# Trader - Bought In Cake

**Company**: Asda
**Location**: Asda House
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive salary plus benefits
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Trader - Bought In Cake to join our team at Asda House. You will work alongside a Trading Manager to own the end-to-end trading performance of the Bought in Cake Category, delivering sales, profit, and market share growth.

Responsibilities:

- Developing and executing category strategies that align with customer trends, market opportunities, and Asda's wider commercial objectives.

- Leading supplier negotiations across pricing, promotions, range development, innovation, and strategic investment.

- Building strong, collaborative partnerships with key suppliers to deliver joint business plans and long-term growth.

- Managing category P&L performance, balancing value, volume, margin, and customer satisfaction.

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

- Driving category range reviews, product launches, and promotional strategies to ensure a compelling customer offer.

- Monitoring commodity and market dynamics, translating insight into effective commercial actions.

- Working cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Finance, Retail Operations, Technical, Marketing, and Product Development teams to deliver category objectives.

- Leading initiatives that improve cost-to-serve, operational efficiency, and sustainable category growth.

Requirements:

- Experience in a commercial Trading, Buying, or Category Management role, ideally within Bakery, Fresh Food or FMCG.

- Proven experience managing category performance, supplier negotiations, and commercial delivery.

- Strong P&L management skills with the ability to drive sales and profitability simultaneously.

- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills, with experience delivering meaningful commercial outcomes.

- A passion for food and a strong understanding of evolving customer trends, particularly within world foods, convenience, and health-focused ranges.

- The ability to interpret complex data and translate insights into actionable commercial strategies.

- Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the confidence to engage and influence at all levels.

- A growth mindset and the ability to identify opportunities in fast-moving and highly competitive markets.

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.

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## Skills

### Required
- Trading
- Buying
- Category Management
- P&L management
- Supplier negotiations
- Commercial delivery
- Data analysis
- Stakeholder management

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