Convenience Category Planner
3 weeks ago
**Job ID**: 220859
**Job Category**: Food Commercial(Including Sustainability, Supply chain and Buying)
**Posting Date**: 02/05/2024
**Closing Date**: 02/12/2024
**Full Time or Part Time**: Full time
**Contract Type**: Permanent Advertised Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Food Commercial - Convenience Category Planner
Always being one step ahead, and making things happen - that is the aim of Category Planning at Sainsbury’s. To succeed in the highly competitive landscape of grocery retail, you must be bold, make decisions quickly, and spot opportunities where others do not.
As a Category Planner in the Convenience team, you will sit at the heart of delivering the channel’s ‘Food First’ strategy by making and influencing key decisions. You’ll be responsible for coordinating and optimising the promotional and customer strategy across all secondary space, key events and channels and get to work alongside a range of stakeholders, from Buyers through to Marketing and Space teams. If you are passionate about customers and want to make a tangible impact as part of a diverse group of problem solvers and strategic thinkers, then this is the role for you
**As a Category Planner in Convenience, you will**:
Own and oversee the promotional plan across secondary space to effectively land messages to customers and drive incremental sales and volume;
Develop a convenience customer plan that will elevate the customer experience in and out of store and represent convenience with Marketing and other stakeholders to champion channel priorities;
Lean on insight, data, and cross-functional consensus to inform your decisions, as well as leading performance reviews to drive improvements in promotions, events and meal deal planning;
Communicate with clarity to support effective Retail execution of the promotional plan, seasonal events and any other in-store activation, ensuring POS is raised correctly and plans are communicated on time.
**Our Convenience team would love to see**:
Solid understanding of commercial, retail and customers - previous category planning and/or buying experience is an advantage, although not a requirement
Strong analytical skills - turning data into insight, problem solving, and developing recommendations to present to stakeholders
Excellent communication skills - building great working relationships and providing support and challenge to stakeholders at different levels
Ambitious and motivated - takes initiative to solve problems and improve processes, thinks independently and willing to learn and grow, driven to succeed
Brilliant project management skills - thrives on planning, prioritising, and coordinating - able to drive timelines and identify risks and opportunities
Robust Excel and PowerPoint skills
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