Space Planner

Job Description :

Reporting to the Manager, Space Planning & Analytics, the Space Planner works closely with the Sr. Space Planner to design, build and maintain merchandise planograms (POGs). The Space Planner is responsible for ensuring that POGs accurately reflect assortment decisions and are consistent with category strategy, visual merchandising standards and planogram optimization targets.

Position Responsibilities :

• Design and build quality planograms in JDA that optimize space productivity and planogram performance, meet specified merchandising strategy, visual merchandising standards and best practices and satisfy merchandising safety standards
• Capture bays as set in the Innovation Center, conduct space diagnostics and analyze planograms based on sales, profitability and inventory productivity.
• Analyze planograms and make recommendations to optimize planograms, improve functionality (customer experience as well as store operations) and financial performance.
• Review planograms and discuss planogram metrics, and trade-offs or deviations from initial specifications with Space Planning and Merchandising Management teams.
• Translate assortments and strategies into store specific planograms based on actual store bay count, bay dimensions, steel / fixtures and store environment
• Prepare assemblies for steel / fixture orders, where applicable
• Ensure the accuracy of planograms conducting quality checks against assortment listings and store data
• Address deficiencies that arise from pre-walks or execution, in a timely manner and in accordance with defined SLA
• Participate in special projects to contribute to the continuous improvement of the team

Knowledge / Experience Required :