Head of Trade Planning - Coventry, United Kingdom - Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's
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Coventry, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Location

  • Coventry Store Support Centre
  • Ansty Park and Home, Sainsbury's Store Support Centre Draken Drive Ansty Park, Coventry, CV7 9RD

Hours

  • Fulltime

Contract-Type

  • Permanent

Salary

  • Competitive Plus Benefits

Areas of business

  • Non Food

Closing date

  • 2024/05/29 09:12:00

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We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury's.

From fragrance to car care, clothing and pots and pans, our General Merchandise team delivers all the non-food items for Sainsbury's, Habitat and Argos customers.

This multi-brand environment means you get to work across most areas. You can also be a pioneer, because the team believes in being brave, iterating and learning as they go. They also develop deep connections to other departments, which opens up a lot of different career opportunities for you.

What's certain is that you'll spend time on the shop floor to get closer to customers, and bring a broad perspective and the full support of your manager with you wherever you decide to develop next.

Why join us


Joining Sainsbury's as the Head of Trade Planning and Response offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

As a key leader within our organisation, you will drive the translation of strategic priorities into an ambitious plan that propels our GM business to outperform the market and deliver exceptional outcomes.

With a focus on innovation and insight-led planning, you will collaborate with senior teams across Sainsbury's and Argos to ensure alignment and execution excellence.

Leading a diverse and passionate team, you will foster a culture of experimentation, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.

This role allows you to shape and influence major moments and events, ensuring a cohesive trade plan that showcases our value and assortment to customers across multiple brands and channels.

Join us and be at the forefront of driving trade responsiveness and shaping the future of our business.

What you'll do


As the Head of Trade Planning and Response at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in translating the company's strategic priorities into an ambitious plan that sets the GM business up to outperform the market and achieve desired outcomes.

You will drive innovation and insight-led planning to create the GM Trading Plan, setting business priorities from the short-term to 18 months out.

Partnering and influencing senior teams across Sainsbury's and Argos, you will ensure alignment to execute the plan effectively.

Engaging with senior stakeholders, you will drive decisions to resolve trade-offs, while clearly communicating the expected financial and customer outcomes.

Leading the end-to-end event planning and execution of major moments, you will ensure alignment across channels and adherence to the overarching proposition principles.

Regularly reviewing and adapting the plan, you will work with functional owners to make choices at the director level and communicate risks, dependencies, blockers, and assumptions to relevant stakeholders.

Additionally, you will lead and develop a diverse team, foster a culture of experimentation and learning, and identify and mobilise necessary resources to enhance trade responsiveness.

This role offers a unique opportunity to lead a team at the heart of both short-term trade response and longer-term planning, collaborating with stakeholders across all brands and channels, driving trade execution, and maximising business potential.

Who you are

Understanding on how to take a directional brief through to a comprehensive, multi-functional plan and deliver it

Experience leading a multi-channel business across a number of commercial, analytical and operational disciplines such as Commercial, Digital, Marketing, Retail and Supply Chain

Deep experience in forming, nurturing, inspiring and empowering cross functional teams, across a broad range disciplines and capabilities

Ability to chair and strong knowledge of a broad range of facilitation, coaching and presentation techniques, that can be utilised across multiple functions and audiences

Passion for and knowledge of retail, ecommerce and consumer technology with familiarity of customer trends, market dynamics, competition and financial insights

Strong project management experience and organisation skills, with experience of working collaboratively and cross functionally. Demonstrated ability to lead teams to deliver projects

Make it better - Balance analytical, strategic, and pragmatic thinking; whilst pushing boundaries bringing innovative, distinctive, and brave ideas to the plan

Be Human - a great influencer; building relationships, inspiring, and gaining trust at all levels and across all divisions, showing care and respect to everyone

Own it - Ability to set own agenda, balancing multiple priorities, and spotting risks. Strong resilience to mana
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