Trading Planning Lead
Sony Interactive Entertainment
United Kingdom, London · GBR-London-10GMS · 8+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 28, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- United Kingdom, London · GBR-London-10GMS
About the role
- The Trading Planning Lead builds the integrated trading plan for the PlayStation Store, a global digital commerce platform. This individual-contributor role translates commercial priorities, title roadmaps, and promotions into a coherent, executable roadmap with defined outcomes and dependencies.
Responsibilities
- Build the integrated 360 trading plan
- Convert commercial strategy, title roadmaps, promotions, pricing actions, lifecycle activity, and major events into an outcome-focused weekly, monthly, and quarterly Store plan
- Coordinate all planning inputs and materials for weekly, monthly, and quarterly reviews
- Maintain decisions, actions, owners, and due dates while tracking follow-through and escalating blockers
- Keep the central planning sheet, master calendar, and priority sheets updated
- Partner with Trading Performance, Insights & Analytics, and Finance to surface performance drivers, risks, and trends
- Identify collisions across launches, promotions, and events to present recommendations to Store leaders
- Align cross-functional teams including Trading, Catalogue Planning, Merchandising, Pricing, LTV, Monetisation, Marketing, and Store Build
- Improve intake, SLAs, automation, and governance to reduce rework and increase speed
Requirements
- Minimum of 8+ years of experience in trading, commercial planning, programme management, ecommerce, or business operations
- Practical experience building integrated plans and running weekly, monthly, and quarterly trading or commercial planning cycles
- Strong commercial and analytical capability using revenue, conversion, engagement, margin, and customer KPIs
- Excellent programme-management discipline including management of milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and action logs
- Proven cross-functional leadership and ability to influence stakeholders across global and local teams
- Clear written, verbal, and visual communication skills
- Resilient, adaptable, and outcome-focused mindset with strong ownership and attention to detail
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in digital commerce, games, media, marketplaces, or high-volume content/subscription environments
- Working knowledge of promotions, pricing, merchandising, catalogue planning, and content lifecycle activity
- Experience partnering with Finance on forecasting, budgeting, and performance-to-plan reviews
- Hands-on experience with experimentation, post-mortems, and data-led decision-making
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus opportunity
- Private Medical Insurance
- Dental Scheme
- 25 days holiday per year
- On Site Gym
- Subsidised Café
- Free soft drinks
- On site bar
- Access to cycle garage and showers
Workplace
- Hybrid working
