Micro Space Planning Manager

Currys; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts at Currys stores

Life Assurance and Sharesave scheme

Wellbeing initiatives including cycle2

Aviva Digital GP app

Job summary

Currys in London is seeking a Micro Space Planning Manager to lead space planning and visual merchandising across the store estate. Based in the London Campus at Waterloo with hybrid working, you will drive planograms that are commercially sound and customer-focused.

You will lead a small team, coordinate fast-paced changes, and partner with commercial and store teams to deliver consistent store experiences.

Qualifications

• Proven planogram expertise using BY or similar; VM experience in large multi-site retail.
• Understanding of end-to-end range changes and product lifecycle.
• Experience leading micro space and VM teams in a busy rollout environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the micro space planning and VM team; manage workload according to commercial priorities and ensure on-time delivery.
• Ensure range reviews are adhered to across stores with accountable delivery of commercial growth.
• Develop and improve merchandising solutions across categories with practical, executable planograms and VM packs.
• Spend time in stores to test and profile planogram changes before full rollout; verify fixtures and plans in real conditions.
• Support change and development projects requiring planogram and VM input; act as the workstream lead.
• Support the Blue Yonder space planning project to inform decisions with in-store realities.
• Define and maintain merchandising standards across categories; communicate and execute estate-wide.
• Ensure range events are delivered on time, aligned with category strategies and shopper experience.
• Manage and coach a team of micro space planners and visual merchandisers with SMART objectives.

Skills

Planogram

VM expertise

Retail experience

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

Blue Yonder

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.

Every voice has a space at our table and we're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email [e-mail] and we'll do our best to help.