Space & Grading Planner

4 weeks ago


London Greater London, United Kingdom Marks and Spencer Full time

Summary

Partner with the BUs to develop and deliver the BU (Business Unit) Space Strategy with accountability for delivering for BU space allocation, the seasonal and AYR space use. Creating opportunities to drive store or category performance in sales, margin, and controllable contribution. Translate the BU & Department strategies into a grading framework for each phase to drive the profitable return of space & stock.

We have a flexible / hybrid approach - talk to us about part time or job share opportunities in this role, if it's meaningful to you, it's important to us.

All the details

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special

  • 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
  • Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days
  • Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
  • A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
  • A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
  • Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
  • Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
  • Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
  • A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include

  • Supports the development and delivery of the space strategy for the BU, fully aligned to the overall C&H strategy
  • Working closely with I&F and Merchandising team to ensure stock is optimised and aligns to planned space through display type management, Stock Dashboard, ROS, MCO and PRES management
  • Drive space productivity using space data, insight, and analytics to inform grading optimisation, densities, ratios, space %TTs and SDG space allocation
  • Share Space performance data with BU's on weekly basis calling out opportunities for improvement. Ensure this information is the most optimal view of space, working with the other BU grading planners to improve when required
  • Continually refine the processes, challenging ways of working

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

  • Strong understanding of the Space/Merchandising critical path, process flows, competencies, and activities
  • Drive and ownership, resilience, and determination to cut through
  • Good knowledge of the Space and Merchandising
  • Good understanding of the Clothing & Home business and operation
  • All relevant C&H, Space & Retail reporting, and merch systems, specifically: JDA floor planning, RP, MP, GMOR, PowerBI, Blue Yonder

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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