Merchandise Planning Manager - F&F - Central Europe

### About the role
As the Merchandise Planning Manager, you'll play a key role in delivering a profitable, customer-focused product offer. Partnering with Commercial teams, you'll shape range and pricing strategies that drive sales, competitiveness and growth.
Working closely with Finance and Marketing, you'll identify risks and opportunities, develop successful trade plans, and use market insights to maximise performance. You'll also ensure planning processes are delivered accurately and efficiently, supporting agile and effective decision-making across the business.

### What is in it for you
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- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
- Private medical insurance.
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.
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### You will be responsible for
Trade Analysis & Periodic Review
- Supporting leadership and commercial teams through weekly trade performance reviews, identifying risks and opportunities and modelling their impact on key business KPIs.
- Working collaboratively with commercial teams to build a bottom-up periodic forecast, ensuring alignment across all submission components (sales, SBG%, markdown, margin, intake, and stock). Ensure all stakeholders are clear on priorities and fully agreed on the plan.
- Partnering with Finance to submit periodic forecasts, clearly outlining movements affecting Clothing Sales, CGM, and cash flow.
Budget
- Collaborating with stakeholders across the organisation to build a credible yet ambitious Clothing budget.
- Work with commercial teams to set clear targets supported by measurable building blocks needed to deliver the budget.
- Partnering with Marketing to create a compelling and competitive trade plan that supports growth ambitions.
- Aligning with Sourcing on cost pressures and margin implications, ensuring clear mitigation strategies.
- Working closely with Finance to submit the full business plan, including sales and margin targets.
- Partnering with Store Operations and Store Stock Planning to ensure the budget and trade plan can be executed effectively in store for customers.
Customer & Market Insights
- Work closely with the Insights team to understand customer perceptions, identify areas for improvement, and incorporate sustainability goals. Track market trends, competitor activity, and external influences, sharing insights with relevant stakeholders.
Process Simplification

- Partner with Tools, Systems, and Business Intelligence teams to streamline processes and enhance efficiency across the Home and Clothing business.

You will need

- Strong organisational ability
- Attention to detail
- Responsiveness
- Commercial acumen

### About us
You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues. At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support. We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here (https://www.tesco.com/careers/en-GB/accessibility) for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying. When you join us in this role, you'll be employed by Tesco Stores Limited, the Tesco legal entity responsible for your employment.