Our Trade Planning team partners with Buying and Merchandising to deliver exciting, market‑leading ranges and promotions that showcase fantastic products and great value for our customers. In this role, you’ll support the Trade Planning Manager to shape the Home promotional plan - planning and delivering promotions on time, reporting with accuracy, and working across multiple functions to make it all happen. If you’ve got strong communication skills, an analytical mindset, and a passion for bringing great products to life, this could be the perfect next step for you. • A key part of the Home team, supporting with trade, promotional and events planning for my category, ensuring we deliver a great proposition for our customers. (incl. identifying new initiatives, simplifying the offer to improve store implementation) • Supporting my manager with the delivery of the category trade and events plan (incl. identifying new initiatives, simplifying the offer to improve store implementation) • Delivering accurate weekly trade figures and commentary for all Home promotional & event space and presenting trade at team meetings. • Circulating product performance data to the category team, ensuring all documentation is up to date and accessible • Creating promotional review and launch documents & conducting analysis to recommend continuous improvements for forthcoming promotional cycles. o Using different sources to review performance; internal reporting of sales, stock, margin; market analysis - drivers/drainers vs IRI; competitive pricing vs market • Monitor competitor activity to ensure we are offering the best trade plan for our customers • Recommending improvements to the promotional programme with a focus on o Simplicity for stores o Commercial relevance o Great value for customers • Owning promotions for a defined product area, ensuring critical path is adhered to and communicating and scheduling relevant meetings with the appropriate stake holders. • Being a point of contact for the General Merchandise events ensuring that products & execution is right for customer. Ensuring critical path is met and contributing in NWTs • Collating nominations for promotional space and loading successful nominations into reporting systems. • Leading weekly set up meetings to ensure excellent availability for promotional launches. Liaising with the Home Supply Chain team and Retails teams to ensure smooth implementation of trade plans and great customer experience. • Supporting the roll out of new projects & initiatives. • Liaising with the Central Events team, keeping the plan aligned with the critical path • Signing off the require POS on Home trade plans by category • Ensuring all key initiatives are communicated clearly to customers and stores o Visibility of store communications o Using Yammer to collate feedback from stores • Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of: • Data analysis and numeracy. • MS Office (esp. Excel). • Clear communication (including presentation skills). Personal • Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter • Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership • Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation.