Retail Space Planning Lead

Req ID: 452101 

 

BASIC PURPOSE: The Retail Space Planner Lead is responsible for overseeing that planograms accurately reflect assortment decisions and are consistent with category strategy, visual merchandising standards and planogram optimization targets. Works closely with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain planograms. This position is responsible for ensuring the team is creating planograms that meet high quality standards, are localized to each facility, and able to be executed without issues to the field.  This role will create processes and procedures to analyze planograms for sales, profitability, inventory productivity, and make recommendations to optimize the planograms bearing in mind trade-offs for customer experience, facility labor efficiencies, merchandise strategy and visual considerations. This role will present, discuss alternatives, and make final planogram recommendations to the Space Planning and Merchandising teams.  

 

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Oversee the creation facility specific planograms that can be executed in the field.
• Lead space planning team and ensure all processes and procedures are being followed.
• Oversee the creating and maintaining of fixtures and equipment.
• Manage project timelines to ensure space planning deliverables are met and provide key insights for business customers.
• Create development strategies for space planning analytics to produce actionable insights for merchants that drive space productivity growth.
• Ensure the team is capturing and maintaining images and dimension data for all merchandising products.
• Consults on development needs as it relates to Love’s software process enhancements.
• Guide in implementation, development, and on-going business process support of Facility, Floor and Assortment planning initiatives.
• Builds and maintains collaborative partnerships with internal and external teams across the Love’s organization to gain credibility and earn trust of key business partners.
• Troubleshoot issues as they arise and resolve problems that affect space management applications.
• Manage team members development through training, feedback, and the implementation of developmental plans.
• Other duties assigned as needed.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Education:
  • College Degree in Business Related Major Preferred and/or 6 or more Years Equivalent Work Experience
• Experience:
  • In depth knowledge of space planning practices
  • Experience working in the retail industry
  • SQL / Tableau Experience Preferred
  • Experience managing direct reports is preferred
  • Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite
  • Experience managing the design and implementation of strategic projects
  • Proven experience with troubleshooting principles, methodologies, and issue resolution techniques
  • Able to develop and interpret technical documentation for training and end user procedures
  • Knowledge of industry trends in technology and determine “Best Practices”
  • Performs work with a high degree of latitude
  • Handles the most complex issues and problems
  • Possesses expert knowledge of subject matter
  • Provides leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group
  • May act as a lead or first-level supervisor

 

SKILLS AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Skills:
  • Excellent Written, oral, and Interpersonal Skills.
  • Highly Self Motivated and Directed.
  • Strong Analytical and Problem-Solving Abilities.
  • Strong Customer Service Orientation
  • Experience Working in a Team-Oriented, Collaborative Environment.