Sr. Visual Space Planner
HybridRaleigh, North Carolina, United States
Raleigh, North Carolina, United StatesHybridFull TimeSenior LevelEnterprise
Full TimeSenior LevelEnterprise
Job Summary
Partner with Category Management to develop merchandising strategies that drive incremental sales and gross margin through space productivity. Execute space optimization opportunities on a macro level, leading execution with IOM and Real Estate partners while utilizing SQL queries and Excel to interpret reports. Create Merchandising Floorplans that match strategy and construction outlays, ensuring accurate mapping of prototypes in a system-based environment. Support stores by articulating merchandising instructions and resolving Floorplan needs via Service Garage within 24-48 hours. Uphold Visual Merchandising guidelines and prepare for Category Management milestones. This role requires 5-7 years of retail experience and operates hybrid (4 days in office, 1 day remote) at Advance Auto Parts headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Required Qualifications
- 5-7 years of retail and/or project management experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Merchandising, Design or related field
- Advanced skills in MS Office Products Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access
- Intermediate Blue Yonder Systems and/or SQL experience
- Intermediate AutoCad and/or Space Management experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to engage with various audiences
- Demonstrated ability to leverage critical thinking and problem solve using large data sets
- Acumen in optimizing the presentation of products and services to create a pleasing customer, while maximizing profitability
- Understanding of merchandising strategies and techniques used to increase sales, such as product placement, fixture usage, promotions, advertising, and competitive pricing
- Experience creating product planograms using visual merchandising software, ensuring accuracy in product skus, inventory required, fixtures needed, and product placement, while considering shoppability and profitability
- Ability to complete tasks while paying attention to all areas involved, no matter how small, ensuring thorough and accurate execution
- Understanding how a business operates, including financial literacy, how an organization makes money, organizational knowledge, and short and long term growth strategies
- Sense opportunities and obstacles that create barriers to results
- View weaknesses as an opportunity to learn and grow; Actively work to improve weaknesses
- Analyze advantages and disadvantages to new ideas
- Can compromise (win concessions) without damaging relationships
- Prioritize business relationships beyond your team to gather differing perspectives and information, and work together; Recognize potential impacts of choices upstream, downstream, and across teams
- Hybrid (4 days in office, 1 day remote) work availability
- Flexibility for occasional travel
Desired Qualifications
- Top 5 Required Technical Skills: Visual Merchandising: Acumen in optimizing the presentation of products and services to create a pleasing customer, while maximizing profitability
- Top 5 Required Technical Skills: Merchandising Strategies: Understanding of merchandising strategies and techniques used to increase sales, such as product placement, fixture usage, promotions, advertising, and competitive pricing
- Top 5 Required Technical Skills: Planogram Creation: Experience creating product planograms using visual merchandising software, ensuring accuracy in product skus, inventory required, fixtures needed, and product placement, while considering shoppability and profitability
- Top 5 Required Technical Skills: Detail-Oriented: Ability to complete tasks while paying attention to all areas involved, no matter how small, ensuring thorough and accurate execution
- Top 5 Required Technical Skills: Business Acumen: Understanding how a business operates, including financial literacy, how an organization makes money, organizational knowledge, and short and long term growth strategies
- Top 5 Required Leadership Skills: Ownership: Sense opportunities and obstacles that create barriers to results
- Top 5 Required Leadership Skills: Self-Development: View weaknesses as an opportunity to learn and grow; Actively work to improve weaknesses
- Top 5 Required Leadership Skills: Innovate: Analyze advantages and disadvantages to new ideas
- Top 5 Required Leadership Skills: Influence Others: Can compromise (win concessions) without damaging relationships
- Top 5 Required Leadership Skills: Collaborate: Prioritize business relationships beyond your team to gather differing perspectives and information, and work together; Recognize potential impacts of choices upstream, downstream, and across teams
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