Are you available immediately? A global Entertainment business needs a Retail Planning Manager to join their Home Entertainment Division for a short term contract to cover a period of illness. (circa 1 month) Reporting in to the Senior Controller - Retail Planning & Insight the primary purpose of your role will be to work with internal teams (marketing, sales, insight ) to drive the development and implementation of winning customer specific plans and tactics that will deliver against agreed customer goals. You will be tasked with Identifying opportunities that will deliver sustainable profitable growth for them within agreed customer base and in line with financial targets. You will also be responsible for the provision of timely, accurate and actionable reporting by retailer to ensure that the studio maximises its opportunity to meet revenue targets. You will be required to provide marketing and sales teams with relevant insight and direction to ensure that the business maximises the opportunities through the pitch process. Acting as the Customer expert by fully understanding key consumer, shopper trends, Customer strategy and market dynamics and using these to develop insight to help build strong relationships with key Customer personnel and influence the “team” sell agenda and retailer business plan to further advance the businesses profitability. They are looking for a University educated (or equivalent) Planning Manager with solid customer-facing or customer roles in Retail Planning, Category Management, or similar. Someone who is highly analytical, has a strong ability to turn numbers, quantitative and qualitative research into trends, insight for business decision-making and recommendations. Project management experience will be viewed as a distinct advantage To apply please send your CV through this site or call Faye Stockley on 020 7866 5439 Keywords: Retail, Analysis, Planning, Market, Account, Research, Sale, Strategic