Trading Planning Lead (Digital Commerce)

Location: United Kingdom, London; hybrid working.

Company

hirify.global is the consumer entertainment and digital commerce brand of Sony Interactive Entertainment, delivering hardware, network services, and digital content to more than 100 million people.

What you will do

• Build an integrated weekly, monthly, and quarterly trading plan covering launches, promotions, pricing, catalogue, lifecycle activity, and major events.
• Run the trading planning rhythm, coordinating review materials, decisions, actions, owners, due dates, and blocker escalation.
• Maintain central planning sheets, master calendars, priority lists, and dependency tracking as the source of truth for Store execution.
• Partner with Trading Performance, Insights & Analytics, and Finance to connect performance drivers, risks, trends, forecasts, and post-mortem learning to future plans.
• Identify conflicts and trade-offs across launches, promotions, events, and customer journeys, presenting recommendations to Store leaders.
• Coordinate Trading, Catalogue Planning, Merchandising, Pricing, LTV, Monetisation, Marketing, Store Build, and regional teams while improving intake, SLAs, automation, and governance.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in trading, commercial planning, programme management, ecommerce, or business operations in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment.
• Practical experience building integrated plans and running weekly, monthly, and quarterly trading or commercial planning cycles.
• Strong commercial and analytical skills using revenue, conversion, engagement, margin, and customer KPIs to prioritise work and recommend action.
• Excellent programme-management discipline covering milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, action logs, and planning tools.
• Experience influencing stakeholders across global and local teams without relying on formal authority, with clear written, verbal, and visual communication.
• Resilient, adaptable, outcome-focused approach with strong ownership, attention to detail, and sound judgement under pressure.

Nice to have

• Experience in digital commerce, games, media, marketplaces, or high-volume content or subscription environments.
• Working knowledge of promotions, pricing, merchandising, catalogue planning, and content lifecycle activity.
• Experience with Finance partnership on forecasting, budgeting, and performance-to-plan reviews.
• Hands-on experience with experimentation, post-mortems, and data-led decision-making in a trading environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangement.
• Discretionary bonus opportunity.
• Private medical insurance and dental scheme.
• 25 days of holiday per year.
• On-site gym, subsidised café, free soft drinks, and on-site bar.
• Access to a cycle garage and showers.

Hiring process

• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for all new employees and may include criminal background checks for some roles.