Overview
Space Planner – New and Renewal – London, Greater London
Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.
Summary
We’re reshaping our Food business to broaden its appeal, protecting the magic our customers love while modernising everything else. That means outstanding quality, high sourcing standards, and market-leading innovation remain at our core, while we transform our supply chains, improve our stores, and deliver better value.
We’re looking for motivated people ready to bring their whole self to work and thrive in a fast-paced, ambitious team. After all, this isn’t just food… this is M&S Food.
All the details
As a Space & Display planner you’ll be responsible for the creation and updating of Store floorplans for our upcoming Convenience New and Renewal Stores. You’ll ensure our stores are easy for customers to shop, align with business space and display principles and meet our operational requirements. You’ll work in collaboration with the Convenience Commercial, Property, Supply Chain and SRD teams to ensure delivery of planograms and floorplans to agreed timeframes, ensuring successful store openings, through effective workload management and a solution driven mindset.
What you’ll do
- Build accurate floor plans for the stores to the agreed critical path and in line with convenience blueprints
- Agree floor plans with franchise partners and commercial managers
- Visit the New and Renewal stores across the country ensuring we land right first time as well as gathering and reacting to feedback in real time
- Provide display and space related management information to relevant partners
- Accountable for running appropriate system checks to ensure right first-time floorplans and planograms
- Implement the business Trade Planning strategy through optimising out of aisle space across every store
Involvement with ad hoc projects and team initiatives
Who you are
- Excellent project management with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy
- Proactivity and solution driven
- Good analytical skill
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Suite including Microsoft Excel
- Knowledge of the Space, Range, Display, NPD, Supply Chain and Procurement processes and critical paths
What’s in it for You?
Working at M&S means being part of something bigger – delivering quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.
- 20% colleague discount for you + 1 household member (after probation)
- Competitive holiday allowance + option to buy more
- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to performance
- Strong pension + life assurance
- Tailored induction + training from day one
- Perks and savings via M&S Choices portal
- Market-leading family policies (parental, adoption, neonatal leave)
- 24/7 wellbeing support (GP access + mental health services)
- 1 paid volunteer day a year
Everyone’s Welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail – disrupting, innovating and leading into a more inspiring digital era. We want diverse, representative teams where everyone can bring their whole selves to work.
If you need support or adjustments during recruitment, let us know in your application. Our team will make sure you have what you need to do your best.
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