Core Grocery Category Trade Planning Co-Ordinator

ASDA; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading grocery retailer in Leeds seeks a candidate to support their category trade planning. You will manage stakeholder relationships, ensure promotional execution, and coordinate marketing support for business initiatives. The role offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package, including a hybrid working arrangement. We value inclusion and encourage all colleagues to be themselves at work.

Benefits

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched

15% colleague discount in store and online

Access to wellbeing services

Excellent parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience working with marketing teams to create customer propositions.
• Ability to manage critical paths and deliver promotional plans.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee relationships with marketing teams for promotional activities.
• Liaise with supply and merchandising teams.
• Support on event and range planning.

Skills

Relationship management

Stakeholder collaboration

Marketing communication support

Promotional execution

Event and range planning

Job description

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Working alongside the Core Grocery Business Unit to support the co-ordination of the category trade plan. This role reports into the Category Trade Planning Manager for Trade Planning and Category Strategy which is part of the commercial team and will cover all channels & formats.

• Ownership of the relationship with a central marketing teams to create a customer proposition for the business unit - gaining marketing comms support for business unit activity.
• Key stakeholder between buying, supply, merchandising & central retail operation teams to manage end-to-end critical path to deliver 'right first time' promotional plan for the business unit.
• Liaise with in-store marketing (POS) to ensure execution of promotional and seasonal POS.
• Support on event and range planning including autopsy process through engaging multiple internal stakeholders and supplier category teams.
• Arrange workshops, reviews and sign-off meetings as required to facilitate the trade plan.

Everything you’ll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves