Merchandise Planning, Senior/Executive
DFI Retail Group
Description
Role Summary
The Space Planning Executive supports the execution of efficient planograms to drive sales and improve space productivity across store clusters. This role ensures planograms are accurate, timely, and aligned with merchandising principles and category strategies. Key responsibilities include maintaining planogram updates, supporting range and space reviews, analysing sales and space performance, and coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless rollout and execution.
The Role
Ensure planograms are always up to date
Ensure timely planogram roll out and modules update
Set Critical Path for Team Members on various projects
Gather and share insights to support opportunities for space planning improvements
Review sales analysis and space performance of categories to create efficiently optimised planograms to maximise sales and profit
Ensure consistency of product range across all store’s clusters
Ensure Assortment IDs are tagged to the correct site as to avoid store replenishment and scanning issues at checkout.
Adhere to the general Merchandising Principles and guidelines (Sub-Category Flow, Good Better Best, Own Brand, Customer Decision Tree, Alignment of Need States, Product Status, Days Of Supply, Case On Shelf)
Manage the annual Space, Range, Display (SRD) process, reporting accurately on the efficiency of all in store space and building the annual plans to reflect latest performance, consumer needs and category growth plans
Provide regular updates on SRD team member performance
Ensure all stakeholders are involved in the SRD process and aware of the key timelines
Maintain accurate and up to date customer decision trees for responsible categories ensuring that they are updated regularly
Manage the overall range review process in line with the category teams ensuring that all range reviews are signed off in a robust manner and all planograms are built and signed off
About You
Degree holder with minimum 1 year experience in the retail industry
Prior experience in supermarket grocery or space management is advantageous
Able to work well across multiple internal stakeholders, strong communication skills
Proficient in MS Office, especially MS Excel
Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders and able to work in a fast-paced environment