Trade Planner

Sainsbury's; Coventry; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Pensions

Life cover

Bonus up to 10%

Holiday entitlement

Season ticket loans

Cycle to work

Health cash plans

Employee assistance programme

Maternity/adoption leave

Job summary

Argos, part of Sainsbury's, is seeking a Trade Planner for a 12-month FTC to shape and deliver plans across Argos and Habitat. You will influence priorities, coordinate with Commercial, Marketing, Digital, Retail, and Finance, and drive execution that benefits customers and the business.

You’ll own initiatives from planning through delivery, balancing long-term opportunities with immediate priorities, and present recommendations to senior leaders for informed decision-making.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and delivering complex initiatives from strategy through to implementation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to engage and influence senior leaders.
• Excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to translate insight into action.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity and identifying opportunities and risks.
• Proven ability to build credibility and strong working relationships across a broad stakeholder group.

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver the trade plan across Argos and Habitat, ensuring activity is connected, prioritised and executed brilliantly for customers.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Marketing, Digital, Retail, Supply Chain and Finance to align priorities and drive plan delivery.
• Take ownership of initiatives from planning through to delivery, identifying opportunities and risks and supporting data-driven decisions.
• Represent Trade Planning in forums, communicating priorities and actions to Senior Leadership Teams.

Skills

Leadership experience

Stakeholder management

Communication

Commercial awareness

Analytical skills

Prioritisation

Ambiguity handling

Relationship building

Job description

At Argos, we’re a digital-led UK retailer that keeps pushing boundaries to meet every generation with what they want, how and when they want it. As a market leader in general merchandise, serving millions of customers through our website, app, same-day delivery and Click & Collect services, we offer real opportunities to learn, grow and shape your career. With roles spanning Commercial, Buying, Merchandising, Design and Supply Chain, through to Digital, Operations, Customer Experience, Marketing, and People and Transformation , you will work with brilliant colleagues and directly shape how we serve our customers every day. From enabling inspiring choice across our owned brands, including Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, alongside the world’s biggest brands like Apple, Lego, Xbox and Samsung, to making shopping effortlessly convenient, championing trusted value and accelerating our strategy - Argos is an exciting place to build your future.

Trade Planner (12 month FTC)

Trade Planning sits at the heart of Argos and Habitat, bringing together commercial ambition, customer insight and operational delivery to ensure we show up brilliantly for our customers.

As a Trade Planner, you'll play a key role in shaping and delivering plans that drive customer engagement and commercial performance across our brands. Working closely with teams across the business, you'll influence decisions, build alignment and help turn strategy into action, ensuring our priorities are delivered brilliantly across every channel.

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain broad exposure across Argos and Habitat, working on major trading moments and strategic initiatives from planning through to execution. You'll collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, including senior leaders, helping to shape plans that make a real impact for both our customers and the business.

What You’ll Do

You’ll help shape and deliver the trade plan across Argos and Habitat, ensuring activity is connected, prioritised and executed brilliantly for customers.

Working closely with teams across Commercial, Marketing, Digital, Retail, Supply Chain and Finance, you'll bring people together behind shared objectives, creating alignment and momentum across major trading priorities. You'll support the development and delivery of the trade plan, balancing long-term opportunities with short-term priorities to ensure the business is focused on what matters most.

You’ll take ownership of initiatives from planning through to delivery, identifying opportunities and risks, challenging thinking where needed and supporting the business to make informed decisions. Whether reviewing performance, developing future plans or supporting major trading events, you’ll play a key role in helping us maximise every opportunity.

You’ll also represent Trade Planning in a range of forums, confidently communicating priorities, recommendations and actions to stakeholders across the business, including Senior Leadership Teams.

Who You’re Are

You’re commercially minded, naturally curious and enjoy working with others to turn ideas into action.

You’ll likely have experience leading initiatives from strategy through to execution and will be comfortable navigating ambiguity, balancing competing priorities and driving progress across multiple workstreams. You enjoy seeing the bigger picture but are equally comfortable rolling your sleeves up to make things happen.

You’ll have gained broad business exposure and be confident building relationships across multiple functions. You’ve got the credibility to influence stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders, and can adapt your communication style to bring people together behind a common goal.

Most importantly, you’re proactive, collaborative and energised by the opportunity to make a real impact. You enjoy solving problems, spotting opportunities and helping teams move from ideas to successful delivery.

Essential Criteria

• Experience leading and delivering complex initiatives from strategy through to implementation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to engage and influence senior leaders.
• Excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to translate insight into action. Experience building alignment across multiple teams and functions to deliver shared outcomes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity and identifying opportunities and risks.
• Proven ability to build credibility and strong working relationships across a broad stakeholder group.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).