Analyst Associate, Space Planning

Analyst Associate, Merchandising Strategy

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About the Company

Since our founding in 1931, Giant Eagle, Inc. has evolved into one of the top 40 largest private corporations in the U.S. and one of the country's largest food retailers and distributors. With more than 37,000 Team Members and $9.7billion in revenue, we are committed to investing in people, technology, and data to elevate our customer's experience across multiple touchpoints. It helps us follow on our commitment to serving others and improving our communities.

About Giant Eagle Bangalore

The Giant Eagle GCC in Bangalore is our global capability center. Our team of more than 350 members at the GCC enables us to expand internal capabilities in the areas such as data analytics, merchandising and eCommerce, quality engineering, and automation to generate insights for faster decision-making and help us accelerate our business strategy. Our team in India plays a pivotal role in helping the company transition to new ways of working by redefining the food and grocery shopping experience for over 4.6 million customers.

Job Description Summary:

The primary function of this role is to create and maintain planograms across multiple lines of business to ensure that new items are added, discontinued items are removed, and the planograms are merchandised in a manner that meets customers' needs and strategic objectives. Merch Ops Analysts are expected to incorporate various reports and feedback from multiple parties into their decision-making process. Characteristics of strong Merch Ops Analysts include- eagerness to seek out information, ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, possess a willingness to learn, and have a great attention to detail.

Key responsibilities

• Create and maintain planograms to support business initiatives and meet deadlines
• Analyze retail and market level data to develop planogram schematics utilizing Space planning software platform
• Own the project with planograms execution as key activity and consistently monitoring and working towards the deadline
• Utilize multiple reports in decision-making process and maintain routine project specific reports
• Assist U.S.-based and India-based team members if necessary
• Build a deep understanding of Space Planning processes and look for opportunities to enhance them
• Run SQL queries as needed
• Attend regular meetings with team and additional meetings as required with cross functional teams
• Learn and utilize different systems, primarily Space Planning (space planning software)
• Answer questions pertaining to planograms from the reset teams in the

Merchandising Functions

• Space planning -Work on Cut in &Reset project, Planogram related reporting, publish planograms, Work on process improvements, also area to be explored for GEB GCC

Critical Attributes

• Time Management
• Project Management
• Global Partnership
• Able to handle multiple tasks
• Influencing
• Prioritization and sense of urgency
• Critical thinking / problem solving
• Communication and keeping on point
• Relationship management
• Action oriented

Desired qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree/ master's degree- Business fields of study
• 1+ years of experience in a Micro space planning role
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Proficient Microsoft Office, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint
• Good to have SQL Developer knowledge
• Demonstrate ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple compelling priorities and projects

Others

• Strong Retail knowledge
• Strong business understanding and know-how; connect the dots and translate the 'why