review trading activity. You’ll play a vital role in forums across the business, ensuring our plans are optimised and executed seamlessly, and that insight and learnings feed into future cycles.
Who You Are
You’re a naturally curious and collaborative person who thrives in environments where no two days are the same. You’re confident influencing stakeholders at all levels and can simplify complexity into meaningful, actionable insight. You enjoy working cross‑functionally, bringing teams together to create aligned outcomes, and you’re comfortable balancing both the macro view and the detail needed to deliver great customer and commercial results. Ideally, you’ve worked in trade planning or have strong experience across multiple retail functions, whether that’s commercial, retail operations, marketing, supply chain or digital - and you’re energised by shaping and improving processes that help teams work smarter. You’re also highly capable in Excel and able to turn data into compelling stories that drive decision‑making.
Essential Criteria
- Highly competent in creating engaging content and analysis using tools such as Excel, PowerPoint and Word
- Strong commercial acumen and analytical skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and changing priorities at pace
- Experience working effectively with cross‑functional teams and ensuring clear accountability and ownership
- Experience in trade planning or cross‑functional retail operations (commercial, retail, marketing, digital, supply chain etc.)
- A self‑starter who is comfortable working independently across multiple workstreams
You’ll split your time between home and Ansty SSC (Coventry), coming into the office when it matters most for collaboration and business needs.
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 10% 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. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, 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).
