Lead Manager Trade Planning

Job Title Lead Manager Trade Planning Location Asda House Employment Type Full time Contract Type Permanent Hours per Week 37.5 Salary Competitive Salary plus benefits Category Category Management - SF Closing Date 2 August 2026 Asda is looking for a Senior Manager to lead part of our Trade Planning teams for our food and GM business on a permanent basis. Working as part of the busy but extremely rewarding Commercial team, you will be joining us at an exciting time as we continue our journey to ASDA price and the simplification of our range and proposition. This is a key development role for anyone looking to broaden their skills across Commercial and cross functionally across Asda. You will business partner our Business Unit Directors and your team will be an intrinsic part of the business units across Food/GM/Events and will operate to a matrix structure. This role reports directly into the Senior Director, Trade Planning and Price and will cover all channels & formats. The key areas of responsibility will be to support. • Collaborate closely with the category/customer and central ops teams translating and delivering the brief set from the strategic trade plan. • Collaborating with the customer team using analytics & insight to build a winning trading plan that delivers our formula for growth objectives. • Develop the strategic plan for promotional/event space as part of the category strategy output. • Design and run the post launch review process for large scale cross functional events • Lead & provide direction to the teams that sit within each of the business units to deliver to our customer and trade plans • A key measure of success will be how we drive and enable strong Trading plan execution for our customers across all channels About You • Experience of Retail, Category management, buying, marketing, or trade planning • Experienced leader with a record of building, motivating teams & leading teams through change. • Be able to read the market & competitive landscape and react at pace. • The ability to use data, interpret and build a strategy to deliver. • Capable of influencing and challenging at SD and VP level. Everything you'll love To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots. You will also get an excellent benefits package including: • Discretionary company bonus • Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%) • Company Car allowance of £8000 • 15% colleague discount in store and online • Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas. • Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated • Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments. We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves