Media Planning Manager

Competitive salary plus benefits

"Let's find your role"

Deliver our Joint Marketing Plans with suppliers by aligning supplier brand plans into our category & our Food commercial agenda. Ensure the team plans & executes the campaigns in the best way possible to deliver the agreed JMP to drive the relevant category market share and deliver an ROI for our brands.

You will:

• Supplier management – monthly JMPs with our key supplier partners to plan big bets and key campaigns
• Internal P&L reporting – highlighting risks/ops to the commercial team against the agreed JMP number
• Promo planning & events – internal planning meetings and challenging suppliers involvement in Asda’s key promos & events
• Quarterly business reviews – ensure using previous insight/learnings on ROI for future campaigns
• Compliance – liaising with our retail teams and our third party suppliers to ensure strong compliance on campaigns
• Team – set direction for the team, hold team to account on critical path, bookings etc

"Let's find out about you"

• Commercial knowledge required and experience in how to run a P&L preferred
• Proactively manages own workload, being able to prioritise projects and ad-hoc requests where necessary, ensuring campaign milestones are achieved
• Has a keen eye for detail and is a creative thinker, ensuring the highest standards are met to deliver best in class campaigns for our suppliers
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills to both internal and external stakeholders and can easily work cross-functionally
• Adapts well to significant change and challenges, thinks 'outside the box' to overcome barriers
• Experience in a marketing function required as well as a background in retail

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

• Company Car allowance of £5,700

• 15% colleague discount in store and online

• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 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