Trade and Seasonal Planning Assistant

Trade and Seasonal Planning Assistant
£28,000 to £31,000 plus great benefits (Work level 6B)
Manchester city centre – hybrid working, splitting your time between working from home and coming into the office 2 to 3 times a week.

Would you like to play a key role in bringing our trade and seasonal plans to life? As a Trade & Seasonal Planning Assistant, you’ll provide vital organisation and administrative support to help us plan, deliver and review some of our biggest trading events.

Why this role matters

Our trade and seasonal events are some of the most important moments in our annual plan, driving sales, improving customer experience and helping us stand out in a competitive market. This role helps us to make sure that those events run smoothly and land brilliantly in our stores. From maintaining our trade plan and supporting promotions, to coordinating insights and presentations, the work you do will directly influence how our customers experience Co-op across key trading periods.

What you’ll be doing

• In this role, you'll support the team in shaping and delivering our trade and seasonal events plan by:
• Updating and maintaining essential planning documents, including the annual trade plan, sales briefs (Retail & B2B), promotional packages and event briefs
• Creating clear, engaging PowerPoint presentations to communicate key information to a range of colleagues
• Carrying out data checks alongside the Promotional Planning team to ensure accuracy in our promotional plans
• Completing competitor analysis for key trading events and turning insights into engaging, easy to understand summaries
• Helping to bring colleagues together to collaborate on seasonal event planning and promotional plans, aligned to our new Food strategy
• Supporting post implementation reviews for key sales driving moments throughout the trade plan
• Taking on a variety of ad-hoc tasks to help the team run smoothly and stay organised

What you’ll bring

• Strong organisational and planning skills
• Great communication and interpersonal skills
• Good IT skills, particularly in Microsoft PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel
• Strong presentation skills
• A high level of attention to detail

Why Co-op?

At Co-op, we’re owned by our members. And because we’re owned by you, we can do right by you. So when you join us, you’re not just taking a job, you’re joining a movement. We’re an organisation that puts people and communities first, and we’re powered by purpose. We want this to be a place where you can thrive, so you’ll also receive:

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays 
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Stream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

A place you’ll belong

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme at Disability Confident Scheme - Co-op Colleagues and more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion at Diversity and Inclusion

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes up to 50 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.