Retail Space Planner

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Retail Space Planner is essential in creating and overseeing store layouts and planograms to maximize space efficiency, boost product visibility, and drive sales performance. Utilizing tools like JDA/Blue Yonder or similar space planning software, this role ensures that all designs are functional, visually engaging, and aligned with the company's strategic goals. The ideal candidate will possess a strong analytical mindset, technical proficiency, and the ability to transform data insights into practical, impactful solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Layout Design: Create and optimize store layouts and planograms to boost sales and improve the shopping experience.

• Data-Driven Planning: Analyze sales and productivity data to enhance layouts and recommend improvements.

• Tool Proficiency: Maintain and support space planning software, ensuring data accuracy and system reliability.

• Trend Awareness: Integrate customer feedback, market trends, and business objectives into design strategies.

• Collaboration: Partner with merchandising, operations, and marketing teams to align layouts with company goals.

• Performance Tracking: Evaluate layout effectiveness and update designs to meet key performance metrics.

To join our band, you'll need the following experience:

• Bachelor's degree in retail management, business, merchandising, design, or a related field (preferred); or a combination of relevant experience and education.
• 2+ years of proven experience in space planning, retail merchandising, or a related field.
• Proficiency in JDA software or similar space planning tools (e.g., Spaceman, AutoCAD).

About Guitar Center

The Guitar Center Company embodies the world of creativity and music by encouraging our teammates to find their own individual sound. Our mission is to develop and nurture lifelong musicians and make a difference in the world by enabling musicians and non-musicians alike to experience the joy that comes from creating music. We believe in putting our customers first, engaging with respect and integrity and fulfilling our mission with passion.

The Guitar Center Company operates through several business divisions. Guitar Center is the world's largest retailer of guitars, amplifiers, drums, keyboards, recording, live sound, DJ, and lighting equipment, with more than 290 stores across the United States. 2014 marked the milestone 50th anniversary of the Guitar Center Company as the organization continues to help people make music from coast to coast.

E-Commerce brands Guitar Center, Musician's Friend and WWBW offer online sales of a broad selection of music products.The Music & Arts division operates more than 220 stores specializing in band & orchestral instruments for sale and rental, serving teachers, band directors, college professors, and students since 1952. AVDG and GCPro headline the enterprise audio-visual integration business, delivering a best-in-class commercial and residential customer experience.

Why join us?

With a career at Guitar Center, you become part of the world's largest multichannel musical instrument retailer. Whether at our Stores, Contact Centers, Distribution Centers, or Support Center, Guitar Center employees have a common goal: to help people find their sound and fill the world with more music.

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