Junior Space planner

Junior Technical Design Consultant

Location: Toronto Hybrid

Pay : $25/hour on T4

Hays has partnered with a leading retail giant in Canada to hire a Technical Design Consultant for a 6 month contract with potential extension.

If the above position interests you, please share your updated CV to nishmitha.dsa@hays.com.

Reporting to the Manager, Planning & Analytics, the employee works closely with the Sr. Space Planner to design, build and maintain merchandise planograms (POGs). The Space Planner is responsible for ensuring that POGs accurately reflect assortment decisions and are consistent with category strategy, visual merchandising standards and planogram optimization targets.

Position Responsibilities:

• Design and build quality systems in JDA that optimize space productivity and systems performance, meet specified merchandising strategy, visual merchandising standards and best practices and satisfy merchandising safety standards.
• Capture bays as set in the Innovation Center, conduct space diagnostics and analyze systems based on sales, profitability, and inventory productivity.
• Analyze system and make recommendations to optimize systems improve functionality (customer experience as well as store operations) and financial performance.
• Review systems and discuss systems metrics, and trade-offs or deviations
• Translate assortments and strategies into store specific system based on actual store bay count, bay dimensions, steel/fixtures and store environment.
• Prepare assemblies for steel/fixture orders, where applicable
• Ensure the accuracy of planograms conducting quality checks against assortment listings and store data
• Address deficiencies that arise from pre-walks or execution, in a timely manner and in accordance with defined SLA
• Participate in special projects to contribute to the continuous improvement of the team

Knowledge/Experience Required:

• Must meet minimum time-in-position (1 year) and performance management code requirements of M+.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, able to work with a high sense of urgency and strong attention to detail
• Good communication skills
• Proficient in the use of JDA Space Planning Software to build planograms. Knowledge of Office365
• Proficient in data manipulation and Excel and CAD Software.
• Roomsketcher App
• Expert Knowledge of MS Access an asset and strong reporting skills using PowerBI or SQL
• 2-3 years Business experience, preferably in the retail industry
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor’s degree program or equivalent degree/diploma or combination of equivalent work experience in a field of study related to the job