Head of Trade Planning & Response

Job Description:Job information Head of Trade Planning & Response from the Company Sainsbury's, this latest Head of Trade Planning & Response job vacancy is located in the city Coventry CV located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Head field have been opened and published up to the specified time.Job Responsibility:Location Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Sainsbury's Store Support Centre Draken Drive Ansty Park, Coventry, CV7 9RD Hours Full-time Contract-Type Permanent Salary Competitive Plus Benefits Areas of business Non Food Closing date 2024/05/29 09:12:00 Job ID 235156Job DescriptionWe'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 areUnderstanding on how to take a directional brief through to a comprehensive, multi-functional plan and deliver itExperience leading a multi-channel business across a number of commercial, analytical and operational disciplines such as Commercial, Digital, Marketing, Retail and Supply ChainDeep experience in forming, nurturing, inspiring and empowering cross functional teams, across a broad range disciplines and capabilitiesAbility to chair and strong knowledge of a broad range of facilitation, coaching and presentation techniques, that can be utilised across multiple functions and audiencesPassion for and knowledge of retail, ecommerce and consumer technology with familiarity of customer trends, market dynamics, competition and financial insightsStrong project management experience and organisation skills, with experience of working collaboratively and cross functionally. Demonstrated ability to lead teams to deliver projectsMake it better - Balance analytical, strategic, and pragmatic thinking; whilst pushing boundaries bringing innovative, distinctive, and brave ideas to the planBe Human - a great influencer; building relationships, inspiring, and gaining trust at all levels and across all divisions, showing care and respect to everyoneOwn it - Ability to set own agenda, balancing multiple priorities, and spotting risks. Strong resilience to manage an always on plan and a demanding set of stakeholdersProven talent development and succession planning experience with a passion for championing diversity and role modelling inclusive leadershipAn inspiring leader, with an ability to really connect and resonate with Sainsbury's, our customers, and our values#LI-MB2 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 65% of salary, depending on how we perform (in cash and shares). 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, 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. You'll also receive a company car cash allowance unless you are going to travel 10,000 business miles in your role, then you'll be able to choose a car. 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 www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).Keywords : Coventry jobsClosed Date :
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