Clothing Event & Trade Planning Manager in Coventry

Wed all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. Thats waiting for you at Sainsburys. Here, everything in our stores starts out in Food Commercial. Whether its 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. Youll discover its incredibly fast-paced. People here are in it together and not afraid to take risks. Theyre 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 youre passionate about food and just as hungry to learn, youll 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 plansfrom 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 youll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, theres always the chance to try something new whether thats 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, well 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 for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).