C&h Space Planning Lead

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Marks & Spencer Full time

**Summary**

We are looking for a **Clothing & Home Space Planning Lead** to join our team Could it be you?

Please note this position will be for 1 year to cover Maternity leave

This is a fantastic time to join M&S Clothing and Home Space Planning as we continue on our Space Transformation journey, a critical part of our overall business transformation. We are looking for someone with passion to drive the space agenda forward, who can establish and maintain strong relationships. You will be joining Space Planning at a critical time in our transformation, leading an enthusiastic, driven, and commercial team, who are tirelessly working to deliver our business ambitions.

You will be accountable for the development and delivery of our Clothing & Home Category Space Strategies, through to ownership of plans that deliver into stores. You will be optimising space to stock and category profitability, whilst supporting our drive to improve in-store experience. You should have a strong knowledge of merchandise planning, the associated processes, and systems and how to optimise retail space.

**About the Role**

Overall accountability on behalf of the Head of Space, for the development and delivery of the BU Space strategy. Translation into seasonal & phased plans to optimise the use of space & stock. Maximise profitability and in-store experience, driving YoY BU growth and reducing working capital, aligned to the C&H Space Strategy and Transformation:

- Working with the Business Unit Leadership Team to develop a Space Blueprint and Transformation Programme, that delivers the most profitable BU space and assortment and demonstrate to customers our focus on style, across formats and grades.
- From this strategy, develop a YoY programme of change aligned to the buying 3YP and associated critical path.
- Owns the development and delivery of the category grading structures to deliver on our OBW ambitions (aligned to the E2E) and clear propositional differences in place
- Owns input into the format strategy, interfacing with the macro-space team to ensure that, no matter the size, the M&S proposition comes to life.
- Use space insight and analytics, along with customer, store, catchment, competitor, and merchandising MI to optimise estate and grade performance, space and assortment plans for future seasons.
- Seeks out new opportunities to transform performance, grow key categories or transform the online/store end-to-end customer experience.
- Use productivity metrics to drive the performance of stores and graded space and utilises test and learn opportunities to demonstrate benefit. Develop close working relationships with Supply Chain to ensure alignment of plan to send stock and optimisation of space.
- Own and deliver the Space Transformation plan for the BU.
- Build close links between the teams in the C&H Business Units, VM, Property and Supply Chain to influence and drive change
- Lead the C&H BU Space Planning Team
- Lead and develop the BU Space Team to continually their technical capabilities, improve ways of working, processes and approach to our deliverables
- Deliver cataloguing grading framework by BU, manageable and flexible enough to drive the product assortment requirements profitably, underpinned by OBW
- Ensure alignment between C&H space and BU T-Dept strategies to deliver on the market share growth opportunity
- Lead the development and tracking of the end-to-end critical path for BU Space Planning, identify and deliver on improvements to process and ensure readiness for the deployment of o9.
- Support the E2E Transformation, ensuing relevant inputs to design process, as well as aligning WOW ahead of rollout
- Think ‘omni-first’ in all development, driving the benefit of catchment sales, seeking to ensure projects harmonise both channels. Utilise contribution curve customer and catchment insight to make informed decisions regarding the optimisation of space
- Work with the BU Template Planners to understand excess space, densities and opportunities by season to drive sales and optimise performance
- Work with the BU Departmental teams to seasonally plan grading structures by phase, together with department space, ranging and volume planning at Store Display Group level
- Ownership of translation of BU department option plans into Store Display Group (SDGs) at grade level
- Work with Supply Chain to ensure volumes sent to stores are aligned to the plan
- Work with Store Space Performance Team and new/refurb store planning team to ensure all store projects plans are fully optimised and aligned to the BU and Space strategy. Manage launch options closely to ensure smooth opening
- Ensure management of all key space and merchandising systems e.g. SOFA and Range Planner
- Manage BU seasonal space PIR’s
- Own C&H Space Planning for Outlets across all BUs
- Lead with a continuous improvement programme and mindset in all we do; continually reviewing what we do and how we do it, removing unnecessary



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