Retail Space Planning Strategist

DICK'S Sporting Goods; United States; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

DICK'S Sporting Goods is seeking an Analyst - Floor Planning to maintain space productivity, analyze store performance, and provide fact-based recommendations for region-specific space reallocations. You will build seasonal overview floorplans, create heat maps, forecast models, and collaborate with space planning, retail design, and category teams to optimize adjacencies and drive sales.

This role requires strong analytical skills, proficiency in Autocad and JDA Intactix Suite, and experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Marketing, Merchandising or Operations.
• 3-5 years of total experience.
• Experience in retail space planning or store design preferred.
• Experience in retail merchandising, store management, buying or inventory management is a plus.
• Experience utilizing JDA Intactix Suite -Space, Floor, IKB.
• Experience with Autocad.
• Experience using a business intelligence platform.
• Proficient in MS Excel; some VBA skills preferred.
• In depth knowledge of Space and Layout practices.
• Strong Analytical skills.
• Strong communication both verbal and written.
• Strong Negotiation and Influence skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop store-specific seasonal/quarterly overview floorplans in support of the company financial plans.
• Create ad-hoc analysis to react to current and future business trends and adjust overview plans as needed to optimize space productivity.
• Coordinate with space and floor planning teams to ensure that merchandise and space plans are complete and accurate for new stores, remodels, and prototypes.
• Create forecast model Heat Maps and provide space recommendations for potential new stores and remodels.
• Analyze performance metrics to ensure we are driving sales and improving store productivity while creating store specific DNA profiles.
• Must be able to identify and surface business risks and opportunities at a store, district and regional level, providing sound recommendations to proactively manage.
• Influence business partners by presenting sound analysis and impacts to the overall business.
• Support the Manager of Space Planning with ad hoc projects.
• Proficient in delivering accurate analysis, that is both actionable and presentable to all levels of management.
• Complete each overview floorplan draw cycle in support of company business strategies, desired adjacencies and ideal space for each store within a specific region.
• Understand the impact of space moves on brand shops and graphics through partnership with Retail Integration and In Store design teams.
• Review accuracy and productivity of overview plans prior to publication to ensure all plans are accurate and executable at store level in the most efficient manner.
• Collaborate with Category floor planners to provide fact-based recommendations on space reallocation to resolve conflicting requests between departments within each store, while maintaining key seasonal strike points, category visual presentation and preferred adjacencies.
• Monitor store feedback mailbox and conduct root cause analysis on feedback to proactively reduce the quantity and type of questions and drive productivity improvements.
• Be the subject matter expert on all systems and processes used within Space Management and share experiential knowledge with the members of the team.
• Participate in special projects, key initiatives, and system updates as requested by Manager of Space Management.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Space planning

Retail analytics

Verbal & written communication

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Marketing, Merchandising or Operations

Tools

Autocad

JDA Intactix Suite - Space/Floor/IKB

Business Intelligence

MS Excel

VBA

Job description

DICK'S Sporting Goods is seeking an Analyst - Floor Planning to maintain space productivity, analyze store performance, and provide fact-based recommendations for region-specific space reallocations. You will build seasonal overview floorplans, create heat maps, forecast models, and collaborate with space planning, retail design, and category teams to optimize adjacencies and drive sales.

This role requires strong analytical skills, proficiency in Autocad and JDA Intactix Suite, and experience