Planning Analyst

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of store specific seasonal/quarterly overview floorplans in support of the company financial plans.

• Coordinate with space and floor planning teams to ensure that merchandise and space plans are complete and accurate for new stores, remodels, and prototypes. Create forecast model Heat Maps and provide space recommendations for potential new stores and remodels.

• Analyze performance metrics to ensure we are driving sales and improving store productivity while creating store specific DNA profiles. Must be able to identify and surface business risks and opportunities at a store, district and regional level, providing sound recommendations to proactively manage.

• Influence business partners by presenting sound analysis and impacts to the overall business.

• Support the Manager of Space Planning with ad hoc projects. Proficient in delivering accurate analysis, that is both actionable and presentable to all levels of management.

• Complete each overview floorplan draw cycle in support of company business strategies, desired adjacencies and ideal space, for each store within a specific region.

• Understand the impact of space moves on brand shops and graphics through partnership with Retail Integration and In Store design teams.

• Review accuracy and productivity of overview plans prior to publication to ensure all plans are accurate and executable at store level in the most efficient manner.

• Collaborate with Category floor planners to provide fact-based recommendations on space reallocation to resolve conflicting requests between departments within each store, while maintaining key seasonal strike points, category visual presentation and preferred adjacencies.

• Monitor store feedback mailbox and conduct root cause analysis on feedback to proactively reduce the quantity and type of questions and drive productivity improvements

• Be the subject matter expert on all systems and processes used within Space Management and share experiential knowledge with the members of the team. Participate in special projects, key initiatives, and system updates as requested by Manager of Space Management.

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