Macro Space Planner

Maximize and optimize retail store selling space productivity whilst managing and leading a team of specialists (Space Planning Specialists) in order to drive the commercial strategy.

**Accountabilities**
- Develop optimized, customer centric, commercially, and operationally efficient floor plans via sophisticated space models for all new store, refurbishment and commercial project delivery.
- Work closely with Micro Planning teams to ensure planograms built meet floor/fixture space available
- Maximize return on space for all store on new and renewal stores
- Work closely with the Store Format Development team to advise on space related decisions and review total store
- Support Renewal/Refit Co-ordinators in addressing space queries during renewal activity
- Ensure all relevant market, space and customer insights are integrated into floor plans
- Support in reviewing store space queries
- Manage the execution of space-planning strategy by defining actions plans, structuring the workload among the team, setting up priorities, and measuring outcomes in order to ensure successful execution according to the individual and departmental Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Prepare analyses and reports related to space planning (e.g. Category/ store, space productivity per store) by collating and processing space planning related data in order to monitor performance, identify ways of continuous improvements and support other functions of the business (e.g. category management team, store operations)
- Produce space planning related supporting documentation by creating guidelines and manuals (e.g. Display Guidelines, Planogram Manual) to serve other functions (Store Operations Teams, Field Merchandising team) with the implementation process
- Monitor compliance with space planning guidelines by conducting regular store visits and meetings with key stakeholders (e.g. Retail Operations team) to ensure successful implementation of space planning initiatives
- Manage space planning database collection (e.g. Store layout database, fixture database, product database, etc.) by defining administration processes, ensuring on-going updates and revisions, assigning database management activities to team members in order to ensure accuracy and availability of data and enhance reporting capability
- Develop and implement an intelligence software by collecting and analyzing requirements and translating them into software properties to ensure accuracy and facilitate access to the database collection

**Work Environment**
- Indoors : 75%
- Outdoors : 25%
- Working Days : 5 Working Days
- Days off : 2 Days Off
- Working Hours : 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (1 hour break)

**Job Requirement**

**Education**
- BSc in architecture, urban planning, engineering, or related field

**Experience**
- 1 - 3 Years of Experience

**Computer Skills**
- IT literate in drawing packages and space management tools (e.g. AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, etc.)

**Languages**
- English
- Arabic