Micro Space Planning Manager

Currys Plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts at Currys stores

Life Assurance and Sharesave

Wellbeing initiatives incl. cycle to/

Aviva Digital GP app

Job summary

Currys plc is seeking a Micro Space Planning Manager in London Hybrid, based at the Waterloo campus. You will lead the micro space planning and VM team, align planograms with commercial priorities, and ensure on-time delivery across the estate.

You will test planograms in-store, support change projects, and contribute to space planning initiatives with Blue Yonder. The role offers a collaborative retail environment and opportunities to shape merchandising standards.

Qualifications

• Proven planogram expertise using BY or equivalent in a large multi-site retail environment.
• Understanding of end-to-end range change processes and product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the micro space planning and VM team, allocating work to priorities and delivering on time.
• Ensure range reviews across stores with clear accountability for growth through planograms and VM packs.
• Develop and improve merchandising solutions across categories for practical, executable displays.
• Spend time in stores testing planogram changes before full rollout.
• Support change and development projects with VM input and deliverables.
• Provide VM expertise to the Blue Yonder space planning project.
• Define and maintain merchandising standards across the estate.
• Deliver range events on time while improving shopper experience and fixture efficiency.
• Manage and coach a team with SMART objectives and PDPs.

Skills

Planogram expertise

VM team leadership

Stakeholder management

Store testing in-store

Tools

Blue Yonder space planning

Job description

Role overview:

Micro Space Planning Manager
London Hybrid
Currys London Campus at Waterloo
Permanent
Full Time
Grade 4

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As one of the best-known retailers of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of caring and committed colleagues. Join us and you’ll work in a great team where you can be yourself and bring your personality. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

You’ll sit within the Stores Transformation and Property function, reporting to the Micro Space planning manager. We connect the commercial agenda to the physical store — making sure planograms are executable, commercially sound and support the customer shopping experience at the shelf edge as well as being consistently delivered across the estate. We're a practical team that tests ideas in stores before rolling them out and takes real pride in the quality and consistency of what colleagues and customers experience.

Role overview:

As part of this role, you’ll be responsible for:

• Leading and coordinating the micro space planning and VM team — allocating work in line with commercial priorities, managing capacity and making sure planogram and VM activity is delivered on time and right first time.
• Making sure range reviews are adhered to across all stores, with clear accountability for delivery of commercial growth through Customer centric and operationally efficient planograms and VM packs.
• Developing and improving merchandising solutions across categories — creating display, fixture and planogram approaches that are practical and executable in a busy retail environment, not just visually effective in isolation.
• Spending regular time in stores to test and profile planogram changes before full rollout, making sure fixtures and planograms work in reality before they reach the wider estate.
• Supporting change and development projects that require planogram and VM input, acting as the micro space planning workstream lead and making sure the visual merchandising dimension is properly scoped and delivered.
• Supporting the Blue Yonder space planning project, providing VM expertise to make sure space planning decisions are informed by how planograms actually works in store.
• Defining and maintaining Merchandising standards for the categories in scope, making sure they're clearly documented, communicated to store teams and consistently executed across the estate.
• Ensure that all range events are delivered on time and meet the category strategies outlined whilst delivering improved shopping experience for customers and more operationally efficient fixtures for store colleagues
• Managing and coaching a team of micro space planners and visual merchandisers ensuring that each person has SMART objectives and PDP that are relevant to themselves as well as generically across merchandising

You will need:

• Proven Planogram expertise using BY and or relevant equivalent alongside expertise in VM developed in a large, multi-site retail environment — with a track record of delivering solutions that work at scale.
• A thorough understanding of the end-to-end range change processes and full product lifecycle and how commercial decisions land in the physical store environment.
• Experience leading and developing a micro space and VM team, managing workload allocation and keeping quality high across a busy pipeline of concurrent projects.
• A store and Customer -first instinct — regularly present on the shop floor and using what you see to inform and improve planograms and VM plans before they're executed across the estate.
• Confidence managing planogram and VM workstreams within broader change and development projects, with clear milestones and delivery accountability..
• Good influencing skills cross functionally to ensure planograms align with the commercial strategy as well as deliver the best customer experience and are operationally efficient
• Good understanding of master data and insight used for end-to-end space range and merchandising
• Experience in managing a small to medium size team and able to support the teams development needs

We know our people are the secret to our success. That's why we're always looking for ways to reward great work. You'll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including:

• Discounts at our Currys stores and on our partner networks
• Life Assurance and Sharesave scheme
• Access to a variety of Wellbeing initiatives including cycle to work and eyecare
• Access to the Aviva Digital GP app, where you can access a GP 24/7

Why join us:

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.