Trade Planning Manager

Tesco UK; Digswell; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Disability Confident Leader

Job summary

Tesco Stores Limited is seeking a senior Trade and Promotions Lead for the Fresh division. You will own the commercial plan across formats and channels, using customer and product insight to deliver a winning proposition for customers and Tesco.

You will influence stakeholders, leverage market data to drive space and promotional strategy, and collaborate with Retail, Product, and Strategy teams to stay ahead of competitors. Flexible working and inclusive recruitment are part of Tesco's approach.

Qualifications

• Experience in range development and trade planning.
• Excellent analytical and data interpretation skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the trade and promotional plan for the Fresh division across formats and channels.
• Influence stakeholders to meet critical path timings and briefs for space and proposition requirements.
• Use insights from market data to build a strong Trade Space plan and optimize promotions across channels.
• Develop relationships with Retail, Product, Customer, SRM and Strategy & Trade teams.

Skills

Trade planning

Merchandising

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Project management

Commercial acumen

Job description

You will own and lead the trade and promotional plan for the Fresh division across all formats and channels. You will use customer and product insight to develop a compelling commercial plan that delivers a winning proposition for both customers and Tesco.

• Building a winning trade plan which materially moves our performance on year on year and vs our competitors, growing incremental sales value and market share.
• Influencing stakeholders of all work levels to deliver against critical path timings, and briefs for space/customer proposition requirements.
• Understanding the drivers of performance, through sound analytics and strong partnership with relevant functions (e.g. Dunnhumby, finance, insight) and use this to build Trade Space plan.
• Applying insight and customer understanding to the Events programme to support space optimization, sales and customer perception.
• Prioritising propositions, promotions, and offers based on customer needs and calendar themes.
• Reviewing & continuously improving the Promotional offering, optimising all pieces of feature space, to drive sales ensuring all promotions on feature space are effective and incremental.
• Developing the relationship with Retail, Product, Customer, SRM and Strategy & Trade teams.
• Being an expert on competitors Promotions and Events across all channels.
• Anticipate competitor activity to proactively build plans to ensure we “win the week”
• Understanding & utilisation of of Market Share Data - Circana & Kantar
  

• Experience in range development, trade planning, merchandising, buying and critical path management.
• Strong commercial judgement with a proven track record of using market data to drive decision making.
• Excellent analytical and data interpretation skills, with the ability to turn insights into action.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing and relationship-building capabilities.
• Effective communication and project management skills, with a customer-focused approach.
• Commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to balance customer, sales and profit outcomes.

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.

When you join us in this role, you'll be employed by Tesco Stores Limited, the Tesco legal entity responsible for your employment.