Micro / Macro Space Planner

Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

Retail Group

Job Description:

As bp transitions to an integrated energy company, we must adapt to a changing world and maintain driven performance. bp’s customers & products (C&P) business area is setting up a business and technology centre (BTC) in Pune, India. This will support the delivery of an enhanced customer experience and drive innovation by building global capabilities at scale, using technology, and developing deep expertise. The BTC will be a core and connected part of our business, bringing together colleagues who report into their respective part of C&P, working together with other functions across bp. This is an exciting time to join bp and the customers & products BTC.

As a Macro and Micro Space Planner, you’ll play a key role in shaping the in-store experience across bp’s UK retail network. You’ll collaborate with the Branded Buying Teams, Food Service, Offer Development & Sustainability teams, and other UK stakeholders to deliver the “right space, right range, right place” and layout for every store format—ensuring our customers enjoy a safe, efficient, and engaging shopping experience.

This role is pivotal in delivering bp’s customer-first merchandising strategy. You’ll apply bp’s merchandising principles to optimise space, enhance customer experience, and support commercial performance.

What you will deliver:

Develop and maintain customer centric, operationally efficient, and safe Planograms and Floorplans tailored to store formats, clusters, and customer missions.

• Apply bp’s merchandising principles, including:

– Minimum Credible Range (MCR)

– Good, Better, Best product hierarchy

– Minimum Facings, Days’ Supply, and Case Quantities

– Shelf Ready Packaging (SRP) where appropriate

– Category and merchandising group adjacencies

• Ensure compliance with bp’s safety and legal standards in all merchandising layouts.
• Use tools like the Rate of Sale (ROS) report to inform space allocation decisions.
• Collaborate with Category Buyers, M&S, and other stakeholders to align on range, space, and display.
• Support seasonal, promotional, and construction-driven layout changes with agile planogram updates.
• Work in collaboration with M&S to manage seasonal changes for chilled space, four times per year, enabling stores to adjust their ranges to meet differing trends.
• Manage dual-siting strategies and promotional planograms to drive cross-category sales.
• Support new initiatives through a managed suite of planograms and floorplans that can be applied to stores to deliver the offer.
• Deliver analysis on product and department space to make recommendations where space improvements or product changes are needed as part of a cyclical range review approach.
• Update and maintain floorplans to reflect new space, layouts, and equipment changes, ensuring a balanced approach to total space across all store formats, especially in company-owned sites.
• Deliver store layouts that adjust space to meet customer needs based on location, store size, and seasonality.
• Support development programmes by providing updated floorplans aligned with construction timelines, including interim layouts where needed.
• Ensure planograms and floorplans are delivered correctly and compliantly to stores—visually impactful, easy to implement, and safe for both customers and colleagues.
• Maintain and distribute planograms and floorplans online, providing feedback and updates to store requests via TSOL (Trading Support Online Portal).

What you will need to be successful:

• Experience in FMCG or convenience retail space planning.
• Strong understanding of category management and merchandising principles.
• Micro / Macro Space Planning Experience would be beneficial.
• Proficiency in JDA (Blue Yonder) Intactix Space Planning, Floor Planning and IKB / CKB, SAP.
• Ability to interpret Customer Decision Trees (CDT's) and apply them to planogram design.
• Excellent level of numeracy, analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Strong collaboration and relationship management skills.
• Retail Standards, Policies and Procedures.

Why join us:

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. Diversity Statement: At bp, we provide an excellent environment and benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others!

Diversity sits at the heart of our company and as an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Travel Requirement

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning, Creativity and Innovation, customer and competitor understanding, Customer centric thinking, Customer data knowledge, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital Collaboration, Digital Fluency, Industry knowledge and advocacy, Integrated pricing, Knowledge Sharing, Leading transformation, market, Negotiation planning and preparation, Offer and product knowledge {+ 13 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.
If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.