Trade Planning Coordinator - Events

Location: Asda House

Employment Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours Per Week: 37.5

Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category: Category Management - SF

Closing Date: 29 April 2025

Purpose of the Role: Translating the corporate customer strategy and toolkit into a comprehensive trade plan. Coordinating the Events process and critical path, end to end for all food commercial categories. Ensuring all other key stakeholders and functions are following the trade plan priorities whilst adhering to critical path time scales. Help and support the team to deliver and execute Seasonal events, across the Seasonal Aisle and wider store.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the end to end process of all customer events, from brief through to final execution whilst working alongside the relevant key stakeholders, showcasing our amazing products and ensuring Asda is the home of events.
• Support on the Quarterly planning process, working with the Trade Planning Strategy team to confirm the final space plan and drive the events critical path.
• Work cross functionally with General Merchandise counterparts on shared events to drive consistency across food and non-food categories.
• Use Data, Insight and Analytics from previous events to feed into event briefs and block plans. Use the same data to review nominations and challenge appropriately to ensure all events align to the customer theme, sales, profit and promo principles set out by the business.
• Identify event growth opportunities year on year and work with relevant teams across the business to fill these.
• Work closely with the events modular planner to ensure event builds are data led and aligned to the original brief.
• Work with the Anaplan team to ensure the smooth transition of all Events and relevant space onto Anaplan.
• Run weekly sales data to provide updates on events to inform decisions, ensuring we are fit for the future and all stakeholders are aware of event performance during and post event.
• Work with Commercial, Customer Planning, Insight and Retail to execute each event (circa x20 per annum) effectively, including but not limited to: weekly alignment meetings, multiple review and sign off meetings for each event, autopsy and store walks.
• Attend regular competitor store visits to remain close to the market and identify market opportunities, communicating these to the relevant teams as appropriate.
• Coordinate and lead on the input into all Autopsy decks for all seasonal events, working closely with Commercial, Modular Planning, Demand Planning and POS team.
• Work alongside Commercial and Insight teams to collate competitor pricing and reviews, to feed into future briefs and share with relevant stakeholders.

Everything you’ll love:

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum of 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated.
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.