Job Title Trade Planning Assistant Location George House Employment Type Full time Contract Type Permanent Hours Per Week 37.5 Salary Competitive salary plus benefits. Category Corporate Visual Merchandising Closing Date 19 March 2025 Are you passionate about visual merchandising? A Trade Planning assistant role with George will provide you with the opportunity to develop your planning, visual merchandising, and communication skills as well as your understanding of the market, our customers and our competitors. You will work to drive conversion of existing & new Asda customers into George through easy to execute principles, layout and communication for stores. “Everything about Asda” We are a values-led organisation. As such we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input. Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant. We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do. “Everything you'll love” Hybrid and flexible working Discretionary bonus – Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts Company Pension Scheme matched to a limit – Looking forward to the future Minimum 24 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for your self and switch off 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year – really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business. Plus, much more “Find your role” Day to day you can expect to be involved in a variety of activities. You will be responsible for the production of store visual communications across Menswear, Schoolwear and key events.You will spend your time working cross functionally in a fast paced environment to ensure retail excellence for your department is delivered. You will support the team in producing principles and layouts to deliver excitement to the customer. You'll lead store engagement and communication for your department, ensuring store teams are well equipped with the tools to deliver your visual guide. You will spend time in stores, listening to colleagues and customers, providing feedback and actions into central teams & key stakeholders “Let's find out about you Previous experience in visual merchandising and passion for in store displays Ability to manage a critical path and manage day to day activity Ability to build strong collaborative relationships Strong knowledge of the market, customer and George's omnichannel competitors Strong commercial acumen and the ability to translate MI into actions for your department Ability to use InDesign, Photoshop and Microsoft Office “ Find your everything at Asda” – To be the Uks best fresh food & clothing superstore by satisfying the daily & weekly shopping needs of ordinary working people and their families who demand value. We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda. Work Where it Works Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to chose where you’ll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team. 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