Trade Planning Assistant - Leeds

Asda is looking for a Trade Planning Assistant to work alongside our Trade Planning teams on a full-time and permanent contract basis. Find your role You will be joining us at an exciting time as we begin our journey to ASDA price and the simplification of our range and proposition. This is a key development role for anyone looking to broaden their skill set and would suit someone with a buying or marketing background. This role reports into the Trade Planning Manager, which forms part of the commercial team and will cover all channels & formats. The key areas of responsibility will be to support:

• 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.
• Work closely with the Trade Planning Managers to select and prioritise key promotional activity to share with the central customer teams - gaining marketing support for business unit activity.
• 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.
  
  Experience in buying, category management, customer planning or trade planning
• Have commercial understanding of the FMCG industry
• Ability to work independently and as part of wider, matrix team structure
• Experience of working with customer data to turn into action orientated plans
• Be comfortable handling admin and achieving deadlines
• The ability to influence at different levels across the business, 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 Stream, 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