Assistant Trade Planner

• Location: Amersham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Our client is a family run business, with an amazing product and a customer centric approach. They have stores in the UK and a rapidly growing online, International and concessions business. They really care about people, customers, and the communities in which they trade and are now looking for an Assistant Trade Planner. The role will be hybrid, with three days per week based out of their Amersham Head office, and two days per week working from home.

The Assistant Trade Planner will support the Trade Planning team by coordinating data-led, customer-relevant promotional and trading plans across channels. You will be commercially minded, highly organised, and methodical, with strong analytical capability and close attention to detail. As Assistant Trade Planner you will manage multiple work streams and critical paths with confidence, communicate clearly and proactively with stakeholders across Buying, Merchandising, Marketing, and Operations.

• Support the development and delivery of promotional and event plans using sales data, historical performance and competitor insight.
• Support critical path management to ensure promotions are executed accurately in store and across relevant channels.
• Track and analyse key performance metrics, including promotional uplift, event performance and trading trends.
• Produce regular reporting and ad-hoc analysis to highlight risks, opportunities and variances to plan.
• Identify emerging trends in promotions, pricing and events, escalating risks or issues where appropriate.
• Review competitor activity to inform planning decisions and trading recommendations.
• Assist with space optimisation activity across channels, ensuring plans are commercially and operationally viable.

• At least a year experience within a commercial head office role within retail, FMCG or a multi-channel environment.
• Degree educated (or equivalent experience) in a relevant subject (e.g., Business, Marketing, Economics, Maths or similar) would be a nice to have.
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to interpret sales, promotional and market data to identify trends, opportunities and risks.
• Advanced Excel skills (including formulas, pivot tables and data manipulation) and confidence working with large data sets.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Broader commercial retail experience, with a good understanding of how functions such as Buying, Merchandising and Marketing work together to deliver a trading plan.
• Experience using planning, reporting or project tools to manage calendars, critical paths and sign-off processes.

The Assistant Trade Planner role offers the chance to add immediate value with your skillset in a rapidly growing and evolving business. The position come with a competitive base salary, profit bonus of up to 15%, virtual GP and Brand & Partner discounts. There will be future career opportunities, in line with company growth. This would really suit somebody who is a year or two into their commercial head office career, looking for their next challenge.

Desire, passion, and excitement to take on a great role like this would all be welcome attributes.

If you would enjoy being part of our clients on-going success-story, then apply now to be considered for their Assistant Trade Planner role.