Space Planning Analyst

Best Buy; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Employee discount

Retirement resources

Well-being support

Leaves of absence & PTO benefits

Incentive pay plans

Benefits Guide

Job summary

Best Buy is seeking a Space Management Analyst to develop and execute merchandising solutions, creating and maintaining planograms using Space Planning, Blue Yonder, and VMM tools. You’ll influence cross-functional partners on guidelines, ensure store execution, and drive transition timelines across categories.

You’ll collaborate with teams to optimize space, analyze data integrity, and support efficiency in merchandising operations.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience with product merchandising in a retail environment.
• 2 years of experience in space management, category management, inventory planning, visual merchandising, or store design.
• Basic proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.

Responsibilities

• Create, monitor, and maintain all planograms for assigned business categories that support the business strategy while adhering to the enterprise merchandising guidelines (including ADA, Pricing, and Product Retention Standards).
• Help define transition scope and allocation of store merchandising team labor throughout the year to ensure the execution of products, graphics and displays.
• Drive the assortment transition process to enable effective merchandising of category resets, iconic launches, and product updates.
• Drive adherence to milestones to support visual merchandising, forecasting, replenishment, driving timely and accurate delivery of product and merchandising elements impacting retail locations.
• Facilitate SKU (product) handoff execution meetings with business partners.
• Provide timely and accurate planogram store counts, planogram version impacts, and details which drive accurate delivery of merchandising graphics and parts.
• Serve as the primary contact for retail store submitted planogram issues, research, and provide solutions.
• Utilize Data Integrity Reporting to manage the accuracy of planogram versions, store ties, and data.
• Actively engaged in the team’s performance management process including development and career planning.

Skills

Product merchandising

Space management

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience

Tools

Space Planning

Blue Yonder

Visual Merchandising Manager

Job description

As the Space Management Analyst, you'll collaborate with cross-functional partners in the development and execution of merchandising solutions that drive business results and position Best Buy as a market leader. You will be responsible for creating and maintaining both Space Planning, Blue Yonder and Visual Merchandising Manager (VMM) planograms that provide SKU placement, fixture detail and merchandising part information across multiple categories to facilitate accurate in-store execution. Planograms are a foundational merchandising tool providing merchandising flow, enable systematic inventory replenishment, vendor provided parts and product placement along with store specific fixture information, pricing sign types, and graphic details. You will become an expert in your category of business. You will influence and educate cross-functional partners on the enterprise merchandising guidelines, customer shopping path, and industry trends. You will leverage mock-up activities. You will help drive organizational efficiency by managing and communicating transition timelines and processes.

This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days at our corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota, and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

What you'll do

• Create, monitor, and maintain all planograms for assigned business categories that support the business strategy while adhering to the enterprise merchandising guidelines (including ADA, Pricing, and Product Retention Standards.
• Help define transition scope and allocation of store merchandising team labor throughout the year to ensure the execution of products, graphics and displays.
• Drive the assortment transition process to enable effective merchandising of category resets, iconic launches, and product updates.
• Drive adherence to milestones to support visual merchandising, forecasting, replenishment, driving timely and accurate delivery of product and merchandising elements impacting retail locations.
• Facilitate SKU (product) handoff execution meetings with business partners.
• Provide timely and accurate planogram store counts, planogram version impacts, and details which drive accurate delivery of merchandising graphics and parts.
• Serve as the primary contact for retail store submitted planogram issues, research, and provide solutions.
• Utilize Data Integrity Reporting to manage the accuracy of planogram versions, store ties, and data.
• Actively engaged in the team’s performance management process including development and career planning.

Basic qualifications

• 2 years of experience with product merchandising in a retail environment
• 2 years of experience in space management, category management, inventory planning, visual merchandising, or store design
• Basic proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite

Preferred qualifications

• Space Planning, Blue Yonder, Visual Merchandising Manager and/or other Space Management or Visual Merchandising software
• Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience with a working knowledge of Retail, Inventory, Merchandising, or Supply Chain
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite

What's in it for you

• Competitive pay
• Great employee discount
• Financial savings and retirement resources
• Support for your physical and mental well-being
• Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.
• Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.
• For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you'll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We're committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.

Position Type: Full time

Location/Region: Minneapolis, MN (55423)