Job Description

Job Title Category Trade Planning Coordinator (Fresh Food)
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 11 September 2025
Asda is looking for a Category Trade Planning Coordinator to work in our Trade Planning & Category Strategy teams on a full-time and permanent contract basis.
Find your role
You will be joining us at an exciting time as we begin 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 skill set and would suit someone with a buying, marketing background.
You will business partner with the buyers in the team and you will be an integral part of the business unit owning the trade plan and developing the customer proposition.
This role reports into the Category Trade Planning Manager for Trade Planning and Category Strategy which is part of the commercial team and will cover all channels & formats.
The key areas of responsibility will be to support
Ownership of the relationship with a central marketing teams to create a customer proposition for the business unit - gaining marketing comms support for business unit activity.
Key stakeholder between buying, supply, merchandising & central retail operation teams to manage end-to-end critical path to deliver 'right first time' promotional plan for the business unit.
Liaise with in-store marketing (POS) to ensure execution of promotional and seasonal POS.
Support on event and range planning including autopsy process through engaging multiple internal stakeholders and supplier category teams.
Arrange workshops, reviews and sign-off meetings as required to facilitate the trade plan.
Let's find out about you
Experience in buying, category management, customer planning or trade planning
Have commercial understanding of the FMCG industry
Ability to work independently and as part of wider, matrix team structure
Experience of working with customer data to turn into action orientated plans
Be comfortable handling admin and achieving deadlines
The ability to influence at different levels across the business
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 to 7% matched
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 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

Skills Required