Commercial Planning Manager

Based - St Albans, AL1 2RE (Hybrid)

Permanent, Full Time

Join Premier Foods — where people, brands and purpose come together.

Turn brand strategy into commercial growth

Are you commercially minded, confident working across Sales and Marketing, and passionate about turning great brand plans into strong commercial results?

We’re looking for a Commercial Planning Manager to join our Sales team. This is a key commercial leadership role where you’ll help bring our branded category strategies to life, translating them into plans that deliver against our sales ambitions.

You’ll be at the heart of our commercial decision-making, working across Sales, Marketing, Commercial Finance, Supply Chain and Category Management. From shaping pricing and promotional strategy to driving brilliant innovation execution, you’ll have the opportunity to influence how our brands show up for customers and consumers.

What you’ll be doing

• Translating our brand and category strategies into clear commercial plans that deliver against budgeted sales.
• Bringing Sales and Customer strategies into our brand plans and owning the monthly commercial planning cycle.
• Shaping pack, price and promotional architecture across different channels and formats.
• Developing and executing promotional strategies, with a focus on improving promotional return on investment.
• Analysing business forecasts, identifying key issues and helping teams respond with clear contingency and gap-closure plans.
• Leading medium-term pack and price architecture strategies across our brands.
• Supporting new product development through P&L planning and promotional plans.
• Working cross-functionally to build bottom-up budgets and identify risks and opportunities.
• Helping ensure innovation is executed brilliantly across our brands.  

What we need from you

• Strong commercial experience, ideally within major multiples sales.
• A good understanding of P&L management.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to analyse information and turn insight into action.
• Strategic thinking and strong decision-making skills.
• The confidence to lead, influence and build strong relationships across different functions.
• The ability to prioritise effectively in a busy commercial environment.
• Marketing, Category or Supply Chain experience would be an advantage.

What we offer you in return

This is a great opportunity to broaden your commercial experience in a role with real visibility and influence. You’ll work across Sales, Marketing, Commercial Finance, Supply Chain and Category Management, giving you a wide view of how brand and customer strategies come together to drive performance.

You’ll have the chance to take ownership, bring fresh thinking and make an impact across pricing, promotions, innovation and commercial planning, while continuing to build your skills and experience within Premier Foods.

Alongside the opportunity to grow your career, we offer a great range of benefits, including:

• Competitive salary
• Bonus
• Car allowance
• Company pension
• Private medical
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Sharesave scheme
• EV car scheme
• Paid volunteering day
• Access to our employee benefits platform

At Premier foods we believe in inclusion, authenticity and individuality. We aim to ensure all existing and future colleagues are given equitable opportunities and are respected, valued and encouraged to bring their true authentic selves to work no matter who they are, what they look like, who they love or what they believe in. Our culture is one where everyone is welcome.

We're proud to be a Disability Smart employer and are committed to supporting disability inclusion throughout our recruitment process. If you experience any access issues or require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know so we can ensure you have the support you need.