Space Planning Analyst

Merchandising Specialist

Under general direction of Manager of Space Management or Space Planning Supervisor, works as a cross functional team member providing merchandising insight to the procurement team to plan and implement products with a speed to shelf emphasis. Responsible for developing and maintaining accurate planograms across assigned product categories for company stores, using space planning and database software. This position will ensure sales, margin performance and labor efficiencies of planograms are optimized through knowledge of product assortment, merchandising and most effective visual display standards potentially impacting hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Creates and manages planograms at the store level for all product categories using space planning software according to merchandising and planogram standards.
• Analyzes performance metrics, such as days of supply, margins, and sales to provide recommendations that identify potential opportunities to improve productivity of space to the buying department.
• Coordinates and implements roll out of new planograms, resets, remodels and new store openings with store management, suppliers and distributors.
• Maintains a comprehensive database of store planograms.
• Accurately captures product attributes and merchandising information (e.g., product dimensions, description, size, etc.)
• Liaises with buyers, floor planners, store managers, suppliers and distributors as necessary to develop accurate planograms that optimize sales and margin performance.
• Communicates planogram changes to the floor plan team.
• Provides support for all space management activities (e.g., category resets, new store merchandising, special projects, etc.)
• Creates communication documents for Store merchandising execution
• Works with Assortment Analysts for assigned categories on a review basis
• Performs other duties as assigned or needed

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