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Academy Sports + Outdoors · 2 days ago

Senior Merchandise and Space Planner

Katy, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

4+ years exp

Academy Sports + Outdoors is committed to creating a workplace environment that values hard work, commitment, and growth. The Senior Merchandise and Space Planner will lead efforts in merchandise planning and visual merchandising to achieve sales and profit objectives, while also managing planograms and collaborating with various teams to optimize retail performance.

E-CommerceSports

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Leads a sub-set of the team’s efforts in partnership with merchandise planning and visual merchandising organizations to achieve sales and profit objectives through accurate space analysis, efficient macro and micro space planning and consumer centric planogram creation

Builds and maintains collaborative partnerships with Merchant, Visual Merchandise Presentation Creative, Inventory, and Store Operations teams. Consistently works cross-functionally to gain alignment on planograms and/or merchandise plans in accordance to strategic business presentation objectives

Executes quality control measures for planograms and/or merchandise plans ensuring accuracy of store assignments, compliance with strategic vision and/or corporate standards, and attention to detail

Actively leads continual process improvement efforts, evaluates planogram effectiveness and makes recommendations to maximize workflow efficiencies. Finds causal factors that can constrain performance and profits. Visibly drives for and delivers process improvements

Provides store support regarding planograms and/or merchandising plans. Acts with a strong sense of urgency to anticipate customer needs. Takes responsibility for finding lasting solutions to difficult problems

Manage JDA Intactix Floorplanning floorplan changes for all stores within assigned Regions and maintains current and future view of all stores within the application. Develop mastery across an array of functions – including but not limited to, creation of layouts, loading tiers, pulling data and maintaining store attributes

Understand merchandising and planning strategies, communicate these strategies to cross-functional partners as guiding principles while also applying general direction to individual stores

Direct all aspects of visual merchandising, including planogram creation, fixture-graphic fulfillment, and reset coordination

Serve as an integral part of the Category Merchandising Team (CMT) in driving sales, gross margin and turn

Provide data and analytics to influence decision-making in merchandise buys, assortment tiers, marketing, creative and product allocations

Take ownership of special projects and initiatives and report back to team on new developments, strategies, and/ or roll-out plans

Oversee analytics and assortment optimization to increase retailer category sales and perform strategic category analysis and insights discovery

Lead the development and implementation of new innovative fixture initiatives and serve as the visual merchandising strategy expert

Coordinate the onboarding and training of new existing Category Space Planners for the category team

Duties may change; team member may be required to perform other duties as assigned

Qualification

Advanced Excel SkillsJDA Category Management SuiteAnalytical SkillsRetail Buying ExperienceProject ManagementPresentation SkillsInterpersonal CommunicationProblem Solving SkillsAttention to Detail

Required

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline: Economics, IT, Supply Chain, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent years of related work experience required

4+ years of retail buying, retail operations or relevant work experience required

Drive and influences change via behavior and enthusiasm in his/her work lead process implementations and drive mindset changes to improve productivity and/or profitability

Microsoft Office with Advanced Excel Skills

Exceptional analytical skills & financial literacy

Strong Presentation skills - must excel at communicating complex information in simple to understand yet actionable ways

Strong interpersonal, written, verbal communication with the ability to interface effectively with individuals at various levels within the organization

Strong attention to detail and sound problem solving skills for technical and business issues

Project Management - establishing key milestones & focusing on deliverables, following up with key stakeholders and delivering on time/on budget

Expert knowledge of JDA Category Management Suite

Ability to prioritize and manage a large volume of work across multiple projects in a fast paced frequently changing environment

Ability to produce high quality work that is very detailed, accurate and completed on schedule

Sound listening and analytical skills, likes problem solving and offering creative ideas/resolution to challenges

Responds positively to change, by embracing and adopting new direction and process changes required to accomplish goals and solve problems

Leads a sub-set of the team's efforts in partnership with merchandise planning and visual merchandising organizations to achieve sales and profit objectives through accurate space analysis, efficient macro and micro space planning and consumer centric planogram creation