Assistant Trade Planner - Home - 6 Month Secondment

Our Trade Planning team partners with Buying and Merchandising to deliver exciting, market‑leading ranges and promotions that showcase fantastic products and great value for our customers. In this role, you’ll support the Trade Planning Manager to shape the Home promotional plan - planning and delivering promotions on time, reporting with accuracy, and working across multiple functions to make it all happen.

If you’ve got strong communication skills, an analytical mindset, and a passion for bringing great products to life, this could be the perfect next step for you.

You will be responsible for:

• A key part of the Home team, supporting with trade, promotional and events planning for my category, ensuring we deliver a great proposition for our customers. (incl. identifying new initiatives, simplifying the offer to improve store implementation)

• Supporting my manager with the delivery of the category trade and events plan (incl. identifying new initiatives, simplifying the offer to improve store implementation)

• Delivering accurate weekly trade figures and commentary for all Home promotional & event space and presenting trade at team meetings.

• Circulating product performance data to the category team, ensuring all documentation is up to date and accessible

• Creating promotional review and launch documents & conducting analysis to recommend continuous improvements for forthcoming promotional cycles.

o Using different sources to review performance; internal reporting of sales, stock, margin; market analysis - drivers/drainers vs IRI; competitive pricing vs market

• Monitor competitor activity to ensure we are offering the best trade plan for our customers

• Recommending improvements to the promotional programme with a focus on

o Simplicity for stores

o Commercial relevance

o Great value for customers

• Owning promotions for a defined product area, ensuring critical path is adhered to and communicating and scheduling relevant meetings with the appropriate stake holders.

• Being a point of contact for the General Merchandise events ensuring that products & execution is right for customer. Ensuring critical path is met and contributing in NWTs

• Collating nominations for promotional space and loading successful nominations into reporting systems.

• Leading weekly set up meetings to ensure excellent availability for promotional launches. Liaising with the Home Supply Chain team and Retails teams to ensure smooth implementation of trade plans and great customer experience.

• Supporting the roll out of new projects & initiatives.

• Liaising with the Central Events team, keeping the plan aligned with the critical path

• Signing off the require POS on Home trade plans by category

• Ensuring all key initiatives are communicated clearly to customers and stores

o Visibility of store communications

o Using Yammer to collate feedback from stores

• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence

You will need:

You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Data analysis and numeracy.

• MS Office (esp. Excel).

• Clear communication (including presentation skills).

Personal

• Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter

• Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership

• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation.

What's in it for you:

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) 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

About us:

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.

We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility