Space Analytics Manager | rebel - Hybrid

Rebel; City of Canada Bay; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts across Super Retail Group

Hybrid work model

Job summary

rebel is seeking a commercially minded Space Analytics Manager to build and lead our space analytics capability from the ground up, shaping how we optimize store layouts, assortment, and productivity across our store network. You will turn data into commercial insights, develop scalable analytics frameworks, and partner with Merchandising, Retail Operations, Store Design, and other teams to drive growth.

This role offers hybrid work with a Rhode's office - mix collaborative in office time with

Qualifications

• Experience in space planning, space analytics or retail analytics.
• Strong analytical capabilities to translate data into insights.
• Proven ability to build new capabilities and programs from scratch.
• Excellent stakeholder management with senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Build rebel's space analytics capability from the ground up with governance and reporting.
• Turn data into commercial action to maximise sales, profit and productivity.
• Develop innovative space planning methodologies and scalable ways of working.
• Influence store layouts, assortment strategies and new store development.
• Lead cross-functional decision making through insight and storytelling.

Skills

Space analytics

Space planning

Retail analytics

Analytical storytelling

Stakeholder management

Commercial acumen

Job description

At rebel, we're passionate about helping Australians chase their sporting goals and live active lifestyles. As we continue to evolve and grow, we're investing in a brand-new capability that will transform how we think about store space, ranging and productivity.

We're searching for a commercially minded Space Analytics Manager to establish and lead our space analytics capability from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity to create frameworks, influence strategic decision-making, and drive meaningful business outcomes across one of Australia's leading retail brands.

If you're someone who thrives on turning complex data into commercial opportunities and loves building something from scratch, this is your chance to build a lasting mark on the future of rebel.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build rebel's space analytics capability from the ground up, creating the frameworks, governance and reporting that will drive future space and ranging decisions across the business.
• Turn data into commercial action, analysing space, range and option productivity to identify opportunities that maximise sales, profit and productivity across our store network.
• Develop innovative space planning methodologies, introducing industry best practice, new analytics approaches and scalable ways of working that support long-term growth.
• Influence the future of rebel stores, partnering with Merchandise, Retail Operations, Visual Merchandising and Store Design teams to optimise layouts, assortment strategies and new store development.
• Lead business-wide decision making through insight, translating complex data into compelling recommendations that shape category performance, store productivity and strategic investments.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience within space planning, space analytics, category analytics or a comparable retail analytics discipline, with a strong understanding of store productivity drivers.
• Exceptional analytical capability, with the ability to interpret large and complex datasets and uncover actionable commercial insights.
• A builder's mindset, with demonstrated success creating new capabilities, frameworks or transformation programs from inception through to maturity.
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to balance customer outcomes, category strategy, inventory investment and profitability.
• Influential stakeholder management skills, capable of engaging senior leaders and driving alignment across multiple functions through data-led storytelling.

Why This Role & Why rebel?

• Create something truly new. This is a rare opportunity to establish a capability from the ground up and become the recognised subject matter expert shaping how rebel approaches space productivity.
• Drive enterprise-wide impact. Your insights will influence key decisions across Merchandise, Planning, Retail Operations, Supply Chain, Store Design and Visual Merchandising.
• See your recommendations come to life. From category reviews and assortment decisions to new store layouts, you'll directly influence how our stores evolve and perform.
• Gain access to generous discounts across all our Super Retail Group brands; rebel, Supercheap Auto, Macpac and BCF
• Work with genuine flexibility with our Hybrid model working based out of our Rhode's office - mix collaborative in office time with focus at home.