Space Planner and Category Analyst na Analyticsmart

The Opportunity

As a Space Planner with Analyticsmart, you would primarily be responsible for managing various space planning & planogram initiatives across different categories to drive effective growth. This is a high impact role which requires an excellent integrated understanding of merchandising and retail sales concepts. Additionally, you will be required to coordinate and organize all activities related to space management according to categories.

What you'll do

• Managing Space Planning process with clients to meet the necessary deadlines, standards, and accuracy expectations.
• Developing, improving, and managing planograms and merchandising best practices for our client’s sales and marketing departments.
• Creating planograms using JDA space management software.
• Partnering and supporting the client planning team with space insights to drive the merchandising strategy including new department and store concepts.
• Supporting Planning Initiatives with a multitude of analysis such as: financials, capacity, store listings etc.
• Obtaining all information necessary to enable planogram production.
• Developing a good understanding of assigned categories
• Ensuring timely and accurate reporting on a weekly, monthly, quarterly & annual basis in addition to ad hoc requests
• Measuring and auditing key activities, tracking progress and exploring opportunities.
• Creating all planograms necessary using Space Planning Software to fulfill Account requests.
• Ensuring planograms are published in accordance with the Account planogram calendar.
• Creating and collecting documentation to back-up category reviews.
• Creating and analyzing planogram financial sales to back-up and monitor planogram revisions.
• Working cross functionally to assist any team member that needs additional support in achieving daily production.
• Managing Account planograms to support any product speed to market and category shelving initiatives.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in managing space planning or planogram initiatives
• Category Management experience
• 4 years of CPG experience
• JDA knowledge & Nielsen experience
• Exceptional MS Excel Skills
• Proficiency with computers, especially MS Office and analytics software
• Strong analysis, organization, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Exceptional presentation and research skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Very strong attention to detail
• Ability to meet strict deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications, but not required:

• Background in Consumer Package Goods Industry
• Fluency in French