Assistant Range Planner (12 Month FTC/Secondment) in Redditch

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience—from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.

The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.

We’re looking for an Assistant Range Planner to join our Range Planning team—an exciting, hands-on role at the heart of how our products come to life in stores. In this collaborative position, you’ll work closely with Buying, Marketing, Supply, Store Development and Retail Operations to shape the ideal range and promotional structure.

You’ll help define the right balance of Good, Better, Best products and promotional offers, translating these into clear visual plans that show how products should be positioned on shelves and displays to maximise sales and elevate the customer experience. You’ll also play a key role in delivering our range change and promotional programmes, ensuring new ranges are communicated accurately, aligned to store performance, and launched on time to a “Right First Time” standard. This role supports our full retail estate of 370 stores, giving you the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across Halfords.

Key responsibilities:

• Creating planograms in Spaceman using the core principles agreed with the Range Planner, including SKU lists, stock policies and merchandising criteria.
• Collaborating with the Point of Sale “POS” team to ensure all planograms include the correct point of sale materials.
• Building and setting up planograms in the Test Bed for review with key stakeholders.
• Maintaining accurate and consistent data within Spaceman to ensure planogram integrity.
• Working with the Macro Space team to schedule and agree planogram uploads in line with go live dates.
• Responding to store queries relating to planograms, resolving issues or escalating when needed.
• Supporting the ongoing management of the Test Bed by ensuring: Stock can be booked in and out by all relevant teams; Usage rotas are maintained and training sessions or sign-offs are scheduled appropriately; The environment is kept clean, organised and aligned to agreed standards; Stock levels are regularly audited and managed.

About you:

• Retail experience is desirable, though not essential.
• Highly diligent with excellent attention to detail.
• Genuine passion for visual merchandising and creating impactful displays.
• Experience using Spaceman or other space planning software is desirable but not essential.
• Experience with Microsoft packages e.g. Excel is desirable but not essential.

A fair and competitive salary evaluated against market data, annual discretionary bonus scheme, pension, life assurance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave. Commitment and dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We help you to own and grow your potential so you can be at your best in your current role and to support your future career aspirations.

We offer hybrid working in our Support Centre, you will be based at our Support Centre 2 days a week with an optional 3 days working from home. This role needs flexibility to go into stores when required. You will have access to a wealth of employee discounts across the Halfords suite of products and services.

Wellbeing and inclusion are at the heart of our colleague experience. We offer resources and ongoing support to enhance your wellbeing at work and active Colleague Networks supporting inclusion initiatives across Halfords.

Not sure you meet all the criteria? We’d encourage you to take the wheel and apply anyway! At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family.

At Halfords, we operate a hybrid working policy with 2 days on site at our Support Centre in Redditch.