Customer Trade Planning Manager

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About Matalan

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About the role

As Customer Trade Planning Manager, you will be Accountable for developing, optimising, executing & reviewing a seasonal customer trade plan.

What will you do:

• Building, managing & optimising a seasonal trade plan, including all full price & promotional activations, to drive more reasons to visit for our customer segments
• Using customer, market & business insight to maximise customer & commercial opportunities in both the short & long term
• Working collaboratively with the customer propositions manager to understand the role of propositions within the seasonal trade plan & applying this to specific events or activations
• Briefing Product, Insight, Campaign, Customer & Channel teams to support the development of the customer trade plan both in the short & long term
• Project managing seasonal events using the customer trade planning critical path, ensuring key meetings are diarised & deadlines are met for seamless execution.
• Setting agendas for planning meetings, taking minutes & following up with actions
• Working cross functionally & building strong relationships across all parts of the business in order to consistently communicate, influence & deliver customer plans effectively
• Representing the customer team in; trade, planning & sign off meetings, acting as the voice of the customer, ensuring plans are delivered on time & against the KPIs
• Being able to organise & manage time effectively including juggling multiple seasons, tasks & deadlines whilst being able to recognise & prioritise business critical tasks
• Championing efficient, simple process & always looking for ways to improve processes
• Co-ordinating & organising the delivery of the lessons learnt for your season including any cross channel key events, launches or activations.
• Engaging & influencing key stakeholders across the business at all levels
• Provide support to the Senior Customer Propositions & Planning Manager by sharing expertise and information to support effective decision making
• Supporting the wider Customer Trade Planning team when required & support an energetic, enthusiastic & supportive team culture.

About You

• +5 years experience in a commercial trade facing role - marketing, buying, merchandising, planning, eCommerce, finance or retail management
• Strong communication & project management skills
• Able to lead cross functional groups with a proven record in influencing at all levels
• Good understanding of retail within an omnichannel environment.
• Ability to turn complex data and insight into actions plans

Benefits

In addition to competitive salaries, we also offer the below core benefits:

• 20% staff discount, which increases with length of service
• Thrive Recognition Scheme
• Wellbeing support provided by the Retail Trust
• Life Assurance
• Retail Rewards platform offering discounts for other retailers
• Pension Scheme
• Access to a wide range of career development
• Additional benefits may apply depending on your role and area of the business