Island of Ireland Space Planner

M&S Food is changing, and fast! We are undergoing one of the biggest transformations in retailing today to build a bigger, better, fresher food business.

From Percy Pig to the freshest M&S Select Farms produce, we grow, source, and develop our own products to give our customers family-ready food that's unbeatable on flavour and innovation.

We need motivated people who are ready to bring their whole self to work and give it their all in a fast-paced team committed to being the best. After all, this is not just food… This is M&S Food.

As a Space Planner, you will produce and maintain accurate, commercial floor plans that reflect the appropriate business blueprint, macro space rules and principles for their stores. This will help to deliver the strategic and seasonal changes to floor plans within the agreed timescales.

Key Accountabilites and Measures

• Analysing data to produce floorplans which maximise profit in each store
• Maintain floor plans for your stores for all changes to space (e.g. range changes, strategic changes, seasonal and promotional changes) to the agreed Critical Path
• Review store requests to change space and conduct analysis to support a recommendation on whether to allow the change - escalate for approval to the appropriate member of the SRD team as required
• Provide information on space and layouts as required by the business
• Drive implementation via regular communications and engagement of their stores, Head of Region, Head of Division and Head of Trade
• Visit their stores regularly to review implementation of floor plans, displays and ranges to gain store feedback and to identify potential improvements and opportunities – this will involve travel roughly every 4 weeks to NI / ROI
• Accountable for running appropriate system checks to ensure right first-time floorplans
• Develop your understand and knowledge of Blue Yonder
• Lead cultural change and engage cross functionally
• Identify and unlock space initiatives that will add value and profit to our business

Key Skills

• Excellent Stakeholder management
• Excellent project and Critical Path management
• In depth knowledge of Floor Planning Principles and Rules
• Excellent data analysis and problem solving
• Detailed knowledge of the SRD processes and critical paths
• FAQT
• Blue Yonder Floor Planning and Data Manager
• CAD

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.