Store Planner

3 weeks ago

Greater London, United Kingdom Marks & Spencer Full time
Store Planner - Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.

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Summary

As a Store Planner you will be right at the forefront of our ambitious Transformation Plans at M&S. You will be accountable for the end-to-end planning of projects through their entire lifecycle including New Stores, Renewals of our existing Store estate and Store Environment roll out programmes.

You will manage your own portfolio of projects whilst having the support of the wider Store planning team to assist you. The role will require extensive travel to projects across the UK as required to ensure smooth and effective delivery of projects with a regular day in our support centre in Waterside to collaborate.

We are passionate about maintaining our market leading store environments and formats, and as such you will be working closely with our in-house store design teams to implement new initiatives and concepts at pace into our pipeline of projects. This requires collaborative working and the ability to manage change and ambiguity at pace whilst maintaining firm control of the overall store plan.

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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…

  • After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 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

  • Manage the end to end Store Planning process for Food, Clothing & Home, Hospitality, Back of House and operational space in all new store openings, developments and modernisations. Provide considered and expert advice to architects and contractors.
  • Accountable for the brief and formal review of the complete drawing package for schemes to include signage, internal and external elevations and store layout.
  • Deliver layouts that maximise operational efficiency and deliver clear, easy to shop stores. Identify potential operational challenges and offer pragmatic, budget appropriate, solutions.
  • Deliver strong, clear and consistent communication to Store Directors, Heads of Region and Store teams. Act as key point of contact for internal stakeholders on all aspects of store planning.
  • Provide visible leadership for store projects through entire project life cycle (design team meetings, pre-start, progress and PC.) Provide cost effective and innovative solutions to any on-site challenges as they arise.
  • Work closely with key stakeholder groups across the business to ensure each plan delivers footage in line with current requirements and meets the customer shopping mission. In particular, the Food Space Range & Display and Clothing & Home Layout Planning teams.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

  • Previous Store planning experience in a large format retailer or similar business preferred.
  • Experience of utilising 2D layout planning systems including Storespace and AutoCAD.
  • Stakeholder Management – Confidence to communicate across all levels of the business both internally and externally, providing considered challenge when required and providing solutions to feedback received.
  • Decision Making and Time Management – working independently and managing own workload.
  • Communication and Influencing across project teams.

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 beat your best through this process.

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