Senior Analyst, Modular and Space Execution

Walmart; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail organization in Mississauga is seeking a Senior Analyst for Modular and Space Execution, responsible for optimizing category floor plans to drive sales. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and communication skills, proficiency in Microsoft Excel, and relevant experience. This role involves collaboration with various stakeholders and requires a solution-oriented mindset.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or 3-5 years of relevant experience.
• Strong analytical and communication skills are essential.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel is required.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and optimize category floor plans and planograms.
• Build strong collaborative relationships with merchandise senior directors.
• Provide insights during the end-to-end execution process.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Prioritization

Microsoft Excel proficiency

Experience with JDA/Blue Yonder

Experience with Tableau

Education

Bachelor's Degree

3-5 years of relevant experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Tableau

Job description

Overview

Position Summary: The Senior Analyst, Modular and Space Execution is responsible for analyzing, optimizing, building, reporting, and assigning strategies that drive sales through effective category floor plans and planograms. This role collaborates with various stakeholders to ensure timely and high-quality execution of modular and space processes.

Responsibilities

The Senior Analyst, Modular and Space Execution supports Modular Relay Schedules, Format Development, or project-related planograms and category floor plan refreshes when required. Building strong collaborative relationships with merchandise senior directors and category managers, the position identifies space optimization opportunities that ensure stores receive the optimal assortment and space configuration for profitable sales and efficient operations. The role includes supporting project meetings to share process timelines, space excellence metrics, and addressing risks or obstacles in the creation and modification of planograms and category floor plans.

The position maintains an accurate planogram and category floor plan database, including item dimensions, fixture types, item locations, and capacities. The Senior Analyst provides insights, standards, measures, and expectations throughout the end-to-end process to ensure successful execution. Timely corrections of floor plan and planogram drawings are completed to comply with standards. The role also involves quality control services, document management, and managing change requests.

Communicating and producing outputs that reflect strong business acumen, the Senior Analyst manages multiple priorities and translates data insights into actionable strategies. The role collaborates with stores to resolve inquiries professionally and efficiently. The position also supports strategic initiatives by analyzing and modifying category and modular space, liaising with core space planners or third-party vendors as necessary.

The Senior Analyst stays informed on market, category, brand, and consumer trends to provide valuable insights during planogram and floor plan processes. Actively engaging in process improvement, the position identifies and implements enhancements to space excellence efficiency, quality, and cross-functional ways of working. The role also involves developing reports, dashboards, and providing analytical insights to improve results, as well as sharing expert knowledge on space excellence tools and methods with fellow planners and business partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or 3-5 years of relevant experience
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Ability to prioritize and work in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Experience with JDA/Blue Yonder, Traits Administration and Tableau is an asset

Leadership Expectations

• Respect the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; supports workplaces where associates feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging, so all associates thrive and perform; contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.
• Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; and recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively to achieve objectives; communicates with impact and listens attentively to a range of audiences; and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.
• Acts with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).
• Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and encourages others to do the same; supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns; reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action; acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
• Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
• Serve our Customers: Delivers results while putting the customer first and applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.
• Adopts a broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.
• Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions; supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
• Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.

Minimum Qualifications: Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications. Age – 16 or older.

Preferred Qualifications: Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Location

Primary Location: 1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada

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