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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