This role is for a 12 month fixed term contract.
As Digital Trade Planning Manager you’ll be responsible for ensuring we’re brilliantly showing up to our customers across our digital channel through the delivery of a robust trade and event plan, which delivers against our customer and commercial strategic ambitions. This role puts the customer at the heart of our digital activity and takes responsibility for the most important trading messages of a given season, event or campaign.
What outcomes you need to deliver
1. Champion the digital channel across the business, ensuring its needs and potential are realised in Customer and Proposition planning.
2. Own all Digital Customer and Trade Planning for Food, ensuring plans reflect strategic ambitions.
3. Lead the Trade Planning Lead, overseeing high-traffic (including Homepage) strategy and ongoing optimisation.
4. Manage a team of Event Trading Leads to deliver cross-category events and brand campaigns to plan.
5. Incorporate key market and customer insights into trade planning to identify competitive opportunities.
6. Ensure Digital Content, Experience, and Product teams’ roadmaps support event and campaign execution.
7. Collaborate with Nectar360 to maximise monetisation opportunities on high-traffic and event pages.
8. Work closely with Digital Operations to ensure operational readiness for key trading events and protect customer service levels.
What you need to know and show
9. In-depth understanding of Digital retail, ideally in a large retail organisation with customer-centric experience (essential).
10. Skilled in web-analysis and performance data to inform strategic decisions; Adobe experience highly desirable (essential).
11. Experience managing and developing customer and trading plans, from strategy to communication (essential).
12. Strong grasp of the Digital retail market and factors influencing channel performance and customer expectations.
13. Ability to quickly identify trading risks and opportunities, and seek effective solutions.
14. Highly analytical and confident with commercial measures and metrics.
15. Confident communicator, able to present to large audiences and deliver effective written communications with data and story visualisation.
16. Able to influence broader business decisions and prioritisation, ensuring digital requirements are met.
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. As the link between sellers and buyers, retail and head office, our retail operations team is the cog that keeps things running. With teams focused on store facing, labour, transformation, online, delivery and contact centre work, we touch almost every part of the business. It’s an incredibly fast-paced environment where you need to pivot not just daily, but often hourly. So while we plan all we can, it’s vital that we all think outside our job descriptions and look to optimise and improve how we do everything. There’s also a real team ethos. After all, it’s people like you who are going to truly transform this part of the business.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).