Space Planner

About the role

The Space Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining store floor plans and planograms that support merchandising and category strategies. This role translates merchandising direction into clear, accurate, and executable layouts, ensuring consistency, operational efficiency, and an effective customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains store floor plans aligned with merchandising and category strategies.
• Creates layouts by store format, footprint, and set, optimizing selling space, customer flow, and operational efficiency.
• Plans placement of fixtures, end caps, shipper displays, and promotional displays.
• Develops and maintains planograms that reflect approved merchandising direction and adjust for store-specific constraints.
• Maintains accurate planogram files, documentation, and version control.
• Uploads, organizes, and manages planograms within store-facing platforms.
• Ensures store layouts and planograms are clear, accurate, and executable, maintaining accessible documentation and fostering strong collaboration with merchandising, foodservice, and operations teams to minimize execution issues.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for space planning systems, tools, and processes.
• Collaborates with category managers, foodservice teams, and store operations to ensure plans are executable.
• Communicates layout and display placement guidance clearly to store teams.
• Ensures layouts comply with safety, ADA, and fire code requirements.
• Identifies and resolves layout conflicts prior to execution.
• Serves as a point of contact for inventory system maintenance, reporting, and product lifecycle updates.
• Affords support for pricing, promotional execution, and signage.
• Provides additional merchandising or operational support during peak periods.

Requirements

• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Proficiency with space management and planogram software, including Blue Yonder.
• Working knowledge of design/layout tools such as AutoCAD or similar.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel.
• Ability to deliver friendly, courteous, and professional customer service.
• Ability and willingness to work flexible hours, including occasional travel, as needed to support store execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Merchandising, Retail Management, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 2-4 years of retail space planning, merchandising, or planogram experience.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to implement store layouts and merchandising programs.

Skills

• Space management and planogram software proficiency.
• Design/layout tools proficiency.
• Communication and collaboration skills.
• Microsoft Office proficiency.

Benefits

Bosselman offers a range of benefits including:

• Paid vacation
• 401K and matching contributions
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Short and long term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• A clearly defined path for growth
• On-demand pay with PayActiv (access to earned but not yet paid wages)
• And much more!

Pay

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Schedule

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