Trade Planning Assistant

Sainsbury's; Coventry; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Pensions scheme

Performance bonus up to 5%

Annual leave

Cycle to work scheme

Health cash plans

Salary advance

Job summary

Argos is seeking a Trade Planning Assistant to support weekly trade plans, coordinate priorities, and help deliver continuous improvement across Trade Planning. You will work across Commercial, Digital, Marketing, Retail and Supply Chain with cross-functional teams to translate plans into action.

Ideal candidates are organized, data-driven, and able to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced retail environment, with strong stakeholder communication and proficiency in Excel/PowerPoint.

Qualifications

• Strong organisation and planning skills
• Experience in commercial/analytical/retail environment
• Strong analytical capability
• Good stakeholder management and communication
• Ability to work cross-functionally
• Proactive problem-solving approach
• Ability to work at pace and manage changing priorities
• Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Experience creating analyses or business updates

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of the weekly trade plan and manage critical paths
• Lead the Competitor Analysis Hub and identify market opportunities
• Support the Business Priority List (BPL) delivery and communicate updates
• Collaborate with Marketing and cross-functional teams to execute plans
• Review performance, identify risks and opportunities, and propose actions
• Seek process improvements and help drive continuous improvement across Trade Planning

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.

Sitting at the heart of the Argos business, Trade Planning connects the moving parts that help turn strategy into action.

As a Trade Planning Assistant, you'll work across Commercial, Digital, Marketing, Retail and Supply Chain, helping to coordinate priorities, identify opportunities and ensure we execute brilliantly for customers. From supporting weekly trade priorities and analysing competitor activity to coordinating business-wide planning, you'll help ensure we're focused on the right opportunities and responding quickly to an ever-changing retail landscape.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys working at pace, loves solving problems and wants broad exposure across the Argos business.

What You’ll Do

Support the delivery of the weekly trade plan, helping to coordinate priorities, manage critical paths and ensure the business is aligned behind what matters most.

Lead our Competitor Analysis Hub activity, capturing market insight, identifying opportunities and highlighting emerging trends that can influence both short and long-term plans.

Support the operational delivery of the Business Priority List (BPL), ensuring updates, submissions and actions are communicated clearly and delivered on time.

Work closely with Marketing and a wide range of cross-functional teams to ensure plans are executed seamlessly and our priorities are translated into action.

Review performance, identify risks and opportunities, and help recommend actions that improve execution, customer outcomes and commercial performance.

Look for ways to improve processes, simplify ways of working and support continuous improvement across Trade Planning activity.

Who You Are

A naturally curious and organised individual who enjoys connecting the dots, solving problems and understanding what drives business performance.

You’ll be comfortable juggling multiple priorities, working at pace and collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders to keep plans moving forward.

You enjoy working with data and insight, spotting trends and using information to help shape recommendations and decisions. Whether it’s competitor activity, trading performance or business priorities, you’re always looking for the bigger picture.

A strong communicator and relationship builder, you’ll be confident working across different teams, influencing others and contributing to discussions that help drive the business forward.

Most importantly, you’ll bring a proactive mindset, a willingness to learn and a genuine interest in how a fast-paced retail business operates.

Essential Criteria

• Strong organisation and planning skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Experience working within a commercial, analytical, operational or retail environment
• Good commercial awareness and analytical capability
• Ability to identify risks, opportunities and potential solutions
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with a broad range of teams
• A proactive and curious approach to problem solving
• Ability to work at pace and adapt to changing priorities
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience creating analysis, presentations or business updates for stakeholders
• A continuous improvement mindset with a willingness to challenge and improve ways of working

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 5% 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).