Online Trade Sales and Planning Manager

At a glance:

• Working pattern: We know flexible working is important to you, and it is important to us too. The Partnership has adopted a blended working approach meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the Bracknell Head Office and home, based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business.

• Salary range - £53,000 - £80,500 p/a

• Contract type - Permanent

About the role:

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Online Trading team as an Online Trade and Sales Planning Manager, reporting into the Online Trading Lead - Planning, Supplier & Development.

This role is ideal for a superstar communicator that is commercial and insight driven. You will be forward thinking, customer focused and a strong stakeholder manager with a proven history as an effective influencer.

In this role, you will:

• Own and orchestrate the annual Online Trade Plan to meet its goals and objectives - maximising sales and profit along with customer satisfaction

• Translate offsite to onsite digital and trading activities into commercial sales and volume forecasts

• Develop and manage effective planning processes that ensure the Online Trade Plan serves our customers

• Coach and support your team to manage stakeholders across business functions - as well as participate in and lead working groups in order to plan, execute and review trade plan effectiveness

• Establish a solid framework for continuous improvement for trade planning alongside insight and analytics

• Lead the Online Trading forecasting methodologies and data ensuring forecasts are robust and well communicated across the business

• Drive a performance culture, providing thought leadership on evaluating data and customer insight to shape activity

Essential skills you’ll need:

• Trade or marketing planning experience

• Campaign management experience

• Commercial/sales/performance forecasting experience

• P&L ownership experience

• Sound analytical and business insight skills

• Highly numerate working with Excel/Sheets

• Ability to influence across boundaries and senior leadership

• Strong stakeholder management skills

• Leadership and people development

• Online experience within retail

• Online customer journey and marketing experience

Benefits of the Partnership:

• After 3 months, you will enjoy 25% discount at John Lewis (most items) and 20% discount in Waitrose

• We have a competitive pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay)

• An excellent work life balance, including focus on wellbeing and flexible working, along with our marketing-leading equal parenthood leave policy.

• Full benefits: https://www.jlpjobs.com/about/benefits/

Next Steps:

• The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process").

• You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you.

• If you are successful following the application & CV screening process, the next stage is likely to be a video interview to be held w/c 17th April.

• Thanks for your patience in the meantime, and for showing an interest in joining JLP.

Please note: We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early.

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