Commercial Planning Manager

Company: Premier Foods
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Location: St Albans
Job Description:

Overview

In this Commercial Planning Manager role, you turn brand and category strategies into actionable plans that drive sales growth. You will lead cross-functional collaboration across Sales, Marketing, Commercial Finance, Supply Chain and Category Management to shape pricing, promotions, and innovation execution. You’ll own the monthly planning cycle, develop medium-term pack and price architectures, and support new product development through P&L planning. This is a high-visibility opportunity to influence how brands connect with customers and consumers while sharpening commercial insights and decision-making. You will work in a dynamic, cross-functional environment to translate strategy into a

Pay / Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Bonus
  • Car allowance
  • Company pension
  • Private medical
  • Holiday purchase scheme

Responsibilities

  • Translate brand and category strategies into commercial plans aligned to sales budgets
  • Own monthly commercial planning cycle integrating Sales, Marketing and Customer strategies
  • Shape pack, price and promotional architecture across channels and formats
  • Develop and execute promotional strategies with focus on ROI
  • Analyze forecasts, identify risks, and propose contingency and gap-closure actions
  • Lead medium-term pack and price architecture strategies across brands
  • Support new product development through P&L planning and promotions
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to build bottom-up budgets and identify risks/opportunities
  • Ensure innovation is executed brilliantly across brands

Key requirements

  • Strong commercial experience, ideally in major multiples sales
  • Good understanding of P&L management
  • Ability to analyze information and turn insight into action
  • Strategic thinking and decisive leadership skills
  • Capability to lead, influence and build relationships across functions
  • Strong prioritisation in a busy commercial environment
  • Marketing, Category or Supply Chain experience is an advantage
  • Leadership
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Analytical mindset
  • P&L management
  • Sales forecasting
  • Promotional planning

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Posted: October 23rd, 2026