Trade Planning Assistant

Asda is looking for a Trade Planning Assistant to work alongside our Trade Planning teams on a full-time and permanent contract basis.

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You will be joining us at an exciting time as we begin our journey to ASDA price and the simplification of our range and proposition. This is a key development role for anyone looking to broaden their skill set and would suit someone with a buying or marketing background.

This role reports into the Trade Planning Manager, which forms part of the commercial team and will cover all channels & formats.

The key areas of responsibility will be to support:

• Key stakeholder between buying, supply, merchandising & central retail operation teams to manage end-to-end critical path to deliver 'right first time' promotional plan for the business unit.

• Work closely with the Trade Planning Managers to select and prioritise key promotional activity to share with the central customer teams - gaining marketing support for business unit activity.

• Liaise with in-store marketing (POS) to ensure execution of promotional and seasonal POS.

• Support on event and range planning including autopsy process through engaging multiple internal stakeholders and supplier category teams. 

About You:

• Experience in buying, category management, customer planning or trade planning

• Have commercial understanding of the FMCG industry

• Ability to work independently and as part of wider, matrix team structure

• Experience of working with customer data to turn into action orientated plans

• Be comfortable handling admin and achieving deadlines

• The ability to influence at different levels across the business