Job Title
Midi Space Planner
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits.
Category
Corporate Visual Merchandising
Closing Date
9 June 2025
“Find your role”
The Food Midi Space analysts sit within the supply chain function alongside the floor planning team. They are pivotal to planning all midi food space activity ensuring the category scope is reflected in store and supportive to commercial asks. You will be accountable for the end-to-end midi space changes in stores, this will include our existing superstores, supercentres, supermarkets and the newly cohabited express stores.
You will be responsible for managing your own workload, managing stakeholder communication and expectations throughout the critical path and ensuring that all stages of the activity are delivered to a high standard with a level of detail that ensures smooth delivery in each stage of the critical path. We have a fantastic team of experienced midi space analysts to support and assist you throughout.
We work in a fast-paced environment, where we always look to do things better with the ambition to simplify processes. You’ll work collaboratively with modular planning, commercial and property and must have strong communication skills with the ability to influence and cascade.
You Will:
* Produce store specific recommendations using a range of data sets to support the strategic and commercial scope
* Work closely and collaboratively with key stakeholders; modular planning, floor planning, commercial and property.
* Support the wider team to ensure flows and adjacencies models are up to date and fit for purpose, this ensures that all stores are planned to model, and changes are approved in line with expectation.
* Check store specific space data to ensure all plans meet our strategic and commercial space requirements.
* Land the commercial strategy whilst also protecting the operational metrics in stores
* Present all store recommendations in a meeting style forum where you will require the ability to discuss openly, influence and cascade. Plan proposals to project sponsors and taking on feedback and additional actions or requests where relevant.
* Produce accurate data records of confirmed scope for all projects, allowing for accurate implementation across implementation and modular build teams.
* Work across several format types and project workstreams, from superstores to convenience, single store projects to multiple site projects, building on various skillsets for each.
“Let's find out about you.”
* You will be able to manage your own workload, being able to prioritise projects and ad-hoc requests where necessary, ensuring project milestones are achieved.
* You will have a keen eye for detail, ensuring the detail shared with the wider team is off the highest standard.
* You will have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written and be confident presenting your work.
* Have data analytics skills to identify trends.
* You must have the ability to adapt to significant change and challenges, finding creative ways to overcome barriers.
* Computer literate – with good experience of MS Excel and Powerpoint.
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
* Discretionary company bonus
* Company pension up to 7% matched
* 15% colleague discount in store and online
* Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
* Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
* Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves
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