Trade Planning Manager in Bracknell

About The Role

As a Trade Planning Manager, you will develop a customer focused, optimised trade plan, collaborating closely with Category Proposition Groups (CPGs). You will champion a customer‑centric approach in all planning decisions, strategically managing secondary space to maximise commercial returns. This critical, high‑impact role requires you to combine your hands‑on expertise with crucial people leadership, ensuring the development, performance and engagement of your team. Together you will be responsible for delivering a robust, accurate and well‑governed trade plan across the business. By mastering cross‑functional collaboration, you will ensure trade activity is effectively planned, executed and reviewed, enabling the delivery of our commercial objectives, excellent customer outcomes and operational simplicity.

Contract type – Permanent (multiple positions) and one 6‑month fixed term contract on a part‑time basis (3 days per week).

Working pattern / flexible working – Hybrid approach; team completes 3 days per week in the office to connect.

Salary – £63,600–£95,300.

Location – Bracknell Head Office.

Interviews – Expected to take place towards the end of May.

Key Responsibilities

• Trade Planning & Coordination – Coordinate the end‑to‑end trade planning process across categories, maintain the central trade plan and act as a senior point of contact for queries.
• Commercial Governance & Control – Ensure all trade activity adheres to agreed governance, support approval forums and proactively identify and resolve risks.
• Performance Tracking & Insight – Track and report trade performance, produce actionable insights to support trading reviews and lead post‑event reviews to embed learning.
• People Management & Team Leadership – Provide day‑to‑day leadership, coaching and support to Space Planners and manage team capacity.
• Stakeholder Management – Build strong, trusted relationships with Commercial, Pricing, Finance, Supply Chain and Operations, providing confident challenge and guidance on trade plans.

Essential Skills / Experience You’ll Need

• Degree level or equivalent level.
• Very strong analytical skills and critical thinking.
• Very strong commercial/marketing experience.
• Financial acumen.
• Stakeholder management and influencing.
• Strong organisation and planning skills.
• Recent management experience.

For internal Partners, your existing benefits would remain unchanged during your secondment.

Important points to note

• Some of our roles are subject to pre‑employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays.
• Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third‑party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.
• We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications, and therefore, we recommend you apply early.
• If you require a reasonable adjustment due to a disability which means you may need longer to complete your application please contact us as soon as possible.
• We want all of our Partners to have a good work‑life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.