Associate Retail Floor Planner

Req ID: 427174 

 

BASIC PURPOSE: Works closely with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain floorplans. The Associate Retail Floor Planner will ensure all macro space planning assortment decisions are consistent with category strategies at a facility-specific level. This includes creating floor plans for all new facilities/remodels, resets, all aspects of unique facility prototypes, facility test formats, and macro space performance. This role will analyze floorplans for sales, profitability, and adjacencies to make recommendations to optimize the floorplans bearing in mind trade-offs for customer experience, facility labor efficiencies, merchandise strategy and visual considerations. This position is responsible for ensuring floorplans meet high quality standards, are localized to each facility, and able to be executed without issues to the field. 

 

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design facility specific floorplans that can be executed in the field.
• Assist in analyzing floor productivity within each floorplan to make data driven decisions on macro assortment to improve sales and productivity.
• Become familiar with Love’s software systems and processes to be able to diagnose issues and train both internal and field team members.
• Convert AutoCAD Files to the proper format for the floor planning software to ingest.
• Builds an understanding of cross-functional teams across the Love’s organization internally and externally.
• Other duties assigned as needed.

 

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Education:
  • College Degree in Business Related Major Preferred
• Experience:
  • Previous Floorplan software application experience preferred
  • Experience working in the retail industry
  • SQL / Tableau Experience Preferred
  • AutoCAD Experience Preferred
  • Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite
  • Proven experience with troubleshooting principles, methodologies, and issue resolution techniques
  • Able to develop and interpret technical documentation for training and end user procedures
  • Performs work under direct supervision
  • Handles basic issues and problems and refers more complex issues to higher-level staff
  • Possesses beginning to working knowledge of subject matter

 

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. 
• Typical Physical Demands:
  • Requires prolonged sitting, some bending and stooping.
  • Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds.
  • Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator.
  • Requires normal range of hearing and vision.

 

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Job Function(s): Corporate 

 

Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores is the industry-leading travel stop network in the United States. For more than 55 years, we’ve provided customers with highway hospitality and “Clean Places, Friendly Faces.” We’re passionate about serving drivers with clean, modern facilities stocked with fuel, food and supplies. We offer meals from popular restaurant chains, trucking supplies, showers and everything needed to get back on the road quickly. The Love’s Family of Companies includes:

• Gemini Motor Transport, one of the industry’s safest trucking fleets
• Speedco, the light mechanical and trucking service specialists
• Musket, a rapidly growing, Houston-based commodities supplier and trader
• Trillium, a Houston-based alternative fuels expert