As a Category Planning Assistant within the Household, Pet and Healthcare categories you will Support in the execution of the 18-month plan to meet and exceed customer needs to deliver competitive advantage. Through partnering with our traders and working with our corporate marketing teams, you’ll ensure that we understand our customers’ needs and assist in the development of marketing strategies to meet and exceed these needs to ultimately deliver a competitive advantage and therefore drive sales.

This is a fantastic opportunity to help deliver impactful promotions, range changes and be a true subject matter expert on the customer journey for your categories!

Your Role

Day to day your role will involve co-ordination of the annual customer activity plan to deliver impactful promotions, range changes, NPD launches and seasonal activity aligned to the corporate priorities.

Ownership and delivery of the associated administrative tasks of the customer activity plan will take up the majority of your time.

You will support in the execution of the marketing plan and impactful POS to deliver a great customer shopping experience.

Within this role you will work closely with various teams in Asda including traders, marketing, brand teams and suppliers.

The teams are all helpful and supportive, and it’s a brilliant role to understand how the business works, as well as being very rewarding seeing activity you have worked on land in Asda stores!

About You

• Customer focus and commercial awareness.
• Ability to network and build relationships internally and externally.
• Strong prioritisation, planning and organisational skills to manage for a high volume of varied tasks.
• Being motivated and a team player is key to success.

If flexible working is important to you, then look no further! At Asda, we are proud of our culture and our commitment to flexible working. This role is based at Asda House, Leeds with the opportunity to work from home 2-3 days per week

You will also get an excellent benefits package including;-

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.

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.