Trade Planning Manager

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. You will be responsible for

• 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"
  
  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.
  
  Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• Private medical insurance.
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.