Floor Space Analyst

Clicks Group Limited; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 550,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company based in Cape Town is seeking a professional to analyze macro space performance and optimize floor plans and merchandising. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of experience in retail merchandising, strong analytical skills, and a relevant degree. This position offers market-related compensation and contributes to improving in-store performance and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in retail or merchandising.
• Strong ability to analyze internal and external data.
• Technical aptitude for handling data and insights.

Responsibilities

• Optimize floor space and planograms to improve sales.
• Drive effective delivery of store layouts.
• Collaborate with teams to inform space decisions.
• Ensure Department, Fixtures, Sequence, and Allocation data are set up in FSA.
• Collaborate with Category, Channel Clustering, and Assortment teams on space decisions.
• Analyse SKU productivity on planograms and recommend space changes.
• Manage floor space inputs, tools, and guidelines to improve floor plans.

Skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Merchandising principles

Data analysis

Communication skills

Data management

Data mining

Vendor negotiations

Education

MIS or Business Degree

Bachelor's degree in Business or Marketing

Tools

Planogram software

BY (Blue Yonder)

Apollo

Spaceman

Job description

Job category: Other: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain

Location: Cape Town

Contract: Permanent

Remuneration: Market Related

EE position: Yes

About our company

Clicks Group

Introduction

To provide analysis and reviews on Macro Space performance using, Floor Space Allocation (FSA), highlights and available financial data to optimise, sequence and apportion floor space

• To drive the effective delivery of floor plan and fixture development at store level in support of strategic, category and format initiatives
• Utilization of multiple Floor Planning Data Points to perform what if scenario for the Category teams to optimise space performance at department level
• Ensure Department, Fixtures, Sequence, Fixture Allocation Group data is set up in FSA
• Consult with Category to inform space flex decisions & collaborate with Channel Clustering Analyst, Assortment Optimisation Analyst to review the FSA Allocation Details Report to build recommended range
• Manage all Floor Space inputs & tools to ensure delivery and improvement of rule sets and guidelines, to develop and maintain the best floor plans for our stores that meet the needs of our customers
• Continuously evaluate and optimize planograms for given categories to improve functionality, accurately reflect assortment decisions and are consistent with category strategy, visual merchandising standards and planogram optimization targets
• Develop clear and concise written directives guiding store design, store operations on efficient in-store implementation space changes and visual merchandising standards
• Provide support for store specific planogram and merchandising concerns
• Analyse SKU productivity on planograms for assigned categories and provide recommendations to improve sales and productivity of space
• Ensure effective people management and development

Job Knowledge:

• Knowledge of Category merchandising principles and processes.
• Knowledgeable in in-store layouts, merchandising processes and tools required.
• Experience working on multiple categories, using facts, to determine best assortment & merchandising flow that exceeds customer expectations.
• Aptitude to assess and analyse internal & external data points & insights, managing, facilitate & deliver focused opportunity targets and vendor negotiation opportunity.
• Analytically minded with strong logic and organizational skills.
• Technical aptitude – ability to pull, organize and prioritise data.
• The ability to turn data and/or insights into clearly articulated views for business socialisation.
• Background in business intelligence tools data mining techniques.

Job Related Skills:

• Background in business intelligence tools data mining techniques.
• Execution of new stores/products process using required commercial acumen.
• Experience working on multiple categories, using curated data, to determine best assortment that exceeds customer expectations.
• Understanding of customer shopping behavioural trends, competitive environment and market share.
• Aptitude to assess and analyse internal & external data points & extract key insights.
• Supporting the presentation of commercial opportunity targets in preparation for vendor negotiations.
• Highly analytically minded with strong logic and organisational skills.
• Technical aptitude – ability to pull, organise and prioritise complex data sets to improve the decision making process to optimise range.
• Previous experience in category would be advantageous.

Job Experience:

• 3-5 years of transferable retail experience within Store Merchandising, Store Planning or Facilities Planning required.
• 5 years’ experience in merchandising, space planning, store planning, or related role.

Education:

• MIS or Business Degree or equivalent experience required.
• Bachelor\'s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and retail operations experience;

Technical Skills:

• Previous CPG/food & beverage experience preferred;
• Planogram software experience (i.e. JDA/BY/Apollo/Spaceman/etc.) preferred;

Job Related Competencies:

• Deciding and Initiating Action
• Leading and Supervising
• Persuading and Influencing
• Presenting and Communicating Information
• Analysing
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts
• Planning and Organising
• Delivering Results & Meeting Customer Expectations
• Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking

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