Senior Analyst, Assortment & Space Planning

Referred applicants should not apply directly to this role.

All referred applicants must first be submitted through Workday by a current Loblaw Colleague.

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Role Mandate:

The Senior Space Planning Analyst (SSPA) works with the Manager, Space Planning (SPM) to design, build and maintain merchandise planograms. The SSPA is responsible for ensuring that planograms accurately reflect assortment decisions and are consistent with category, banner, and corporate strategies, visual merchandising standards, and planogram optimization targets.

The SSPA is accountable for ensuring planograms meet high quality standards and can be executed without issues with the customer experience in mind. By working collaboratively with all stakeholders, the analyst will ensure that planogram layouts will enable profitable sales growth, drive operational excellence, and continuously improve in-stock availability.

Responsibilities:

• Work with SPM to understand the scope of each planogram release to successfully build planograms.
• Provide ongoing maintenance of planograms ensuring the accuracy of images, dimensions, fixtures and assortment updates.
• Attend touchpoint meetings to ensure all critical milestones are being met in a timely fashion to keep the release on track.
• Capture planograms set up at the lab by scanning and imaging products into space planning software.
• Utilize tools available (Planogram Generator) to ensure that planograms are built in an efficient and accurate manner.
• Ensure portfolio of planograms supports the category strategy and adheres to the highest quality standards, using established guardrails for each format/banner.
• Reviews all aspects of data accuracy for the planogram builds.
• Develop a good understanding of product attributes and merchandising style for effective placement of product on shelf.
• Perform planogram reporting and quality checks to ensure standards are met.
• Supporting the development and refinement of best practices to be implemented within the Space Planning Department by working with the appropriate stakeholders within the organization
• Assist with Kick Off meetings at the start of a planogram release to develop a strong understanding of Category format/strategy
• Work with large amounts of data to evaluate, draw conclusions, and provide insights and recommendations to the SPM/ Space Planning Team on opportunities to optimize planogram performance and correct any data integrity issues
• Adhoc Projects: Assist SPM with a broad range of projects to meet ongoing business needs.
• Provide data, reporting and additional support required to the Space Planning Team on various department initiatives.
• Be an agile and effective team player who engages well and facilitates workload sharing within team.

Requirements:

• A post-secondary education in Business or equivalent work experience
• Working knowledge and high proficiency in Excel and Power Point are mandatory, Access database experience would be considered an asset
• Must be able to manipulate, manage and pull insights from large sets of data from multiple sources in an effective manner
• Strong analytical skills, with attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with good communication skills, (oral and written), and a high level of confidence
• Capable of working in a fast pace and deadline focused environment
• Excellent planning, organizational and analytical skills
• Willingness to conduct store visits and travel to planogram labs (within GTA)
• Work independently to multi-task and prioritize to meet established deadlines
• Be self-motivated, with a positive outlook and growth mindset that encompass the Loblaw CORE values (CARE, OWNERSHIP, RESPECT, EXCELLENCE).

Our commitment to Sustainability and Social Impact is an essential part of the way we do business, and we focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars – Environment, Sourcing and Community – and we are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our CORE Values – Care, Ownership, Respect and Excellence – guide all our decision-making and come to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and other competitive benefits – these are some of the many reasons why we are one of Canada’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers & Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.

If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.

We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.

Please Note:
Candidates who are 18 years or older are required to complete a criminal background check. Details will be provided through the application process.