Trade Planning Assistant
| Posting date: | 14 February 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 27 February 2025 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/8568366/928280 |
Summary
About the role
A fantastic and unique opportunity has arisen for a Trade Planning Assistant to join our team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a strong level of commercial acumen and prior retail office experience to build recommendations on in-store retail events.
We\'re looking for an experienced individual who will use insight and analytical data to ensure we deliver a great proposition for our customers and Tesco across all channels.
You will be responsible for
- Understanding the drivers of performance through sound analytics and use this to build recommendations
- Applying insight and customer understanding to the Events programme to support space optimization, sales and customer perception
- Communicating and owning delivery of the critical path, prioritizing promotions and ranges based on customer needs and calendar themes. Escalate risks or issues to your manager in a timely fashion
- Developing the relationship with Retail, Product, Customer and SRD
- Being an expert on competitors Promotions and Events across all channels
- Owning the review highlighting trends and make recommendations on improvement by channel (stores & Online)
- Adhering to all Tesco policies, storage and hand over protocols and successfully completing all required training
You will need
- Range development
- Trade planning
- Merchandise Planning or Buying
- Critical Path Management
- Proven track record of making decisions on Market Data
- Analytical and data interpretation skills
- Influencing and Communication skills
Operational Skills:
- Commercial and Financial Acumen
- Stakeholder Management & Influencing
- Communication Skills & Building Relationships
- Project Management
- Data Analysis
- Customer Focus
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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
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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