# Trader - Tea

**Company**: Asda
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive salary
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Trader to join our Tea category team at Asda. As a Trader, you will play a pivotal role in driving sales, profitability, and customer satisfaction across the category.

Responsibilities:

- Supporting the development and delivery of the category strategy, ensuring strong commercial performance and customer relevance.

- Managing day-to-day trading activity to deliver sales, profit, and market share growth.

- Building and maintaining strong relationships with key supplier partners, delivering mutually beneficial outcomes.

- Negotiating pricing, promotional investment, and commercial agreements to maximise value for customers and Asda.

- Analysing customer, market, and competitor insights to identify opportunities for growth and innovation.

- Supporting the delivery of category plans, range reviews, and product launches.

- Managing promotional performance and evaluating campaign effectiveness to optimise results.

- Monitoring market trends, commodity movements, and wider industry developments that may impact category performance.

- Working cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Finance, Marketing, Data & Insights, and Retail Operations teams to ensure successful execution of trading plans.

- Contributing to the delivery of category profitability through effective cost and margin management.

Requirements:

- Experience in a commercial trading, buying, category management, or FMCG role.

- Strong commercial awareness with a passion for delivering results.

- Excellent analytical skills and confidence using data to support decision-making.

- Effective negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to build strong supplier relationships.

- Strong stakeholder management capabilities and the confidence to collaborate across multiple teams.

- A customer-focused mindset with the ability to balance commercial objectives and customer needs.

- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

- A proactive approach to identifying opportunities and solving challenges.

Benefits:

- Discretionary company bonus

- Company pension up to 7% matched

- 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

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- commercial trading
- buying
- category management
- FMCG
- analytical skills
- negotiation
- influencing
- stakeholder management
- organisational skills

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