Trade Planning Assistant (12 month Fixed Term Contract)

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. That being said, we also know life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

A fantastic and unique opportunity has arisen for a Trade Planning Assistant to join our team on a fixed term period of 12 months. 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.

• 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

• 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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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

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.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. 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 click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.