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Space Planning Manager

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Waitrose & Partners

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United Kingdom , London

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Salary:

56000.00 - 84300.00 GBP / Year

Job Description:

As the Space Planning Manager within the Store Experience Directorate, you will lead a Space Planning team to develop the Physical Estate Space strategies for all Shop Formats. You will be ultimately accountable for realising optimal proposition blueprints onto the shop floor to deliver customer centric adjacencies and commercial performance metrics. You will develop and utilise the shop blueprint to optimise the use of space, maximising profitability and ensuring an excellent customer experience.

Job Responsibility:

  • Lead and develop the Directorate space strategy proposition and blueprints for all shop formats
  • Optimum allocation of space to assortment to deliver strategy profitability and maximise customer experience
  • Effective leadership and development of Level 7s and Level 8s to ensure continued growth of a High Performing team
  • Drive space performance through effective allocation of space
  • product, service, experience and design propositions with a view to reduce costs where possible and deliver optimal return per sq ft
  • Develop and evolve the Shop Blueprint that balances commercial, customer, services, assortment, flow, adjacencies and stock targets, triangulating competing ambitions
  • Translate commercial, customer, retail and property strategy into all Physical Estate activity providing space briefs that span new concepts, projects, formats and seasonal change, balancing customer and profit needs
  • Provide proactive and reactive insight, expertise, challenge and support to develop and define propositional space strategies
  • Support the development of propositional opportunities with key stakeholders, carrying out feasibility activity and scoping alongside supporting in building business cases and developing commercial opportunities
  • Work effectively across all Physical Estate teams spanning Property, Customer and Trading to optimise the use of our physical estate through new formats, downsizes and physical estate interventions
  • Influence Merchandising teams to reduce working capital and deliver optimal allocations of assortments to space through effective ranging and planning
  • Ensure all projects optimise space, balancing great customer experience with presentation and linear requirements
  • Develop and generate ideas and opportunities to drive greater value from our estate particularly in Q4 and with seasonal opportunities
  • Support and upskill Partners across the business to deliver commercially sound and customer centric value additive projects and opportunities
  • Increase business understanding and awareness of space metrics such that they become business-as-usual. Champion the use of space to deliver retail benefit and optimisation

Requirements:

  • Demonstrates strong commercial awareness
  • Demonstrates strong analytical skills
  • Experience in process improvement
  • Excellent planning, organisation and orchestration skills
  • Ability to manage the complexities and competing priorities and strategies to make courageous decisions
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Excellent cross functional working skills and Stakeholder management
  • Verbal / written communication

Nice to have:

  • Experience in a trading and/or branch role is an advantage
  • Line Management and leadership (matrix management desirable)
  • Experience of continuous improvement
What we offer:
  • LEISURE LEARNING - Enjoy learning a new skill or hobby even more by claiming up to £200 towards certain tutored courses
  • PARTNER DISCOUNT - 25% off at John Lewis and 20% at Waitrose
  • CLUBS & SOCIETIES - From arts & crafts to fishing, from skiing to running, we have so many clubs and societies bringing Partners with shared interests together
  • HOLIDAY & LEAVE - Enjoy a generous holiday provision
  • PENSION & LIFE ASSURANCE - Secure your future with our comprehensive pension scheme and life assurance
  • EXCLUSIVE HOTELS - Recharge and reconnect at our exclusive Partnership hotels in locations across the UK

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 20, 2026

Expiration:
March 22, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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