Micro Space Planner

Job Description

The Micro Space Planner would be accountable for reviewing, crafting and updating planograms (and product additions and deletes) using a combination of customer data, insights and business performance indicators. The role is central and critical insofar as assortment and product availability are concerned and plays heavily into shelf strategy (eg, products choices, facings and product minimums). Other areas the role supports include waste and loss prevention (product clearance), segmentation (eg, ranges for different customer missions) and product adjacencies/conversion strategies (eg, building incidence between food and beverage). Shift Timing: 5 AM to 2 PM IST Responsibilities: Ensure the customer is front of mind as part of any/all decision making. Partner with key customers (eg, category team and ANZ Space and Formats lead) to ensure product placement decisions are customer focused and commercially relevant. Building on previous, apply a do-learn-do approach leveraging data and customer insights to improve sales and profitability Monitor and analyse performance metrics (eg, sales, margin and return on space) and work closely with internal stakeholders in order to activate timely interventions Provide timely and effective solutions and promote continuous improvement across all facets of the role. Support the Product Change Cycle (PCC) cycle and compliance with adds and deletes processes Define and implement the range review cycle and ensure activities/requirements are completed within specified time frames Build planograms (and modules) in line with merchandising standards and guidelines! Job requirements qualifications: >4 years micro-space planning experience Ability to convey information fluently, whilst interpreting and clarifying details and explaining ratial Tight-knit collaboration with all internal customers and in particular, members of the Food Merchandise team Strong commercial understanding and excelent analytical/problem solving ability Experience with Blue Yonder JDA space planning tool (or similar tools) highly desirable.