Retail Space Planning Manager, based Waltham Abbey (hybrid). Salary from £45k+ p.a. + many benefits.
Are you an experienced retailer who knows how to plan the layout in a store to optimize the space and drive revenue opportunities? If you've seen successful growth and want a new challenge in an award-winning company that's growing, read on!
(This role in other businesses could also be known as 'space planner', 'retail space planner', 'store layout manager')
The Benefits
In return for your skills and experience as a Space Planning Manager, we offer you the following:
- Competitive salary from £45k p.a. + (depending on experience)
- Company bonus scheme of 20% of salary based on achieving objectives
- Generous 20% colleague discount on products and additional services (e.g. dog grooming, community pet clinic)
- Employee Reward Scheme (discounts and cash back on hundreds of retailers and service providers)
- Employee Assistance Programme (discounts and cash back on various medical & mental health services)
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Further benefits on completion of probationary period:
- Critical Illness & Life Assurance schemes
- Private Medical Insurance
- Company pension scheme
The Role - Retail Space Planning Manager
This is a new role to Jollyes - The Pet People within our Commercial team. As our Space Planning Manager, you would be responsible for the development and implementation of the Retail stores layout, ensuring that these are consistent with the broader business brand. A subject matter expert, influencing the commercial teams to deliver relevant EBITDA targets and working with our property team on new stores fixtures, layouts and implementation.
A full job description is available on request, but to summarise your key responsibilities:
- Develop the Space strategy with accountability for all space allocation, creating opportunities to drive category and store performance in like for like sales and margin
- Own store layouts from seasonal changes to 'business as usual' retail trading; taking projects from ideation to in store implementation
- Planogram production in order to optimise the return from shelf space
- Provide insights and analysis to the Commercial team
- Complete regular reviews with the Regional Retail teams to identify further opportunities and ensure consistency of execution
- Work with Retail and Commercial teams to ensure an activity calendar of implementation and ensure stakeholder sign off at each stage
- Work with the Supply Chain team on managing optimal stock level
- Influencing the Retail teams and ensure consistent delivery and execution across the estate, ensuring they understand the 'why' and are on board with why space planning matters.
The Skills - Retail Space Planning Manager
To be successful in this role, you'll need the following skills, experience and qualities:
- Proficiency in the use of Excel to analyse key data and forecasts
- Effective influencing skills, able to use the data and work with other teams (e.g. Retail / support functions) to convey your key messages.
- Excellent organisational and communication skills.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills with the ability to interpret customer behaviour insights
- Commercial awareness of the retail business with a good understanding of the Space / Merchandising critical path, process flows and activities
- Knowledge of merchandising operations processes
- Space planning software experience i.e. JDA Space planning, Relex Space Planning or equivalent
- Share our values of being: Wise, Focused, Genuine, Eager, Together
About Jollyes - The Pet People
Since initially making paw prints in 1971, Jollyes has become one of the largest pet superstore chains across the United Kingdom & Northern Ireland. From a community-led in-store experience to an ever-flourishing online presence, there's over 50 years of experience and over 100 stores between our paws.
It's not just products we offer; our customers enjoy affordable grooming thanks to The Jolly Groomer and veterinary services at our Community Pet Clinics.
Our recent recognition at the Pet Industry Federation (PIF) Awards is a real testament to our dedication to pet parents, and we're very proud of being named 'Pet Retail Chain of the Year 2023' and also delighted to win the Retail Week award for Best Retailer (under £250m t/o) in 2024. We're proud of our 4.8 star rating on Trust Pilot which reflects our colleagues' passion to give our pets and their parents fantastic service. We're equally proud of our 4* rating on Glass Door, the employer review site which reflects our colleagues' opinions that we're a good place to work! We've also been listed in the 'Sunday Times Great Places to Work' which we're thrilled about!
To Apply:
If you're looking for a career with a company who will truly value you and recognize your contribution with some fantastic rewards and benefits, where you can really make a difference, click to apply today!