Space & Display Planner

Marks and Spencer; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in the United Kingdom is looking for a project manager to build category planograms and ensure accurate store layouts. Candidates should have strong project management skills, analytical thinking, and proficiency in Microsoft Excel. The company offers a range of benefits including discounts, a pension scheme, and wellbeing support. Join this inclusive team and contribute to transforming retail.

Benefits

20% employee discount

Competitive holiday entitlement

Discretionary bonus schemes

Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

24/7 Virtual GP access

Charity volunteer day

Qualifications

• Experience in project management in a retail environment.
• Strong analytical skills to gather and react to feedback in real-time.

Responsibilities

• Build category planograms on time for store openings.
• Create accurate floor plans for stores in line with business strategy.
• Visit stores to ensure layout and gather feedback.

Skills

Excellent project management

Attention to detail

Proactive and solution driven

Good analytical skills

Microsoft Excel proficiency

Knowledge of Space, Range, Display, NPD, Supply Chain

Tools

Microsoft Suite

Blueyonder space planning software

Job description

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Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…

• After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

Key Accountabilities

Your key accountabilities will include

• Build category planograms, ensuring that they are built in good time to align with store openings and renewals across all category groups
• Build accurate floor plans for the stores to the agreed critical path and in line with business strategy
• Visit the New and Renewal stores across the country ensuring we land right first time as well as gathering and reacting to feedback in real time
• Provide display and space related management information to relevant stakeholders
• Accountable for running appropriate system checks to ensure right first-time floorplans and planograms
• Execute the business Trade Planning strategy through optimising out of aisle space across every store

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Excellent project management with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy
• Proactivity and solution driven
• Good analytical skill
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Suite including Microsoft Excel
• Knowledge of the Space, Range, Display, NPD, Supply Chain and Procurement processes and critical paths
• Blueyonder space planning software experience preferred but full training provided

Everyone’s welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.