<h3 class="theme-panel-header text-2xl pb-6 theme-vacancy-section-title">About the role</h3><p><span><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></span></p><p><strong>Strategy &amp; KPIs</strong></p><p>• Work closely with the Director of Trading, planning and merchandising to shape a Trade Plan that attracts and retains customers, turning strategic objectives into clear and authoritative promotions, activities and events across all channels.</p><p>• Ensure the Trade Plan aligns with the Company and Divisional strategies, designed to achieve annual sales and profit targets.</p><p>• Agree and monitor each Trade Plan period’s performance KPIs against agreed sales, profit and customer targets, taking learnings to inform subsequent plans.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Trade Planning</strong></p><p>• Chair the weekly Trade Planning Execution Meeting</p><p>• Attend and support the Director of Trading, planning and merchandising in chairing the weekly Trade Planning Group Meeting, where the trade plan is set and agreed with cross-functional stakeholders</p><p>• Use a broad range of internal/external data and insight, continually evaluate trading plans to ensure they are operationally achievable and deliver annual sales, profit and customer targets over an 18-month horizon</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Leadership and ways of working</strong></p><p>• Manage cross-functionally with colleagues across Buying, Merchandising, Marketing, Retail Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Partnerships, Insights, Loyalty and Online, to create and execute Trade Plans, right first time.</p><p>• Manage the Trade Activity Retro process, ensuring reviews of outcomes and their drivers are conducted within 4 weeks of a trade driving activity finishing.</p><p>• Present review findings to the Trade Planning Group.&nbsp;</p><p>• Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues to ensure Critical Path dates are achieved in the planning and execution of trading activity.&nbsp;</p><p>• Escalate and manage accordingly any re-prioritisation or recovery steps to keep teams on track for delivery.</p><p>• Manages and develops the Trade Planning Assistant</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Commercial Acumen</strong></p><p>• Use your commercial acumen to make recommendations and trade-offs of proposed trade plan activity, working closely with the Director of Trading &amp; Merchandising, Heads of Merchandising and the Commercial Finance Business Partner</p><p>• Forecast the target sales, profit and customer performance of each trade plan activity</p><div class="absolute bottom-2 right-2"><button onclick="scrollToTop()" class="theme-primary p-2 rounded-lg flex"><i translate="no" class="material-symbols-outlined"> arrow_upward </i></button></div>