Trade Planning Assistant

4 weeks ago


Coventry, Coventry, United Kingdom Sainsbury's Full time

Why Sainsbury's

As a Trade Planning Assistant at Sainsbury's, you will be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team focused on maximising the potential of our General Merchandise business. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, influence senior stakeholders, and contribute to aligning our commercial plans to drive customer satisfaction and achieve our ambitious goals.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure total alignment behind our Trade Plan priorities by working closely with cross-functional teams.
  • Coordinate and maintain the GM Trade Plan, ensuring clear weekly prioritisation by fascia to enable brilliant activation.
  • Facilitate discussions and contribute insights throughout the trade planning process.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, communicating plans, milestones, and performance to keep them engaged and informed.
  • Conduct competitor benchmarking, maintain data integrity, support post-implementation reviews, and create engaging materials to showcase the strength of our trade plan.

Requirements

  • Experience and working knowledge of multi-channel retailing across either a commercial, analytical or operational discipline.
  • Ability to think both strategically and tactically, supporting the input of key learnings through the trade planning process.
  • Strong commercial acumen and analytical skills – you know how to work through ambiguity and evolving priorities at pace.
  • Ability to work effectively with a range of cross-functional teams, ensuring ARCI's are clear and expectations understood.
  • Facilitate or lead discussions, utilising a range of coaching, presentation or communication styles to influence clearly aligned outcomes and ensure clear actions are committed to.
  • Highly competent in developing at pace a broad range of engaging, relevant content, or analysis, utilising a variety of tools including to but not limited to Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel.
  • A confident self-starter, able to work on multiple streams of work in parallel.
  • Demonstrate ability to identify opportunities, solutions, and priorities.
  • Comfortable building new relationships and working collaboratively, whilst effectively influencing and communicating with a broad range of stakeholders across all levels.
  • Anticipating risks and knock-on implications outside your team and division and defining the action plans and solutions.
  • High levels of curiosity, with a passion for discovering and sharing new insight or lessons learnt.
  • Committed to delivering value and business outcomes at pace. You should be comfortable challenging your own priorities and ways of working to ensure that we are set up to deliver customer value to our teams, in as effective and efficient a way as possible.
  • Willingness to role model and be active in developing a trial, experiment and learn culture.

About Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's is a truly inclusive retailer, welcoming colleagues from all backgrounds. We offer a range of benefits, including colleague discount, pensions scheme, life cover, performance-related bonus, annual holiday allowance, and access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. We also offer flexible working, employee assistance programme, and moments that matter, including up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave.



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