Assistant Trade Planner - Home - 6 Month Secondment

Our Trade Planning team partners with Buying and Merchandising to deliver exciting, market-leading ranges and promotions that showcase fantastic products and great value for our customers. In this role, you will support the Trade Planning Manager to shape the Home promotional plan - planning and delivering promotions on time, reporting with accuracy, and working across multiple functions to make it all happen. If you have strong communication skills, an analytical mindset, and a passion for bringing great products to life, this could be the perfect next step for you.

Responsibilities:

• A key part of the Home team, supporting with trade, promotional and events planning for my category, ensuring we deliver a great proposition for our customers.
• Supporting my manager with the delivery of the category trade and events plan.
• Delivering accurate weekly trade figures and commentary for all Home promotional & event space and presenting trade at team meetings.
• Circulating product performance data to the category team, ensuring all documentation is up to date and accessible.
• Creating promotional review and launch documents & conducting analysis to recommend continuous improvements for forthcoming promotional cycles.
• Using different sources to review performance; internal reporting of sales, stock, margin; market analysis - drivers/drainers vs IRI; competitive pricing vs market.
• Monitor competitor activity to ensure we are offering the best trade plan for our customers.
• Recommending improvements to the promotional programme with a focus on simplicity for stores, commercial relevance, and great value for customers.
• Owning promotions for a defined product area, ensuring critical path is adhered to and communicating and scheduling relevant meetings with the appropriate stakeholders.
• Being a point of contact for the General Merchandise events ensuring that products & execution is right for customer.
• Ensuring critical path is met and contributing in NWTs.
• Collating nominations for promotional space and loading successful nominations into reporting systems.
• Leading weekly set up meetings to ensure excellent availability for promotional launches.
• Liaising with the Home Supply Chain team and Retail teams to ensure smooth implementation of trade plans and great customer experience.
• Supporting the roll out of new projects & initiatives.
• Liaising with the Central Events team, keeping the plan aligned with the critical path.
• Signing off the required POS on Home trade plans by category.
• Ensuring all key initiatives are communicated clearly to customers and stores.
• Using Yammer to collate feedback from stores.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Data analysis and numeracy.
• MS Office (especially Excel).
• Clear communication (including presentation skills).
• Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter.
• Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership.
• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation.

About Disability Confident:

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

Benefits:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year’s service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.