Store Planner

Our Store Planners sit within our Property function and are pivotal to planning all retail change ensuring our stores are fit for our customers. You will be accountable for the end-to-end planning of changes to our stores, this will include new stores, store enhancement projects and roll outs of change to our store environments. You will be responsible for managing your own workload, managing stakeholder communication and expectations throughout the lifecycle of change and ensuring that plans are delivered to a high standard with a level of detail that ensures smooth delivery of change projects. We have a fantastic team of experienced store planners to support and assist you throughout. The role will require travel across the UK as required to ensure smooth and effective delivery of larger projects as well as regular days in our Home Office to collaborate with wider stakeholder teams. We work in a fast-paced environment, reinventing store space to ensure its fit for the future and reflective of our ambitious growth plans. You’ll work closely with store design and implementation teams, bringing concepts and initiatives to life through collaborative working whilst being comfortable with changing priorities and ambiguity.

You Will:

• Produce sales floor plans that reflect the brief instructed by project sponsor, ensuring project model and customer requirements are consistently met. The plans allow for accurate delivery via our implementation teams.
• Follow model design guides issued by the model specification team to ensure all plans align to our technical requirements and allow for safe, legal & compliant implementation.
• Follow flows and adjacencies models as issued by our commercial teams to ensure a consistent experience for customers and colleagues that maximise sales opportunities.
• Check store specific space data to ensure all plans meet our strategic and commercial space requirements.
• Where it is not possible to achieve all the above, identify potential solutions that mitigate the customer, operational or commercial risk to allow the project to progress.
• Work closely with scheme sponsor to develop the scope for Store Change, undertaking store visits and attending Retail Engagement sessions.
• Present all store 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.
• Ensure all implemented plans are updated on master plans for future records, increasing accuracy of any future projects for impacted stores.
• 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 highest drawing standards are met to service our internal and external stakeholders.
• You will have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written and be confident presenting your work to both internal and external stakeholders.
• You must have the ability to adapt to significant change and challenges, finding creative ways to overcome barriers.
• Experience in Space Planning is preferable – ideally in a Retail setting – with the ability to visualise physical space from a 2D plan.
• Experience in AutoCAD is preferable, but training will be given.
• Computer literate – with good experience of MS Excel.

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.