SAS Sr Analyst Floor Planner

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US-MA-Quincy

SAS Sr Analyst Floor Planner

The SAS Sr Analyst Floor Planner plays an important role in the Company through the creation of floor plans, reflows of product location, store/planogram assignments, and fixture reports. This position is responsible for learning, operating, and maintaining various software programs.

The Floor Planner is responsible to ensure delivery of floor plan and fixture development at store level in support of strategic, category and format initiatives. Manage all macro-space tools to ensure delivery and improvement of rule sets and guidelines, to develop and maintain the best floor plans for our stores that meet the needs of our consumers. Understands the strategies for each banner and influences the development of prototype fixture plans to ensure strategies are delivered upon and business objectives are met.

What We Offer:

- Full-Time Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life)
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Will Remain Open Until Filled

The Company is one of North America's leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities
* Responsible to ensure company objectives for sales and profit, product presentation, assortment, adjacencies are achieved.
* Independently creates floor space strategies based on trends, performance data, external data, and other relevant resources.
* Proactively manage changes in scope, identify potential risks to data accuracy or project completion, and devise contingency plans
* Creates ad hoc analysis through micro-strategy to drive strategic recommendations for floor layout and customer facing improvements
* Continually seeks out new and innovative plans to enhance our ability to delivery on the customer experience
* Integrate robust data analysis and variables to develop and maintain planograms reflecting the category's strategic vision, most optimal assortments, merchandising guidelines and size requirements.
* Analyze sales and gross margin data on published planograms to ensure proper use of space requirements and suggest adjustments for future planograms.
* Provide strategic insights and guidance to retail merchandising partners utilizing customer and competitive data to evaluate category performance to accomplish desired business goals.
* Provide leadership towards a small team, tasked with delegating workload and maintaining consistent project completion
* Liaison for multiple corporate departments. Partners with Corporate GM and Division Merchandising Management for feedback and recommendations. Validates feedback and revise stocking plans as needed. Distributes final stocking plans to Division Reset Managers for execution. Provides Division Management with final resolution of all recommended changes to stocking plans. Partners cross functionally with Company and Retailer Leadership to identify potential cost savings, and elimination of unnecessary fixtures.
* Maximizes the use of store space for merchandising sales and profits
* Continuously analyzes performance metrics and identifies opportunities/makes recommendations to optimize space productivity
* Maintains multiple store layout folders and store maps, creates the system and structure to update and change store assortment and space allocation information as the changes are executed in the future. Adapt/interpret Consumer Demand direction to meet business goals based on individual store layouts and challenges.
* Coordinate and utilize reporting tools and store feedback to identify data gaps and errors in the eMapping, gauging the level of data risk, and updating the system/information with an appropriate sense of urgency.
* Leverages technology and resources in the creation of floor and merchandising plans when they provide a competitive advantage or financial benefit.
* Provides training for all macro space associates as well as strategic support for all associates on adapted corporate merchandising principles, practices and systems.
* Delivers and maintains store-specific merchandising plans that accurately meet the needs of our target consumer for that market in support of Non-Perishable and Fresh businesses.
* Performs other duties as required and assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities
Direct Reports
- This position does not have supervisory responsibilities for direct reports
Indirect Reports
- May delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reports
- Delegates works and provides guidance, direct and mentoring to a small project team

Travel and/or Driving Requirements
- Travel and Driving are not essential duties or functions of this job

Minimum Qualifications The following are the minimum job-related qualifications which an individual needs in order to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the job
Education Level: (Required): Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Field of Study/Area of Experience:
5+ Years of experience in Category Merchandising
Grocery Retail or Merchandising experience a plus
Experience with CAD based software systems.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
Understanding of planogram processes and systems, including an understanding of CAD systems
Demonstrated analytical skills with ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders
Ability to gather and interpret data efficiently and accurately
Ability to cross functionally collaborate and problem solve
Strong project management skills a plus

Environmental & Physical Requirements
Office / Sedentary Requirements
Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear the telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may also require the ability to lift up to 10 pounds.

Additional Information Regarding Advantage Solutions Job Duties and Job Descriptions
Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one's supervisor or other manager related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job position or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law. The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.

Any estimate, schedule, or guideline provided to associates in this job description or elsewhere in connection with their jobs is only intended to help describe job duties and for planning purposes. Regardless of any such estimate, schedule, or guideline, associates must always record all time worked for our company (which includes but is not limited to on-site work time in an assigned store, office, or other work location; required waiting time; administrative time; and work-related travel time).

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of associates so classified.

The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, or any other category protected by law. As part of this commitment, the Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable an applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.