What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Store Planning position at American Greetings?
Job Description
As this is a hybrid position, working out of our Creative Studios in Westlake, Ohio, we will focus on candidates who currently reside in Northeast Ohio.
American Greetings is looking for a Manager, Store Planning to lead strategy and execution of space allocation for our Celebrations departments across key accounts. This role is responsible for optimizing in-store layouts to drive productivity and profitability, aligning closely with each retailer's unique strategy.
This role requires strong analytical skills and leveraging data and analytics to inform space and sales models, ensuring effective category and occasion level allocation. They also oversee the execution of retail updates, including planogram development and in-store merchandising assignments.
Our ideal candidate embodies a strong blend of analytical thinking, strategic planning, and cross functional collaboration to deliver impactful retail experiences and business growth.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Development of strategies to drive retail updates
Awareness to how retail updates effect the financial plans
Strong collaboration with Field Management on diagrams and revisions
Create and maintain all floorplans for American Greetings
Participate in executing continuous improvement opportunities
Analyze productivity and profitability for their floorplans and suggests areas of opportunity to better achieve goals
Ensure all celebrations retail updates are completed in the most cost effective manner
Manage productivity of space; identifying opportunities to improve productivity through optimizations
Accurate and efficient management of product, planogram, store and assortment data
Efficient creation and maintenance of floorplans
Manage individual contributors and work on training and development
Manage analyst(s) on a day to day basis to meet goals and deadlines. Provide coaching feedback and career development opportunities.
Enhance the reporting capabilities to enrich American Greeting’s business processes
Strong understanding on capacity of the team and help to manage workload
Strong communication and collaboration with business unit leads across the business
Experience Required
Required Length & Type of Experience:
5-10 years related experience
Experience managing individual contributors
Consumer packaged goods experience preferred in areas of product management and/or merchandising
Space Planning/merchandising Experience Is Preferred
Strong analytic skills
Strong financial expertise
Clear, crisp communication and presentation skills
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
JDA knowledge preferred
CAD Experience Preferred
Microsoft office, especially Excel & Visio
Education Required
Bachelors degree in Business or related subject
Career Site Category
Corporate Jobs
As this is a hybrid position, working out of our Creative Studios in Westlake, Ohio, we will focus on candidates who currently reside in Northeast Ohio.
American Greetings is looking for a Manager, Store Planning to lead strategy and execution of space allocation for our Celebrations departments across key accounts. This role is responsible for optimizing in-store layouts to drive productivity and profitability, aligning closely with each retailer's unique strategy.
This role requires strong analytical skills and leveraging data and analytics to inform space and sales models, ensuring effective category and occasion level allocation. They also oversee the execution of retail updates, including planogram development and in-store merchandising assignments.
Our ideal candidate embodies a strong blend of analytical thinking, strategic planning, and cross functional collaboration to deliver impactful retail experiences and business growth.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Development of strategies to drive retail updates
Awareness to how retail updates effect the financial plans
Strong collaboration with Field Management on diagrams and revisions
Create and maintain all floorplans for American Greetings
Participate in executing continuous improvement opportunities
Analyze productivity and profitability for their floorplans and suggests areas of opportunity to better achieve goals
Ensure all celebrations retail updates are completed in the most cost effective manner
Manage productivity of space; identifying opportunities to improve productivity through optimizations
Accurate and efficient management of product, planogram, store and assortment data
Efficient creation and maintenance of floorplans
Manage individual contributors and work on training and development
Manage analyst(s) on a day to day basis to meet goals and deadlines. Provide coaching feedback and career development opportunities.
Enhance the reporting capabilities to enrich American Greeting’s business processes
Strong understanding on capacity of the team and help to manage workload
Strong communication and collaboration with business unit leads across the business
Experience Required
Required Length & Type of Experience:
5-10 years related experience
Experience managing individual contributors
Consumer packaged goods experience preferred in areas of product management and/or merchandising
Space Planning/merchandising Experience Is Preferred
Strong analytic skills
Strong financial expertise
Clear, crisp communication and presentation skills
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
JDA knowledge preferred
CAD Experience Preferred
Microsoft office, especially Excel & Visio
Education Required
Bachelors degree in Business or related subject
Career Site Category
Corporate Jobs