Senior Commercial Planning Manager (Convenience)

St Albans, England, United Kingdom

10/15/2024

Senior Commercial Planning Manager

Convenience Channel

St Albans / Hybrid

We have an exciting opportunity to join our sales department as a Senior Commercial Planning Manager. This is a commercial leadership role, primarily focused on unlocking the identified strategic growth priority of the Convenience channel. This is ideal for someone who is experienced in front line sales/account management (major multiples sales preferred), couples with strong financial experience and P&L understanding. This position will also oversee direct reports at commercial planning manager level.

To excel in this role, you'll need to be highly analytical and able to articulate complexity with simplicity. This role requires an individual who is a confident decision maker. For this role, we're really keen to bring in someone who is resilient. This role would really suit somebody who is a strategic thinker with astute commercial awareness.

The role

You will have accountability across all Grocery and Sweet Treats categories. Your role is instrumental in driving the identified strategic growth priority of the Convenience channel. Your remit is to support the business to achieve its blend of internal and external channel-specific objectives including turnover, profit, innovation, and market share for the Convenience Channel. Strong leadership & influencing skills – ability to lead across multiple stakeholders at senior level. Confident communicator at all levels. Self-starter with strong priority setting capability.

The Key Requirements...

• Responsible for working cross functionally with all Commercial teams to develop brand & channel strategies to deliver budgeted sales, profit and NPD targets
• Develop, agree, drive execution of promotional strategy and guidelines across all brands for the Convenience channel.
• Improve promotional return on investment for brands category
• Analyse and review business forecast & key issues in business planning process influencing Customer teams to drive outperformance.
• Design of pack, price & promotional architecture specific to the Convenience channel
• Accountable for the commercialisation of Channel relevant NPD including pricing, promotional support and ensuring execution through the sales team achieving objectives
• Ensure Sales and Customer strategies are integrated into brand plans by influencing Brand Directors.
• Accountable for creating the sell stories / decks for NPD for the Convenience channel (not writing every page but ensuring it meets the needs of the business)
  
  
  

Here at Premier Foods, our shared values are the DNA of our business, guiding us in the way we operate and challenging us to live them day-to-day. We are proud of being an employer of choice, known for our commitment to our values and creating a positive workplace culture.

This is an opportunity to excel and grow within our business.

The Benefits And Perks...

• Bonus
• Company Car Allowance
• Company Pension
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Hybrid working
• Private Medical Insurance