Description
North America’s largest book distributor with over 70,000 customer store locations. We move over 325,000,000 books per year and work with over 700 retailers and 500 publishers. If you want to end every day knowing that you helped deliver a book into the hands of readers across America, let’s talk. We are currently recruiting for a Space & Merchandise Planner based out of our corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois. The position is eligible to participate in a hybrid schedule.
The Space and Merchandise Planner is responsible for the coordination and execution of book planograms across multiple customers.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Manage planogram needs and advances company effectiveness in utilizing the Blue Yonder/JDA CKB platform (Space Planning, Data Manager, Open Access, Web Publisher, and Planogram Generator).
- Create, execute and update presentation planograms covering all categories of product and supporting all stores in line with the overall space merchandising strategy of the organization and its customers. o
- Maintain Fixture Library for all planogram types and customers
- Build and update account specific fixtures as needed.
- Work closely with Sales teams to ensure fixtures for their customers are built accurately.
- Act as the subject matter expert for merchandise space planning for peers.
- Utilize BY/JDA reporting, including highlights, tables, and other tools to analyze product performance.
- Accountable for all aspects of assigned merchandising programs. Ensure data is accurate, complete, and consistent with defined standards in multiple systems when creating and maintaining planograms.
- Develop, document, uphold and communicate visual merchandising best practices.
- Follow fundamental retail strategies but challenge traditional methods.
- Uphold the standards across the organization.
- Follow customer specific guidelines as needed.
- Position is a collaborative role across the enterprise, including Product Managers, Category Management, Sales, and Store Planning to ensure planograms are both as profitable as possible with analytics available, and “retail-ready” upon publication
- Time Management – the individual has the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects and customers using a range of skills, tools and techniques to effectively manage tasks, projects, goals, deadlines and schedules.
- Interpersonal Skills – the individual can effectively work with a wide variety of personalities and perspectives, remains open to others’ ideas, and exhibits willingness to try new things.
- Written and Oral Communication – the individual speaks clearly in positive and negative situations and can represent Readerlink and our customers in a professional manner in public and private interactions. The individual also edits written work for spelling and grammar, presents numerical data effectively andis able to read and interpret written information.
- Organization – the individual can effectively develop and maintain processes for record-keeping and reporting for their customers, projects, goals and deadlines. Must be able to maintain high levels of accuracy and detail.
- Analysis – the individual can combine and apply information from disparate sources and can interpret and draw conclusions from both quantitative and qualitative data.
- Other duties may be assigned, directed or requested.
What You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s Degree or comparable professional experience preferred.
- 1-2 years’ experience with Blue Yonder/JDA Space Planning module required.
- Minimum 1 year experience with Data Manager
- Knowledge of BY/JDA Planogram Generator preferred.
- Demonstrated understanding of interior retail design, consumer behavior, product placement, margin recognition and fundamental merchandising techniques
- Strong prioritization, process optimization, project management, and problem-solving capabilities
- Strong PC skills (Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, Power Point)
- Basic understanding of retail math
- The work performed is in an office environment.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate at low decibels.
- Must be able to work independently on tactics and in high-functioning groups on strategic direction.
Salary: Starting at $60,000.00
ReaderLink is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. EOE/Minorities/Female/Disabled/Veteran.
ReaderLink is committed to recruiting, hiring and promoting people with disabilities and veterans.If you need an accommodation to assist with completing the electronic application, please email your request to [email protected], or call: (708) 356-3737.
ReaderLink is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. EOE/Minorities/Female/Disabled/Veteran.ReaderLink is committed to recruiting, hiring and promoting people with disabilities and veterans. If you need an accommodation to assist with completing the electronic application, please email your request to [email protected], or call: (708) 356-3737.